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Title: Hello World!
Post by: afonsoocosta on Sun, 17 January 2016, 07:12:43
Hi guys, I'm here for try to built my first mechanical keyboard, but i have some questions like:

Here I can buy a PCB and a Plate for a 60% keyboard? The case I want to built myself, but the other things i have to buy and I don't know from here I buy...

A 60% custom keyboard is very expensive?

Thanks and good luck for all!
Title: Re: Hello World!
Post by: rowdy on Mon, 18 January 2016, 03:42:36
Welcome to Geekhack!

Your best bet would be to have a look through group buys (https://geekhack.org/index.php?board=70.0) to see if there is any current group buy you are interested in.  Although I think most of the 60% GBs are already well in progress and it's too late to join.  Although if there was one you really liked, you could post there asking if anyone had changed their mind and wanted to sell their order.

Or you could look through interest checks (https://geekhack.org/index.php?board=132.0) and see if there are any upcoming 60% group buys (looks like you might have done this already).

Another occasional source is Massdrop, although it doesn't look like there are any 60% kit drops running right now: http://www.massdrop.com/
Title: Re: Hello World!
Post by: swimmingbird on Mon, 18 January 2016, 05:36:37
Welcome to the forum! There are quite a few places that you can get a 60% plate and pcb - Rowdy has suggested some good ones

GON and Winkeyless.kr both have offerings that are very good
Title: Re: Hello World!
Post by: afonsoocosta on Mon, 18 January 2016, 19:51:46
Quote from: swimmingbird on Mon, 18 January 2016, 05:36:37
Welcome to the forum! There are quite a few places that you can get a 60% plate and pcb - Rowdy has suggested some good ones

GON and Winkeyless.kr both have offerings that are very good

Thanks for reply... I see the winkeyless and i like, but i don't see plates sell on the website, here i find plates for x2 pcb? On the site have a case and plate together but the case i will make one on wood... I only want thr PCB, switch and plate
..
Title: Re: Hello World!
Post by: swimmingbird on Mon, 18 January 2016, 22:45:39
Quote from: afonsoocosta on Mon, 18 January 2016, 19:51:46
Quote from: swimmingbird on Mon, 18 January 2016, 05:36:37
Welcome to the forum! There are quite a few places that you can get a 60% plate and pcb - Rowdy has suggested some good ones

GON and Winkeyless.kr both have offerings that are very good

Thanks for reply... I see the winkeyless and i like, but i don't see plates sell on the website, here i find plates for x2 pcb? On the site have a case and plate together but the case i will make one on wood... I only want thr PCB, switch and plate
..

GON has a 60% plate and I would also have a look at the one offered by sentrantpc
Title: Re: Hello World!
Post by: afonsoocosta on Tue, 19 January 2016, 08:31:53
I see that sites now, but the problem is shipping to Portugal, on the winkeyless the shipinng only for the PCB is 28$, and on the sentrantpc the shipping is 5$, much better... My problem now is find a PCB with shipping cheap, but it is not easy :p

Thanks for reaply's
Title: Re: Hello World!
Post by: Brammm87 on Tue, 19 January 2016, 11:02:26
Quote from: afonsoocosta on Tue, 19 January 2016, 08:31:53
I see that sites now, but the problem is shipping to Portugal, on the winkeyless the shipinng only for the PCB is 28$, and on the sentrantpc the shipping is 5$, much better... My problem now is find a PCB with shipping cheap, but it is not easy :p

Thanks for reaply's

Yeah, shipping ain't easy living in continental EU. There's some stuff going on over in the UK, but as for Western Europe... Get used to paying shipping fees and customs taxes.