I didn't expect this!

Scania · 10 Apr 2022 at 18:23

Nice result OP!

Begbie said:
Got to be £150+ of profit there. Nice!

No profiteering in the Members Market

humbug said:
Mmmm Minty

Nice work.

I'm waiting for this horror to arrive, for £4,20.... i have masks, rubber gloves, a screwdriver, bucket and lots of washing-up liquid.

Great result if you clean it and it works, so long as you don’t catch the Black Death cleaning it….

Phatzy · 11 Apr 2022 at 09:33

I hope to see it working and cleaned too.

Deleted member 77746 · 11 Apr 2022 at 09:38

Should have licked it. Would have known for sure if it was toothpaste.

Deleted member 77746 · 11 Apr 2022 at 09:38

humbug said:
Mmmm Minty

Nice work.

I'm waiting for this horror to arrive, for £4,20.... i have masks, rubber gloves, a screwdriver, bucket and lots of washing-up liquid.

The dirty little rats. How can anyone let their keyboard get that bad!

jaybee · 11 Apr 2022 at 10:09

Nice work op. Something warm and fuzzy about injecting a new lease of life into worn out components and things.

humbug said:
Mmmm Minty

Nice work.

I'm waiting for this horror to arrive, for £4,20.... i have masks, rubber gloves, a screwdriver, bucket and lots of washing-up liquid.

Post the results when you do the work! Be interested to see. awesome deal. Was that fb market place or something you got that from?

Phatzy · 11 Apr 2022 at 22:03

Bouton Aide said:
Should have licked it. Would have known for sure if it was toothpaste.

That is just nasty :eek:

drakulton · 11 Apr 2022 at 22:07

jaybee said:
Nice work op. Something warm and fuzzy about injecting a new lease of life into worn out components and things./QUOTE]

The keyboard already looks warm and fuzzy as it is.

Phatzy · 11 Apr 2022 at 22:14

humbug said:
It is but it will also clean up, its just a bit of work stripping it down and cleaning it, all the key caps come off, the back and top will come apart, put everything but the PCB in some warm soapy water and give it a good scrub it will come up nice and clean.

Its a £150 Keyboard.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cors...yboard-cherry-mx-red-uk-layout-kb-0a2-cs.html

Have you got your hazmat suit ready, did you get your box of bacteria today?

Ravenger · 11 Apr 2022 at 22:27

I spilt coffee on my K70 (non RGB), and it caused a few keys to continually register phantom presses, but I cleaned the affected switches with isopropyl alcohol, pressed the switches loads of times and eventually it started working properly again. Saved me having to by a new one at over £100.

My keyboard is pretty dirty (I really should take all the caps off and clean it, but that one above is right out of a horror movie. Good luck cleaning it!

subbytna · 12 Apr 2022 at 09:15

Did the keyboard arrive? How bad was it

Deleted member 77746 · 14 Apr 2022 at 07:06

Phatzy said:
That is just nasty

Phatzy · 20 Apr 2022 at 20:09

Yep the cello tape fell apart so elastic bands it is.

What was left of the original fans

Backplate is scratched a lot. Screws are mismatch and only 3 original screws around the chip. (if anyone got Sapphire screws please let me know)

As you can see some bent fins.

More bent fins.

Bent IO plate.

Don't ask! I don't have clue lol.

Some caps I had to solder back on. thermal pad basically fell a part.

Shroud melted back together using heat gun.

New fans arrived from a well known Chinese app.

Just noticeable.

Looking decent I suppose.

Pretty silent for cheap knock off fans.

Temps slightly better than the 2 120mm fans I had strapped to it.

So in all this cost me £27.50 for the Sapphire Nitro+ RX580 8GB

gpuerrilla · 20 Apr 2022 at 20:43

Would say apart from the abuse and utter chav-like previous ownership trail, a worthy punt and well done on getting it back running again!

Phatzy · 20 Apr 2022 at 21:43

gpuerrilla said:
Would say apart from the abuse and utter chav-like previous ownership trail, a worthy punt and well done on getting it back running again!

Tempted to repaint the backplate to glossy black :cry:

gpuerrilla · 20 Apr 2022 at 21:45

Phatzy said:
Tempted to repaint the backplate to glossy black

robinbanks · 20 Apr 2022 at 23:52

That's nuts :eek:

same for Hambug.

Glad the hard work paid off. I wonder what made them use toothpaste? Made they miss understood the advert saying cool on the box

humbug · 22 Apr 2022 at 18:11

jaybee said:
Nice work op. Something warm and fuzzy about injecting a new lease of life into worn out components and things.

Post the results when you do the work! Be interested to see. awesome deal. Was that fb market place or something you got that from?

Sorry for the delay on this, a little bit of a delay on sending it, i've started cleaning it, it is pretty bad but it works, needs a new space bar, about £8 on bay... i'll post some pics tomorrow when its back in one piece.

humbug · 22 Apr 2022 at 18:18

Phatzy said:
Yep the cello tape fell apart so elastic bands it is.

What was left of the original fans

Backplate is scratched a lot. Screws are mismatch and only 3 original screws around the chip. (if anyone got Sapphire screws please let me know)

As you can see some bent fins.

More bent fins.

Bent IO plate.

Don't ask! I don't have clue lol.

Some caps I had to solder back on. thermal pad basically fell a part.

Shroud melted back together using heat gun.

New fans arrived from a well known Chinese app.

Just noticeable.

Looking decent I suppose.

Pretty silent for cheap knock off fans.

Temps slightly better than the 2 120mm fans I had strapped to it.

So in all this cost me £27.50 for the Sapphire Nitro+ RX580 8GB

Its like new, good job.

Phatzy · 22 Apr 2022 at 20:24

humbug said:
Sorry for the delay on this, a little bit of a delay on sending it, i've started cleaning it, it is pretty bad but it works, needs a new space bar, about £8 on bay... i'll post some pics tomorrow when its back in one piece.

Can't wait to see

Tetras · 22 Apr 2022 at 20:34

Phatzy said:
So in all this cost me £27.50 for the Sapphire Nitro+ RX580 8GB

Wow, nice job you did there, bargain!