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Group Buys and Preorders / Re: Beam Spring 104+SSK+122+62 Reproduction Project! now shipping
« Last post by Ellipse on Fri, 05 June 2026, 15:23:23 »Yes, you may have cracked or fractured parts of the legs when installing many of the keycaps (I have done this before, in my earlier testing of the early new beam spring keyboards years ago!). You can sometimes detect it if the key module without an installed key wobbles a bit more than the other keys.
Absolutely little to no force is needed to install the project keycaps, as mentioned in the very first sentence of Action Step 6 Keycap Installation:
"Be extremely gentle when pressing each key down to install it; you can easily break or fracture the white part of the beam module if you press too hard."
Now to think how to fix what was done: I recommend trying to more quickly expose which keys are bad, to avoid you having to keep fixing things as they make themselves known. What I might do is take a large sturdy flat object (something like the key set box, protected on the bottom side with a cotton towel etc.) and use it to press all of the keys down gently many times, maybe 100 times or more, and then manually press each key a bunch of times from slightly different angles, taking note of which ones don't feel right or produce an inconsistent signal in the Level Monitor screen of the diagnostic tool. Then replace those modules with some of your spares from the first aid kit. As always be extremely gentle with this method so as not to break or scratch any keys.
Absolutely little to no force is needed to install the project keycaps, as mentioned in the very first sentence of Action Step 6 Keycap Installation:
"Be extremely gentle when pressing each key down to install it; you can easily break or fracture the white part of the beam module if you press too hard."
Now to think how to fix what was done: I recommend trying to more quickly expose which keys are bad, to avoid you having to keep fixing things as they make themselves known. What I might do is take a large sturdy flat object (something like the key set box, protected on the bottom side with a cotton towel etc.) and use it to press all of the keys down gently many times, maybe 100 times or more, and then manually press each key a bunch of times from slightly different angles, taking note of which ones don't feel right or produce an inconsistent signal in the Level Monitor screen of the diagnostic tool. Then replace those modules with some of your spares from the first aid kit. As always be extremely gentle with this method so as not to break or scratch any keys.

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! What an amazing project to come together... But damn did I not realize how truly big this thing is, I've (gently) placed my daily driver, which now lives at my office, on top for scale. 