K70RGB keycaps melted

[dtaflorida]

2 hours ago, Justhavocman said:

im finding hard to  believe that someone would lose his calm over an MMO.

You've never played WoW before have you? 

 

ZOMG guild drama...

[Justhavocman]

3 minutes ago, dtaflorida said:

You've never played WoW before have you? 

 

ZOMG guild drama...

active sub since 2005 , we dont have much e-drama in european servers though

[iamdarkyoshi]

I shall summon @Corsair Joseph, not sure why I didnt think of this before

[Corsair Joseph]

I honestly don't know what to make of this. @Justhavocman do you know if your friend spilled a drink on that KB? One thing that I can think of is, he spilled a drink and tries to dry it by using a blow dryer. Or do you know if he sits close to a heater? 

 

ALso, I just showed this thread to our HID team here, they said it's a clear indication of physical damage. 

 

 

[NeverNude]

Looks like someone raged and then tried to get a free keyboard.  Good thing you didn't post this on Reddit.... the backfire would have been real.

 

 

This is why we can't have nice things.

[NumLock21]

powerful leds or cheap plastic caps. 

[Justhavocman]

4 hours ago, Corsair Joseph said:

I honestly don't know what to make of this. @Justhavocman do you know if your friend spilled a drink on that KB? One thing that I can think of is, he spilled a drink and tries to dry it by using a blow dryer. Or do you know if he sits close to a heater? 

 

ALso, I just showed this thread to our HID team here, they said it's a clear indication of physical damage. 

 

 

he's not the person that gets physical with his peripherals , but i will provide further info tomorrow when i inspect the keycaps myself! 

[Falkentyne]

Your friend's lying to you and you believed him.  He trolled the living hell out of you.

 

Keycaps don't break this way under any sort of normal conditions.  It's impossible by the laws of physics.

I've seen this type of "defect" before. 

 

This can happen under one of two conditions:

1) someone tried to use a hairdryer to clean/dry off the keycaps, or the keyboard were exposed too long to a hairdryer (this actually happened by accident to someone).

2) improper chemicals were used to clean the keycaps (this has also happened to someone).

3) keyboard left baking in a hot car in direct sunlight.

 

The only known normal defect with the admittedly substandard keycaps BOTH Corsair and Logitech (G710+) use, are broken stems and the typical worn shiny ABS.

[Digital_]

...I can't even.

[exousia7]

Hooray! Now your friend has a reason to buy new keycaps!

[KaminKevCrew]

I've seen something similar to this before, where someone's friend left their board by a radiator over a weekend, and all of the caps melted. It's a thing that apparently happens with this type of ABS. No idea why, but it's not a unique issue here.

 

@OP, does your friend have a heater/source of heat near his hands when he's gaming? I could see that slowly melting the caps over time.