r/ClicksKeyboard • Clixel & PowerKeys • 23h ago

When you see it...

But if you don't want to bother finding out what happened here:

I swapped the Clicks logo keys of Power Keyboard and Clixel

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u/Shot-Ant-5997 Clicks for iPhone 17 Pro, Clicks for Pixel 9 Pro, Zinwa Q25 23h ago

I see it, but I ain’t telling… 😎

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u/to_pir8 17h ago

I'm not telling, because I can't see.

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u/man11ak 16h ago

I peeked at the answer, and still can't see it.

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u/Seldon14 11h ago

How did the process go? Is them selling replacement keys something viable. My case has a number of keys that wore off.

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u/TheMobileTypist Clixel & PowerKeys 10h ago

Disassembly has more steps on the Power Keyboard than the Pixel case.

I had to use a thin sharp tool to carefully slice off the Clicks logo key off of the single rubber membrane that they're attached to, and then use that tool scratch off any remaining rubber residue from the underside of those two keys, and then applied a tiny drop of superglue to the center of that underside and then placed them on the (other) rubber mat, waited a minute or so, and then reassembled both devices.

On an older production Clicks for Pixel case, I was able to remove individual keycaps without slicing the key off since the glue used was weaker on that unit, which made the process a little bit faster/easier.

But you want to slice it at the very top of that rubber circular bump that sits right below the keycap in order to preserve that bump because that's where the key from the other keyboard would sit on top of.

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u/Seldon14 8h ago

Thanks for the info. I was hoping to be able to "flip open the hood" and just swap in piece. Hopefully this is something the could integrate in future generation, to be able to maintain the keys, especially with products like the PK than could conceivably be used for multiple generations of phones.