Ortarco Keycap Puller for Mechanical Keyboard Stainless Steel Keycap Remover Tool Fixing Keyboard Black

Dirty mechanical keyboard? Take a picture of it, pop out the keys, bath them in water and soap, dry them, and put them back according to picture. It makes removing keys a breath. Worth the 5$.

The media could not be loaded. Okay, so, you're probably wondering why this is a few dollars, and why you should bother wasting your money on this.1. its not wasting your money, if its saving you time and irritability to remove some simple-hard-to-reach key2. the features of this product is that ability to easily, with one or two hands, remove a key almost effortlessly.3. You're not gonna find many, if not, better, key cap remover than this one.Tip: I'm right handed, but I found removing keys with my left hand while holding the keyboard with my right, makes for easy removal.Tip: If you want to clean your keyboard, you need something like this.Tip: If you're mechanical keyboard is to loud, or if you're tired of the click-clacks, than you need O Ring Silencers. Trust me, you'll fall in love.

This is wide enough to fit completely around the edges of 1U tall keycaps, so it makes it much easier to jiggle loose keys like Caps, Tab, Shift, etc. without having to do them one side at a time. The downside to that is that when you're popping off the square(ish) keycaps (letters, numbers, etc.) it doesn't "hold" them very well and they can go flying all over the place.The switch puller doesn't rebound back to its original position, and has to be bent back into place after 30 switches or so, but otherwise works just fine.

pretty easy to use

I had a squeaky space bar. A quick online search showed that some "Super lube" put in the right place can (and did) fix it.This tool (with prime) was so cheap to not risk messing up with a couple of paperclips.Pros:- the tools works well (hint for space bar, remove the alt keys using the "2 loops" end. Same as 2 paperclips method, just easier. Then use the other "hook" end, and slide it to the middle of the bar, and pull straight.- did I mention the price?Cons:- if I had to do an entire keyboard, I think the tool would last, but it seems fragile enough to not be a tool for a repair shop / IT repair tech.Overall, I recommend that over any paperclips (or worst some screw driver, pliers...), as this will NOT mark or damage your keys.

Just a little bit more than what you get with keyboards but it makes a huge difference when pulling switches.

I used it for a recent keyboard project that I painted and swapped cherry reds to kailh speed coppers. It does the job but I'm a bit worried about the build quality. Specifically the prongs designed to pull out the key switches; it's already uneven and will probably come apart sooner than later.Decent purchase, will hopefully never have to update that the keyswitch puller part broke. But I will (if necessary) just so that future purchasers know what to expect.EDIT Jan 2021:Upgraded from 4/5 to 5/5 because it has held up well this entire time and is even still my preferred keycap AND switch puller over those green ones that have begun to rise in popularity. I bought one of those and they are too thick and struggle pulling out my switches without scratching my switch plate. So, if you're looking for a combo puller this is a great one to have.

The part for pulling keys up is pretty loose and tends to wobble around a bit. Once you pull the keycap up it's actually very easy for it to just fall out if you're not careful (and according to the laws of the universe, a dropped object while you're working on something will bounce ten times, fly ten feet across the floor, and go up under something.) Also, the description kind of made me believe that the keycap puller would stretch all the way across really wide keys like 2.5u or even maybe spacebar keys, however, it does not. For large keys you have to slide across the top and bottom (which usually is harder than the sides if they aren't flat) and pull at one edge of the keycap instead of the whole thing. Those little plastic keycap pullers still work a lot better for larger keys definitely.The switch puller part is pretty good though. I think it could have a bit of a sharper edge to it to slide under a bit more easily, but all in all it works pretty well. I can't imagine there being much better on the market really for switch pulling, but it is a very simple task overall. This will definitely beat out just using pliers or something so I definitely recommend it or one like it for that.Overall I'd say the plastic keycap pullers are probably best for keycaps. I would suggest buying this really mainly just as a switch puller (and it's definitely better than a plastic switch puller) rather than as a keycap puller.