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Title: Can you swap Cherry brown tops onto blacks?
Post by: didjamatic on Mon, 28 December 2009, 16:40:16

Hmmm, tried searching but wasn't 100% clear (likely due to being pumped full of cold medicine today)

Can you simply pop the switch tops off of Cherry Blacks and install tops of Cherry browns or is this a soldering gun mod?

Title: Can you swap Cherry brown tops onto blacks?
Post by: itlnstln on Mon, 28 December 2009, 16:50:18

Yes.
 
The method in which you do it would depend on the switch mounting.  Plate-mounted 'boards (Filco, Das III, etc.) require soldering.  PCB-mounted 'boards (Cherry Corp.) can be swapped without soldering; you just pop the top.

Title: Can you swap Cherry brown tops onto blacks?
Post by: didjamatic on Mon, 28 December 2009, 16:54:34

Awesome, thank you

Title: Can you swap Cherry brown tops onto blacks?
Post by: microsoft windows on Mon, 28 December 2009, 18:07:27

How do you think Cherry switches like that would feel? I haven't heard of people doing that before.

Title: Can you swap Cherry brown tops onto blacks?
Post by: ch_123 on Mon, 28 December 2009, 18:14:11

Quote from: didjamatic;146007

Hmmm, tried searching but wasn't 100% clear (likely due to being pumped full of cold medicine today)

Can you simply pop the switch tops off of Cherry Blacks and install tops of Cherry browns or is this a soldering gun mod?

I would imagine that soldering would prove much quicker if you were doing a full board swap.

Title: Can you swap Cherry brown tops onto blacks?
Post by: overdriver on Mon, 28 December 2009, 18:44:07

Quote from: itlnstln;146011

Yes.
 
The method in which you do it would depend on the switch mounting.  Plate-mounted 'boards (Filco, Das III, etc.) require soldering.  PCB-mounted 'boards (Cherry Corp.) can be swapped without soldering; you just pop the top.

Thanks for info. I was curious about this too.
btw, what about Scorpius M10 ? Is it PCB-mounted?

Title: Can you swap Cherry brown tops onto blacks?
Post by: ricercar on Mon, 28 December 2009, 20:42:42

Quote from: overdriver;146039

Scorpius M10 ? Is it PCB-mounted?

Yes. Linky (http://geekhack.org/showpost.php?p=107566&postcount=5)

Title: M10
Post by: dougy on Tue, 29 December 2009, 05:59:31

The pics don't show it but there is metal plate mounting. Looking at a modded one it doesn't look like you can remove the cap without desoldering from the board.

Title: Can you swap Cherry brown tops onto blacks?
Post by: timw4mail on Tue, 29 December 2009, 07:42:00

Quote from: dougy;146139

The pics don't show it but there is metal plate mounting. Looking at a modded one it doesn't look like you can remove the cap without desoldering from the board.

You can see if you look between the keys, that a Scorpius M10 is actually plate-mounted. Just looking at the back of the PCB isn't going to show you much.

Title: Can you swap Cherry brown tops onto blacks?
Post by: itlnstln on Tue, 29 December 2009, 09:01:27

Quote from: microsoft windows;146024

How do you think Cherry switches like that would feel? I haven't heard of people doing that before.

Like crap.  I did a switch swap on the spacebar of one of my 'boards (putting a grey spring in a brown switch).  The brown with the grey spring lost almost any tactility it had.  It pretty much feels like a black.

Title: Can you swap Cherry brown tops onto blacks?
Post by: overdriver on Tue, 29 December 2009, 12:57:44

Quote from: timw4mail;146146

You can see if you look between the keys, that a Scorpius M10 is actually plate-mounted. Just looking at the back of the PCB isn't going to show you much.

oh crap. so no keyswitch swapping with M10 without soldering ?