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Offline Half-Saint

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Goupil G80-1861 stem & spring swap!
« 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!





Along the way I also enhanced CeeSa's method of popping-open Cherry switches (see vid). All you need is a flat-head precision screwdriver.



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

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Goupil G80-1861 stem & spring swap!
« Reply #1 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.
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Offline Half-Saint

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Goupil G80-1861 stem & spring swap!
« Reply #2 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
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