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Title: Only change feather in a cherry mx switch?
Post by: hei on Mon, 30 January 2012, 14:27:05

Hi

I am wondering if you can open a cherry mx brown switch and change the feather in it to a feather from a black switch ? Is there anything bad with doing this ?

Title: Only change feather in a cherry mx switch?
Post by: fossala on Mon, 30 January 2012, 14:28:45

Feather? That doesn't make sense. Do you mean spring or stem?

Title: Only change feather in a cherry mx switch?
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Mon, 30 January 2012, 15:16:15

I hope you don't have feathers in your switches. Don't pluck chickens over your keyboards.
You can swap springs and/or stems in switches. A lot of us here do to put switch on board that does not come with a particular type, or to make hybrids. Depends on the board on how involved it is, but if you do it correctly it won't cause problems.

Title: Only change feather in a cherry mx switch?
Post by: Gawkbasher on Mon, 30 January 2012, 15:24:44

I dunno about you Cherry owners but I just changed the feathers in my Topre switches.

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Title: Only change feather in a cherry mx switch?
Post by: alaricljs on Mon, 30 January 2012, 15:26:25

Seeing a feather in your Topre, I fear finding out what hair that is on your F2.

Title: Only change feather in a cherry mx switch?
Post by: Gawkbasher on Mon, 30 January 2012, 15:27:34

Quote from: alaricljs;503472

Seeing a feather in your Topre, I fear finding out what hair that is on your F2.

Hahaha...that's actually not a hair, believe it or not -- I know it looks bad...

Title: Only change feather in a cherry mx switch?
Post by: hazeluff on Mon, 30 January 2012, 15:29:38

Quote from: Gawkbasher;503469

I dunno about you Cherry owners but I just changed the feathers in my Topre switches.

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Lol.Why do you have feathers just sitting around so you could do that...

I think the guy either means springs/stems.

Title: Only change feather in a cherry mx switch?
Post by: Gawkbasher on Mon, 30 January 2012, 15:30:46

My down pillows shed feathers everywhere. :(

And I knew what he meant...just having some fun with it.

Title: Only change feather in a cherry mx switch?
Post by: Ascaii on Mon, 30 January 2012, 15:31:31

Ill bet OP is german...in german a spring is called "Feder" which also means feather...^^

Title: Only change feather in a cherry mx switch?
Post by: hazeluff on Mon, 30 January 2012, 15:37:29

Quote from: Gawkbasher;503477

My down pillows shed feathers everywhere. :(

And I knew what he meant...just having some fun with it.

I know. And I laughed again looking at the picture.

OP to answer your question, Yes you can. But you can't open a switch that is plate mounted without desoldering the switch from the board.

Title: Only change feather in a cherry mx switch?
Post by: Culinia on Mon, 30 January 2012, 15:37:46

http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Cherry+Corporation+Switch+Wiki

See mods

Title: Only change feather in a cherry mx switch?
Post by: boli on Mon, 30 January 2012, 15:40:43

First of all: :becky:

Dunno if hei is from Germany, as feather and spring are the same word in german.

Switching springs is easy enough, unless the switches are plate mounted.
[video=youtube;GivKt63dLvA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GivKt63dLvA[/video]

Video was shown (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?26389-Kinesis-Advantage-w-Reds&p=500298&viewfull=1#post500298) to me by sordna and made changing the Cherry MX brown keys on the thumb cluster of my Kinesis Advantage a lot easier than resoldering. :)

As for the effect of replacing the spring in the brown switch with one from a black, the Wiki might be of help. ;)

Update: I guess I took a while posting, sorry for the redundancy. ;)

Title: Only change feather in a cherry mx switch?
Post by: hei on Tue, 31 January 2012, 14:58:57

Thx for the answers, exactly what i was looking for =)

Btw feather and spring has the same word in Swedish too so I didn't think too much about what word i used in English xD