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scribble · « **on:** Thu, 02 June 2011, 16:42:54 »

To take Browns out of a cheap Adesso and put them into my filco if i like them?
I'm thinking about getting browns to try now but I don't think that I'd want to get another filco because of how expensive they are.

I've heard of people modding keyboards, is what they mean?

DaemonRaccoon · « **Reply #1 on:** Thu, 02 June 2011, 16:47:15 »

That depends, how good are you with a soldering iron?

daerid · « **Reply #2 on:** Thu, 02 June 2011, 17:20:08 »

You don't need a soldering iron, you can just pop the tops off the switch and swap the stems/springs.

There should be a Wiki entry on that, just look for it.

Dox · « **Reply #3 on:** Thu, 02 June 2011, 17:23:05 »

Quote from: daerid;354828

You don't need a soldering iron, you can just pop the tops off the switch and swap the stems/springs.

There should be a Wiki entry on that, just look for it.

Yes you do need a soldering iron. The flico is plate mounted so you need to de-solder each switch in order to open it.

daerid · « **Reply #4 on:** Thu, 02 June 2011, 17:33:07 »

****ake... you're right.

Dox · « **Reply #5 on:** Thu, 02 June 2011, 17:54:11 »

I've de-soldered all the 104 switches from a G80-3000 mx blue with 4 solder points each. Then, I've opened each of them to remove the useless wire in the diode cavity and swap some of the stem for a cherry clear stem. All in all, desoldering 104 switches, opening 167 switches and reassemble the switches (not on the keyboard) took around 4 hours.

noodles256 · « **Reply #6 on:** Thu, 02 June 2011, 17:59:07 »

desoldering is like making sandwiches. takes practice

Orphagn · « **Reply #7 on:** Thu, 02 June 2011, 18:01:51 »

Quote from: ripster;354866

I have women make me sammiches.

You trust women with your food? lol

Dox · « **Reply #8 on:** Thu, 02 June 2011, 18:10:31 »

I do have some previous soldering experience but the most important thing is to get a good technique/position to remove the switches and just keep on going. I got to say that the hardest part for me was my left thumb getting tired from pumping the de-soldering pump. It may seem kinda weak but pumping that thing over 400 times isn't an easy task.

Dox · « **Reply #9 on:** Thu, 02 June 2011, 18:20:15 »

The jumpers are indeed harder to remove. I use a pump that look a lot like this one:

scribble · « **Reply #10 on:** Thu, 02 June 2011, 18:35:18 »

Alright, I guess it's not gonna happen!
Well anyway, something random just started happening, I'm realizing when i hit my enter key, i can hear a metal "ding" noise echo about the board.
I can get this noise to happen when i tap on the board near the enter key as well.

Filco Tenkeyless

scribble · « **Reply #11 on:** Thu, 02 June 2011, 19:07:40 »

hahah holy sit! no way you actually did that... so how common is this then?

BucklingSpring · « **Reply #12 on:** Thu, 02 June 2011, 19:47:26 »

Quote from: ripster;354902

Spring ping.

Fix by adding lead to the keyboard (probably my craziest mod) or sticking on a mousemat like the Xtrac SuperXXL.

I wouldn't mind adding this kind of lead to my XArmor.

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