I thought you meant “left it in the trunk”… Oh damn.
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Just put in some rice. 
{I’m helping}
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-has stab housing the correct orientation
-looks away for a fraction of a second
-installs on wire the wrong way
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Soldering all hotswap sockets … reversed 
And to later have to file them all to be able to insert the switches…
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Didn’t think this was an option.
Adding it to my repertoire of emergency (cough…janky) fix solutions.
Wanted to cut a plate but decided that I wanted to solder first… Now a stab won’t work because of the little metal bits that flew into the housing.
Pains me that it’s the Backspace key that won’t work. At this rate, I could make an entire list the Backspace key screwed me over :< Maybe “Enter” or “Spacebar” would have been a better name
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Missing Backspace key
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Backspace stab not working
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Ciel full BS no work, using split BS
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Accidentally cut off a diode on the backspace, had to do some black magic to fix
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I did something like that a while back; I think some portion of the case needed a little shaving down or something and I ended up with metal dust inside four or five switches that are now doomed to eternal sandiness. I desoldered and replaced them. 
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I worked for a call center that also handled support calls for a specific manufacturers phone a few years ago. I had once or twice calls from customers wanting replacements for shattered phones like this. Angrily claiming that it only fell “from the table onto a soft carpet”, and that expensive phones should be constructed much more reliable, and similar stuff.
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I repair a bunch of computers and point of sale systems for HP and their clients. I just replaced the SSD in one and I have to reinstall windows so i can test the printer port on a new base for the pos system. Everything turned on except the screen. so i unplugged the connectivity cable and reseated it and no dice. I try everything I can on the outside of the unit and then I finally reopen the main part of it. Guess who forgot to plug in the internal cable to power and display stuff on the screen…
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Does it count if it’s not my mistake? (Don’t worry, I’ve made countless myself, but none of them close to the one I’m going to talk about):
There was this guy selling a Realforce 108UG JS HiPro, one of the rarest and most wanted Topre keyboards out there, which normally go for around 250k yen (~1800€) and he accidentally listed it for 25k (~180€)
I can only feel bad for the guy, but the one who snagged it had the luck of a lottery winner.
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Not a keyboard thing but man, 
Trying to hang up a jewelry cabinet in the closet for my wife. Got it all planned, started the first nail (this was about 7 inches from a corner), and I hit something. Feels like a stud facing the other way because it’s hard but I feel it flex a bit. I hit it hard to drive it in and I see the light in the closet flicker very faintly.
Oh snap!
I pull the nail out and ponder my options. Was it a random coincidence? Did I imagine it?
Now I have to worry that I’ve put a nail through a power line. And every time I’m trying to sleep at night or go on vacation I’m going to imagine my house burning down.
So I got a utility knife and carefully cut a square patch to inspect what was going on.
It was a stud. No wire. Can see right where the nail was just barely in the stud.
So now there’s a 1.5x1.5inch hole in the closet wall. God news is that the cabinet hides it.
Gonna be funny when someone moves that one day.
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The term is “normal software development process”.
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Every project. Every time. 
Welcome to keebtalk!
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Ohhhhhh, rip… 
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Thinking vaseline would do as a stabiliser lube, instead of those expensive lubricants. This left me with a space bar unwilling to raise up again.
However, I solved this issue (literally) with tiny amounts of white spirit (terpentine) on a cotton swap. This corrective “technique” allows one to tether the amount of viscosity to the point of perfection.
Nonetheless, I learned my lesson and I finally ordered some expensive KRYTOX® XHT-BDZ for my upcoming builds.
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Vaseline is petroleum based, so it’s a bad idea for use on plastics in general. It may take a very long time to eat any significant amount of material though, since almost all of the volatiles are removed during production.
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The various keyboard/industrial lubes seem a lot more expensive than they are in practice. I’ve lubed 10 keyboards-worth of stabilizers from one 5 mL jar of Krytox 205g0 and it looks like I haven’t used any lube at all. Unless you’re lubing 1000 switches, this stuff lasts a long time.
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Corsa hotswap PCB. Small connector for screen on the back. Bent a pin. Tried to fix it very carefully, but the pin just fell right the fuck off. No more screen fun for me unless I buy a solder PCB. 
I feel your pain.
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Ouch.