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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: zeroni13 on Wed, 12 March 2014, 16:56:25
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I really want some dedicated tool for taking cherry MX switches apart. Does a tool like that even exist? Right now I'm using this tool which I made myself with the help of this guide here: http://www.kbdmania.net/xe/tipandtech/3520312 they work well, but I find them very fragile and they don't fit to well in the holes on the switch.
If you know of some better tool or an easy alternative way to remove the top of the switches please enlighten me!
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Nobody knows? There has to be a better way.
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the beast switch tool
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the beast switch tool
Angled tweezers can work too. You can use two angled tweezers on both ends of the switch, or unlock one side of the switch, hold that opening, and then unlock the other side with the same tweezer.
This video demonstrates it with one tweezer:
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the beast switch tool
^^ this
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the beast switch tool
Maybe it was my tool, but I found that the binder clip switch tool worked way better than the_beast switch tool I bought a while back. I sold it because I wasn't all that happy with it. I may have just got one that didn't have the right angle on it. I know that that was an issue with one production run of them.
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the beast switch tool
^^ this
(Attachment Link)
Guessing that was in a GB, is it still available?
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the beast switch tool
^^ this
(Attachment Link)
Guessing that was in a GB, is it still available?
ti is coming soon
otherwise its hard to find--REALLY HARD TO FIND
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ti is coming soon
What do you mean?
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ti is coming soon
What do you mean?
He either meant "it is coming soon" or Titanium (switch tools) are coming soon. :p
The original switch tools were made of stainless steel, but this time it'll be made out of Titanium! :eek:
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I use a 2-prong pickle fork with the tips bent slightly
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ti is coming soon
What do you mean?
titanium
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Two properly bent paperclips works just fine.
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Two properly bent paperclips works just fine.
Two properly bent paperclips works just fine.
Do you have an example?
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Do you have an example?
Need to scroll down a bit: http://deskthority.net/workshop-f7/i-did-a-guide-of-how-to-open-cherry-switches-t2458.html
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Do you have an example?
Need to scroll down a bit: http://deskthority.net/workshop-f7/i-did-a-guide-of-how-to-open-cherry-switches-t2458.html (http://deskthority.net/workshop-f7/i-did-a-guide-of-how-to-open-cherry-switches-t2458.html)
Don't think I noticed that before, interesting.