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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Quarzac on Sun, 11 September 2011, 20:46:15
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From what I've seen, greens are used primarily for spacebars. Is it crazy talk to want an entire board of greens? Mainly because I like the color green.
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The feel of a cherry green is almost = a cherry blue stem with a cherry black spring. So if you took a G80-3000 with blue switches, changed all the springs to black springs from another source, it would feel like a full cherry green keyboard.
Of course if you just want green colored stems you could try to paint the stems. :)
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You sir, understand. I think I will probably just try to paint the stems if WASD ever stocks a darker green. Greens are apparently kind of hard to come by. Although I bet they're pretty cool.
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But... keycaps go over the switches so you can't see the colour anyway?
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Ascaii modded his keyboard to greens:
(http://i.imgur.com/hWqQR.jpg)
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I've been wanting a full board of greens for a while now. Some guy was selling individual ones on deskthority a while back, probably still is.
Just couldn't be bothered learning to solder just to replace 87 key switches, most likely damaging the keyboard permanently.
I doubt ghetto-greens feel like greens, same way that ghetto-reds probably don't feel the exact same as reds.
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If it makes you feel any better I dove in the deep end and put clears in my Filco (and mine has 104 keys!) a while back and I didn't break anything! (have actually been using it at work, and it hasn't hiccupped on me yet) So it can be done... Now I did have some previous soldering experience from restoring old cars, but this was the first serious work I'd done involving PCBs.
Also, rather than buying a whole set of greens, you could just buy a POS keyboard with clears or blacks and harvest the springs for "ghetto greens" - would likely be much less expensive, although slightly more labor intensive (you'd have to put the heavier springs in your existing Filco switch bodies...
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I've been wanting to do this too... I say we organize a group buy of them. Because if we got over 1000 switches we might be able to talk to cherry directly. Just an idea. Sounds pretty BA, not gonna lie.
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If I recall directly, there are rumors that the new CM mechanical keyboard will have an option to get it with full greens (and clears)
I espacially hope for the clears to happen B-)
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Greens are like a clicky panda clear, but even heavier! Very manly switch.
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Sounds fun
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The feel of a cherry green is almost = a cherry blue stem with a cherry black spring. So if you took a G80-3000 with blue switches, changed all the springs to black springs from another source, it would feel like a full cherry green keyboard.
I would agree with this. Good description.
Iirc it might be heavier but im not sure. Might check later tonight.
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How would greens compare to buckling spring? If its how I think it would be, then a full NKRO MX Green keyboard would be my absolutely perfect keyboard.
....if it had dark purple one it somewhere, at least. :D
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I doubt ghetto-greens feel like greens, same way that ghetto-reds probably don't feel the exact same as reds.
They are very near,
i have both on two different keyboards and i used old blue switches spring whith new black stems and full new red switches.
And i can't feel the difference, which doesn't mean there isn't of course :-)
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Greens are like a clicky panda clear, but even heavier! Very manly switch.
This sounds awesome. I just finished modding two boards to ghetto reds and ergo clears. I'll have to try ghetto greens next.
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Is it crazy talk to want an entire board of greens? Mainly because I like the color green.
Since you asked, I would have to answer yes, IMO it is crazy.
You sir, understand. I think I will probably just try to paint the stems if WASD ever stocks a darker green.
Why do you care about the stem color, which is not even visible unless you take the keycaps off ???
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Since you asked, I would have to answer yes, IMO it is crazy.
Why do you care about the stem color, which is not even visible unless you take the keycaps off ???
Because I will KNOW. I will know that my board is green at heart, even if it's black on the outside.
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But if you paint the stems it will all be a sham. And you know it.
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But if you paint the stems it will all be a sham. And you know it.
Damn you. Now I will never have peace. Unless of course I come by 104 greens, or 87 and a TKL board.
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2nd of June email from blainchen on Deskthority.
Price per switch is EUR 0.85.
Shipping is EUR 15.00 to Australia.
It would cost $101 USD without shipping for 87 MX green key switches.
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2nd of June email from blainchen on Deskthority.
It would cost $101 USD without shipping for 87 MX green key switches.
Well, this is one dream I am abandoning.
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You could always start saving :wof:
...Or hope we get a 1000 switch group buy going.