Keyboard Tips & Tricks - Volume 1
CTRL + F to quickly skip to each tip/trick below: Tip #1 - Cheap Dust Cover (Shower Caps) Tip #2 - Upgrade Your Wire Keycap Puller to Plastic Tip #3 - Test Your PCB/QC Your Board Before Building Soldering-Specific: Tip #4 - Take Your Time. Set Yourself up for Soldering Success Tip #5 - Using the Right Size Soldering Tip Tip #6 - Soldering Loose Switches/Plateless Builds - Rubber Bands Tip #7 - Fixing Crooked Switches After Soldering Extra Tip - Test Your PCB After Soldering… BEFORE You Put Away Your Soldering Equipment Intro & Disclaimer A recent mistake. Mixed three sets of beige PBT keycap sets and spent a good while having to separate everything... “I wish I had known about this sooner…” I can’t tell you the amount of times that I’ve said those words out loud, or thought about them when it comes to the keyboard hobby. Whether it’s what someone in the community has told me, or something I found out myself, even things that may seem so simple as using...
Mar 11, 2025
I'm not fazed, I just want you to confirm my understanding of what the current situation is.
I apologize for the comments about MDs lack of ability to ship but there is a serious issue with getting information to the people. It took you guys a week to let us know that the printed and blank keycaps weren't shipped? What did you guys do when you got the shipment? Just curious because when I get a package I typically open it and confirm it's correct. Maybe I am the oddball or just raging cause I haven't had my coffee but either way I think MD should make a vow not to go through KBT again and possibly reform some of their update policies.
We contact the manufacturer and try to sort out what's wrong, why it's wrong, and is it getting fixed quickly or not. Often we receive things that are sent in separate packages and it's just about waiting a few days for the second box to arrive.
Unfortunately the salespeople we talk to generally aren't the same people who process the order and ship it, and we aren't the only order- so as usual, we play the game of broken telephone (in English and Mandarin). We just heard the resolution that A) they weren't shipped, B) they're not on the way. Hence, we can give you semi-complete information.
I wish it was that easy to "ban" manufacturers/wholesalers that don't "play nice". Almost every distributor that we deal with has strange/annoying/vague payment/shipment and delivery terms. Vortex has however been considerably worse than others.