K552

If it's older stock it may have those awful round sockets and been sitting in a non-airconditioned warehouse in southern China for years before shipping out. The sockets and switches gently corrode until they are one with each other. I pulled a switch in half getting it out of a socket like that. I

Edit: every time i say stem, it's the metal pins. It is hotswappable, but the socket is not cherrymx style, it's outemu which uses thinner stems. If you wanna install cherry style switches you need to trim the stems or desolder the sockets. Instead of having proper sockets it just has some really so

The Redragon k552 has those horrible little round sockets, it's also a very old board and when you get one it may have been sitting in a non-air-conditioned warehouse in South China for most of a decade before it got on a ship for delivery. I had one and gave it away when I realized that it would ta