Lost a Keycap, Need Advice on Replacement Keycap Set

[Hairless Monkey Boy]

I lost my keycap for "K" while I was cleaning my keycaps and keyboard. I spent about 20 minutes wandering around looking for it saying, "Oh "K", where are you...?". But apparently is fell into the abyss. For now I'm using a spare "K" from an old keyboard.

 

 

I need help picking out a new set of keycaps for my Corsair Strafe RGB. I want something that will feel nice, but I'm no enthusiast, so I don't need top-of-the-line.

 

From my research it looks like I want double shot Backlit PBT, but beyond that I'm pretty clueless. These are two sets that I was looking at:

 

https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_detail&p=5233

 

https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_detail&p=5790

 

Any advice on what stores I should look at, or other properties I should be looking for, or a straight up recommendation for a particular keycap set would be great.

 

I'm in the US and I'd rather spend $100 or less.

 

Thanks!

[DoctorNick]

Did you vacuum the keyboard? Then maybe that answers the question

 

Your keyboard uses standard cherry keycaps, so something like this would work: https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1330 

[Hairless Monkey Boy]

4 minutes ago, DoctorNick said:

Did you vacuum the keyboard?

Nope.

 

Thanks for the recommendation, though.

[Dissitesuxba11s]

Neither of those will work since the Corsair Strafe's bottom row (Ctrl, Windows, Alt...) is not conventional.

Source: https://www.maxkeyboard.com/mechanical-keycap-layout-and-size-chart.html

You would need specific ones that fit your keyboard. Max Keyboards allows you to design your own keycap set or pick a set that's already available, and it can be had for under $100. Just make sure it's compatible with the Strafe.

[Hairless Monkey Boy]

5 minutes ago, Dissitesuxba11s said:

Neither of those will work since the Corsair Strafe's bottom row (Ctrl, Windows, Alt...) is not conventional.

Yeah, I just now came to that conclusion, myself.

 

Thanks for the link!

[Hairless Monkey Boy]

In case anyone is in a similar position as me, I ended up going with these.

 

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08CB8D2YB/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

 

They check all the boxes.

 

 Price

 PBT

 Doubleshot

 Backlit

 Compatibility

 

And I think they look great, we'll see how they feel.

 

Many of the reviews claim that the product is not compatible with Corsair keyboards, but I think those reviewers bought the wrong item, because there are recent reviews that claim and show the keys installed with no issue. And you can see in the image that it comes with a 6.5u version of the bottom row. From one of the reviews:

 

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91XQEllhxCS.mp4

 

I'll update this comment when they arrive on Thursday.

 

Edit:

 

It's compatible and it looks great. I like the texture of the keycaps. They are obviously of lower quality than other options, but for the price I'm pretty pleased.