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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: MackMattacker on Thu, 19 April 2018, 16:27:12
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Good afternoon everyone. I am looking to custom build a board using the new matias quiet linear switches. These are the plate mounted switches and I cannot solder switches. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for PCB, plate, and case for this build. Another option I was considering was taking a matias keyboard and replacing the switches.
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If you can't solder and you aren't willing to learn, you'll need someone to do it for you. As far as I know there are not any PCBs with Alps/Matias compatible hotswapping.
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I would wager that a KBParadise V80 Matias QC board would be worth the same new as it would with all the switches desoldered and removed with out damage... maybe worth more as a bare kit that people could then solder in SKCM or whatever they wanted.
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Well I'm kinda-sorta maintaining a list of Alps-compatible PCBs and plates here (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=94884.0), though admittedly I'm not sure if Alps-compatible = Matias-compatible.
And unless you know someone who can solder for you, you won't be able to avoid that part.
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Matias switches are 99% compatible with Alps switches, they are copies of the Alps SKBx (simplified) series. If I remember correctly, Matias actually uses Forward's old equipment since they stopped manufacturing SKBx switches about a decade ago, but this is second hand knowledge and I have no source to confirm that with.