Tricky soldering with new Kailh MX Sockets

[hmngwy]

The new Kailh MX sockets have this reinforced back solder pad, when you try to solder it in, because of the required angle to reach the socket's pad, you may end up accidentally hitting a diode's joint if they're already soldered in.

For new builds this can be avoided by soldering sockets first before diodes, however, if you end up needing to fix a socket's pad with a diode already present next to it you may encounter this issue.

Moving the diode on the Y axis may also help this issue.

[duckyb]

Can you share a link to this kind of sockets? I'm unfamiliar

[hmngwy]

Can you share a link to this kind of sockets? I'm unfamiliar

http://m.kailhswitch.com/mechanical-keyboard-switches/box-switches/kailh-new-mx-hot-swap-socket.html