Does anyone know how to safely remove the chiclet key on the keyboard?

Does anyone know how safely to remove the chiclet key on the keyboard?

 

You are quite obsessed with your F button. Did you take your keyboard out to check the bottom? And please stop calling it a Chiclet keyboard. Everytime I read Chiclet keyboard, I know it's you posting. It is just a laptop keyboard with scissor switches. Chiclet keyboards are square rubber keys like on cheap 1980s computers and calculators that resemble chewing gum.

Chiclet Keyboard:


If you want to remove your F key, google how to remove keys from a scissor switch.



All you need is a small screwdriver or any other small, hard object that you can use as a lever. Start at the top left of the key, pry it up gently, then pull backwards until the key twitches slightly. That's the keycap connected to the scissor-switch. You want to pop the keycap off and leave the spring below in place. Pry upwards gently, and the keycap should come lose. If not, try pulling the screwdriver a bit farther up (you need to by prying on the last tiny bit of the keycap.).

After that, do the same thing on the left corner too, and the keycap should just pop off. Note the two little clips on the bottom of the upside down keycap above -- those are what you are trying to detach. Check the spring below (it should be connected on the two top corners).

 

Some keyboard hate? Did you read the Wiki you most likely took that picture from? The following is quoted from the Wiki:

I don't see how that doesn't match the set of pictures you've provided.

Nonetheless, thanks for the guide.

 

The previous meaning was in usage for 30 years more than the new appropriation. Regardless, there is only one keyboard for the new Clevos. It's just the keyboard and the keys. There is no need to specify chiclet in either case. The accurate description if you want to talk about how the keys function would be scissor switch key. And yes, I am a keyboard fanatic. I wish we could get mechanical cherry or buckling spring keys on a laptop.

I apologize for my terseness but others have noted he has posted and crossposted in multiple threads and started multiple topics in the spans of a few short days about his F button on his chiclet keyboard. I don't blame him I suppose, I would find it rather annoying to have something wrong with my laptop...oh wait, my D key came with paint chipped off it and I have a dead pixel like piece of dirt sandwiched in my screen. Doh!

 

If this existed in a laptop, I'd be right there in line with you. Even decent mechanical keyboards for desktops are tough to find. The form factor in a laptop just doesn't lend itself to these keys though. They're too bulky for a laptop frame.

 

To each their own. I bought a cheap Radioshack/Nexxtech scissor-key keyboard and I love it. Now I much prefer scissor keys for gaming.
I have never tried cherry or buckling spring keys, although I've read a lot about them. I may prefer those if I had experienced them.

 

thanks electric shock i just want to know whats under it and hopefully find out why its slightly raised


also.. looks like thats a macbook, just wondering if all chiclet keyboards are standard in design?

 

Pretty sure they are as far as this scissor style spring.