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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: TallOne123 on Sat, 02 September 2017, 13:18:07
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Greetings GeekHack,
I made the jump to Unicomp's Ultra Classic buckling spring keyboard after my Logitech g710+ w/ MX browns broke down. I was a bit disillusioned as to how LOUD this thing was so I went to Reddit and found out about "Floss Modding", but I'm wondering if I can take a step further and apply O-Rings to my keyboard. Google didn't turn up anything about buckling spring o-rings, so I thought the folks here might know of an alternative or two.
Ideally, I'd want some way to preserve the tactile experience while dampening on purely the sound.
Thank you.
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O-rings can't be installed BS unfortunately. However most of what you hear in BS is just the spring itself. The bottoming out and upstroke are actually a lot less clacky than on regular mechanical switches so it wouldn't do much anyway.
If you want a tactile and quiet switch you probably will want to take a look at Matias Quiet Click switches.
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Floss modding has a large and positive effect on Model Fs but not so much on Ms.
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I seem to recall someone posting a picture of an old Wheelwriter that had 1/2" or 7/16" O-rings around some of the barrels a few years ago (as in, when they removed the caps, those O-rings had been in place for a long time).
Always meant to order some, just to check for affect on sound // never got around to it. Now I am hunting for that old picture...