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Title: Goupil G80-1861 stem & spring swap!
Post by: Half-Saint on Mon, 31 January 2011, 12:33:58

I bought the board recently thanks to a friendly geekhacker who published the link in the Great finds forum. Anyway, I liked the board but I wanted to see, if I could do the stem and spring swap. To do that, I bought a donor G80-1000 with Cherry blues and here are the results!

(http://www.shrani.si/t/7/KE/31TfqWXv/goupiltransform.jpg) (http://www.shrani.si/?7/KE/31TfqWXv/goupiltransform.jpg)

(http://www.shrani.si/t/1p/qz/23BPPHvE/goupilmxblue.jpg) (http://www.shrani.si/?1p/qz/23BPPHvE/goupilmxblue.jpg)

Along the way I also enhanced CeeSa's method (http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:12790) of popping-open Cherry switches (see vid). All you need is a flat-head precision screwdriver.

http://vimeo.com/19399272

I'm gonna use the keycaps from 7bit for this board.

Title: Goupil G80-1861 stem & spring swap!
Post by: Ascaii on Mon, 31 January 2011, 14:29:22

looking real good!
So thats what you wanted the 1000 for^^.

I love compact boards with blues. Maybe i should do this to one of my 1800s as well.

Title: Goupil G80-1861 stem & spring swap!
Post by: Half-Saint on Tue, 01 February 2011, 00:41:54

Thanks! I added a how-to video for the stem swap, check it out! :)

With this method you can easily swap the stems for switches with stabilizers as well.

Cheers
SainT