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geekhack Projects => Making Stuff Together! => Topic started by: zoolzoo on Mon, 04 November 2013, 19:38:54
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What methods do you guys use to pop open switches? Im going on an ergo clear adventure!
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http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=40501.0#post_LL
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The binder clip thing
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I do the Limmy binder clip switch tool (http://www.kbdmania.net/xe/tipandtech/3520312) CPTBadAss linked too. I like it better than The_Beast switch tool and it's cheaper. It's just takes some futzing about to figure out the optimal shape for it. Once you get that down, it's awesome.
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I do the Limmy binder clip switch tool (http://www.kbdmania.net/xe/tipandtech/3520312) CPTBadAss linked too. I like it better than The_Beast switch tool and it's cheaper. It's just takes some futzing about to figure out the optimal shape for it. Once you get that down, it's awesome.
You tell me. Tried making one before seeing the pictures by hand bending it the wrong way, then looked and spent another hour trying to get them perfect. I've got two so far that are decent but aren't perfoming optimally ie not fitting right in there, needing a push, and not hitting the right part inside the switch
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For non mounted switches, use a screwdriver.
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Two screwdrivers. Pop one side off, use the screwdriver to hold the switch down/prevent the switch from closing then pop the other side.
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Two screwdrivers. Pop one side off, use the screwdriver to hold the switch down/prevent the switch from closing then pop the other side.
I just hold the other side open with my finger.
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Abracadabra?
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Abracadabra?
no
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Second set of Beast's tools? J/K, I actually gave them away for free :)
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Second set of Beast's tools? J/K, I actually gave them away for free :)
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I just use a guitar pick cut to fit the holes.
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I just use a guitar pick cut to fit the holes.
GOOD IDEA!
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I just use a guitar pick cut to fit the holes.
Got any pics?....that sounds interesting.
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So I finally started taking my switches apart...this that hard at all. All you need is a a very small flat head screw driver, two hands, and some finger nails. I guess if you are taking them apart while mounted to a pcb its a different story?
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So I finally started taking my switches apart...this that hard at all. All you need is a a very small flat head screw driver, two hands, and some finger nails. I guess if you are taking them apart while mounted to a pcb its a different story?
NVM
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I found my work with a screwdriver to be painfully slow, while I waited for beast's switch tools in the mail. Just did my first run with them today and I took apart 100 switches in maybe 25 minutes.
Though the binders do look like they might be more comfortable to use. I'm having to press pretty hard to get the tool in the switch, and the fingers holding the switch are getting pretty chewed up. Maybe I'll file down the teeth a bit.
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Good evening,
I myself am getting ready to take apart my mechanical key switches and was wondering how I could get a hold of one of the Beasts switch tools that I keep hearing about on these forums! Is there a website I can buy them at? Thank you in advance!
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Good evening,
I myself am getting ready to take apart my mechanical key switches and was wondering how I could get a hold of one of the Beasts switch tools that I keep hearing about on these forums! Is there a website I can buy them at? Thank you in advance!
As far as I'm aware, they were sold in very limited quantities here in the classifieds. I've been looking to buy a set for close to a year now and haven't had anything even close to a chance at getting a set. He has some titanium ones that should be up for sale sometime in the near future.
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2 toothpicks crossed is the best. Cheap, reusable and almost everyone has some of them in their house already.
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2 toothpicks crossed is the best. Cheap, reusable and almost everyone has some of them in their house already.
Picture? Having a hard time visualizing.
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2 toothpicks crossed is the best. Cheap, reusable and almost everyone has some of them in their house already.
Will they break easily?
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(http://i.imgur.com/x099JaD.png)
Will they break easily?
They're more durable than you'd think. I used the same 2 toothpicks to open up 40 black switches and 2 other toothpicks to open about 100 clear switches(2 separate occasions).
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2 toothpicks crossed is the best. Cheap, reusable and almost everyone has some of them in their house already.
Will they break easily?
You can use them to open the switch from the bottom: they should easily be strong enough for that.
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I found after getting really frustrated with binder clips that a pair of pointy tweezers does and excellent job.
(http://imgur.com/OwVZCdr.jpg)
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I'd like to have both types of tools. The desk version for opening MX switches while they are unmounted :
(http://i.imgur.com/sjiX04Q.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/ucCM6P0.jpg)
Also one of Beast's tools for opening a switch while mounted in a plate (that works for such) :
(https://geekhack.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=62688.0;attach=79786;image)
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bent tweezers and a precision flat head :D I also do switches off the board.
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Two small flathead screwdrivers...
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0100010: Where did you get that plastic opener? Is it 3D printed?
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Not mine, I only said I would like to have one. Thread about them here :
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=64115.0