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Robbedoes
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I'm trying to build a mechanical keyboard with screw in stabilizers, I've build some mechanical keyboards with click-in stabilizers, never with screw in. Somehow one of the pins of the metal top-part collides with the screw in stabilizer of the numpad "enter key". I already tried grinding of a bit of the pin that collides with the stabilizer, but unfortunately I can't make it fit/close properly. You can see that the pin of the toppart leaves a mark on the bottompart of the stabilizer, see picture 2. What am I missing? Using Durock V2 in a Dropshift fullsize V2. See pictures below, thanks in advance!
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Durazell
Want to build a Clicky Mech Keyboard. Where to begin?
Hello all. Am brand new to the idea of building my own keyboard. Have not a clue where to begin this process. I am a Sim Game enthusiast. American Truck Sim, DCS Flight Sim and goes from there. Need some real help on where to start for making my own Full Size, Clickey Mechanical KB. I want each key to have its own backlighting. Are there keys that are better than others for this? Is there a great spot on site for a person who has never even taken a keyboard apart? Let alone fixed or built one? I would like it to fit my theme of Red and Black. Yet maybe have the option of changing things up a bit. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Thank you all kindly, Durazell
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My impressions after a week or so now with it are as follows:
1) Construction is solid, yet notably cheaper than the v60 minis or pokers. 2) The stock keycaps (non-dye sub) are junk mostly - not the worst keycaps I've seen but definitely the worst PBT caps I've seen. For the price though I can't complain. 3) The gateron switches I got (red) took a bit to get used to but are every bit as comfortable to type on as cherry mx reds. 4) The programming process was a bit difficult at first - thankfully there are some great people on this discussion and over at keychatter who helped a great deal. Once you get the hang of it, it's pretty nice - and the programmed keys and layers respond perfectly (like the board just came that way). I really liked that you could add as many layers as you want (just give yourself a consistent way to switch back within each layer).
5) An odd thing I found was the stabilizers are like costar but not the standard costar I'm used to seeing. It makes getting those keys back on a little more difficult and different keycaps can stick - seemingly because of these stabilizers.
Overall it's incredible value to me for the price I paid. They keycaps were a disappointment but I soon replaced those with some v60 mini caps and it looks and feels a lot better. Still fighting with the stabilizers on one shift key (causes it to stick) though.
Also, can anyone else confirm the stabilizer issue? I have quite a few different keycap sets and it would be disappointing if any of them don't fit right. Do you have some pictures of the stabilizer problem? Do you think it's an easy fix?
Thanks for helping! Hopefully I can cancel my order in time if the issues are serious.
I'll see if I can put up a pic of the stabilizers sometime tomorrow if not today. The only experience I have with costar stabilizers is with a WASD V1 (first mech I had - the rest have all been cherry stabilizers). On the WASD, the stabilizer bars were straight and snapped onto plastic clips on the plate from the top and they move freely 180 degrees on top of the plate. On the KC60, the stabilizers are bent on the long side so it forms a tab of sorts. The bent parts snap onto plastic clips from the side (facing bottom) and can only move about 45 degrees off their resting spot. This just makes it hard to get a keycap back on without taking the stabilizer off the clip, attaching the keycap, then getting a tool of some sort to push the stabilizer bar back into its clips while positioning the keycap correctly. You could take out the clips and do the whole assembly that way I suppose, but I doubt it would be easier - and the clips are really in there (unlike the WASD I had where they came out when i pulled the keycap off sometimes).
All that being said - I replaced all my keycaps with cherry mx caps and they all worked fine - the one shift key sticks a bit due to the stabilizer I think but I'm working with it. If you have cherry mx keycaps, I doubt you'll have too many issues getting them on.