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geekhack Community => New Members => Topic started by: justin one on Tue, 18 September 2012, 03:21:27

Title: Hello GeekHack
Post by: justin one on Tue, 18 September 2012, 03:21:27
What a wonderful site you have! I recently made my first mechanical keyboard purchase of a Filco Majestouch 2 Ninja w/ brown switches and am already looking at other keyboards for purchase. I'd like to get a Poker w/ red switches and PBT caps but as far as I can tell they are rarely in stock so I'll just have to wait it out.

This seems like a pretty awesome community.
Title: Re: Hello GeekHack
Post by: hazeluff on Tue, 18 September 2012, 03:31:09
Buy a poker and then a set of PBT keycaps to replace them ; p


Welcome to GeekHack.
Title: Re: Hello GeekHack
Post by: justin one on Tue, 18 September 2012, 10:32:44
Buy a poker and then a set of PBT keycaps to replace them ; p


Welcome to GeekHack.

That is exactly what I'd do, but it seems pretty impossible to find a Poker w/ red switches at the moment (without getting one used). The only ones I could find were the blacks at mechanicalkeyboards.com.
Title: Re: Hello GeekHack
Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Tue, 18 September 2012, 10:52:08
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/61075086/WelcomeWally.jpg)
Title: Re: Hello GeekHack
Post by: absyrd on Tue, 18 September 2012, 12:17:25
Buy a poker and then a set of PBT keycaps to replace them ; p


Welcome to GeekHack.

That is exactly what I'd do, but it seems pretty impossible to find a Poker w/ red switches at the moment (without getting one used). The only ones I could find were the blacks at mechanicalkeyboards.com.

You can pretty easily find blue/red/brown springs via classifieds on here and do an easy mod without soldering to "ghetto reds" on all the switches with no LEDs. Best part about the poker is the ease of beginner modding and switch testing and compatibility with keycap sets.

Welcome to GH!
Title: Re: Hello GeekHack
Post by: rowdy on Tue, 18 September 2012, 17:07:13
Welcome to Geekhack!

One keyboard.  Then another.  Then some key caps ...

And then .....

Your wallet will not recover ;)