corsair Replacement PCB board for Corsair K70 | Tea Spill

[Adyel]

Hey guys,

I got this Corsair K70 (RED switch) a few years back. Because of conversion rate, shipping, etc . . . I had to pay around $180. Last year, accidentally I spilled some milk tea on the left side of the keyboard (Point to be noted, it's very sticky when dried up). Immediately I disassembled my keyboard and cleaned it as best I could. It worked fine for 3 months . . . Then some switch on the left side started giving up. Left Ctrl, Windows, Alt stopped working. The switches were actually OK (I tested with a multimeter) but keys were not registering. So I paid local repair guy ~ $20 to "fix it". He said the contact was rusting and it was causing the trouble. So, he rewired the Left Crtl, Windows, Alt with Right Ctrl, Windows, Alt. Another month passed by. Everything was fine and dandy. Then suddenly all the bottom key got shorted (my guess). It was like I was mashing the bottom row keys. I stopped using it for a while (~ 1.5 weeks) and it fixed itself and worked perfectly fine for a week or two before the issue reappeared. This is a continuous cycle. If I don't use it for a while it fixes itself and then stops working again after a day or two.

 

From my understanding, this looks like a PCB issue. It pains me greatly to throw away ~$200 like that. It's a great keyboard and I still want to use it. I looked for aftermarket PCB but could not find any. Although there are many custom PCB available on the internet, I could not find any that could be used as a drop-in replacement. Considering how popular K70 is, I was a bit shocked.
 

Is there any hope? Do you have any suggestion? Please, let me  know. Also sorry for shitty bad English.

 

[seon123]

Have you tried contacting Corsair at any point? You could ask them if you could RMA or get some replacement parts. I have extreme doubts that they offer the PCB by itself, though. At best, I assume they just have the keycaps, which obviously won't help. 

[Adyel]

On 7/24/2019 at 3:35 AM, seon123 said:

Have you tried contacting Corsair at any point? You could ask them if you could RMA or get some replacement parts. I have extreme doubts that they offer the PCB by itself, though. At best, I assume they just have the keycaps, which obviously won't help.  

Unfortunately, Corsair does not sell product here officially. If I want to get anything I have to order it from USA. I contacted them before for another keyboard of mine. They said to  send it back to them, they will send a replacement. But it was not possible / practical because of the shipping cost.