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Title: O-rings and Landing Pads
Post by: Photoelectric on Sat, 11 May 2013, 13:24:30

O-rings of various hardness, Landing Pads (soft/firm)--I'm lost!

Would anyone who's used landing pads or both landing pads and o-rings care to comment on your experience with them?

I'm using 50A o-rings for MX Brown switches, and while the bottoming out sound has been diminished, I think the feel of the keys has changed slightly, and there's still some bottoming out sound present.  I'm wondering if switching to landing pads will be good improvement.  And which pads would make more sense for MX Browns: firm or soft ones?

http://elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=access,slpads

Many thanks!

Title: Re: O-rings and Landing Pads
Post by: CPTBadAss on Sat, 11 May 2013, 13:26:52

I wrote a review with my thoughts here (http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=40227.0). I currently use the black soft landing pads on my FC700R

Title: Re: O-rings and Landing Pads
Post by: Photoelectric on Sat, 11 May 2013, 13:30:10

Doh, I searched but apparently not thoroughly enough.

Thank you for the link and the review work~

Title: Re: O-rings and Landing Pads
Post by: CPTBadAss on Sat, 11 May 2013, 13:58:57

Thanks! Hopefully others will chime in with their thoughts as well but I think there's quite a few links/threads around on this.

Title: Re: O-rings and Landing Pads
Post by: WhiteFireDragon on Sat, 11 May 2013, 15:42:02

Landing pads were way too mushy for me. 40A and 50A are nearly the same, and those feel just right to me. I custom ordered 30A silicone O-rings for a GB before, but those were pretty expensive to get custom made.

Btw, no matter which softness you use, there is no way to completely remove all bottom-out sound. They're just too thin to physically remove 100% of the force.

Title: Re: O-rings and Landing Pads
Post by: GeoTang on Sun, 12 May 2013, 04:09:53

http://deskthority.net/off-topic-f10/o-ring-sampler-t3386.html (http://deskthority.net/off-topic-f10/o-ring-sampler-t3386.html)
In this thread of try-it-out bags on deskthority, the people that tried it thought o-rings > landing pads because the pads were too mushy.

Title: Re: O-rings and Landing Pads
Post by: fohat.digs on Sun, 12 May 2013, 09:04:45

I think that pads are pretty nice with blues, because you are working off the actuation point, which is still a bit higher than the pad.

For others, I like O-rings, the softer and thinner the better. I don't want to change the travel any more than I have to, and do want the cushion all the way at the bottom.

If it were possible to put O-rings on buckling springs, I would do it. They would be nice on Alps, too, since the actuation point is so high.