This has happened to me with several keys now, I put it down to skimping on manufacturing and shaving a bit of the underside of the keys so the supporting areas are brittle. Looking at this it's quite common, and could be considered a manufacturing defect, or a batch issue during production.
I have come up with a solution to this problem. If you manage to save the bits, a small dab of super glue and some bicarbonate of soda sprinkled on to reinforce the stem. Just make sure you don't get glue inside the +. I do this by resting the broken bits in place then dabbing super glue on the barrel part of the + then sprinkle bicarbonate of soda on it to dry fast and add some reinforcement material.
It's worked for all the caps I have managed to save the bits for.
Also, this has nothing to do with the way a person types as I have has many cherry MX keyboards and this is the only one to break like this.
Mine is a CH-9101010-UK K70 RGB LUX Cherry MX Red.
I previously had a K70 with Cherry Red with single colour LEDs and that was fine with no broken keycaps.
3 broken keycaps, need solution
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This has happened to me with several keys now, I put it down to skimping on manufacturing and shaving a bit of the underside of the keys so the supporting areas are brittle. Looking at this it's quite common, and could be considered a manufacturing defect, or a batch issue during production.
I have come up with a solution to this problem. If you manage to save the bits, a small dab of super glue and some bicarbonate of soda sprinkled on to reinforce the stem. Just make sure you don't get glue inside the +. I do this by resting the broken bits in place then dabbing super glue on the barrel part of the + then sprinkle bicarbonate of soda on it to dry fast and add some reinforcement material.
It's worked for all the caps I have managed to save the bits for.
Also, this has nothing to do with the way a person types as I have has many cherry MX keyboards and this is the only one to break like this.
Mine is a CH-9101010-UK K70 RGB LUX Cherry MX Red.
I previously had a K70 with Cherry Red with single colour LEDs and that was fine with no broken keycaps.