How loud are Dampened Cream Alps?

[TastaturenAuslese]

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So I've found a donor AEK II board from a local e-recycling depot, for my upcoming Alps 60% project. From someone with experience using these, how loud are the switches? I'm intending to use this board at work, since my original plan was to use my HHKB, but I kind want to leave it and the expensive artisans at home. Always wanted to have a cream Alps board though, so I thought it'd be great idea to build one for work. I just wouldn't wanna annoy my coworkers with all the clicky clicky. Thoughts?

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Looking to build a custom keyboard for work with some damped cream alps I've harvested. Can anyone tell me which customs I should be looking for? If I'm correct, the two that I know of are the Infinity and the JD40. Are there any other ones?

[Melvang]

Looking to build a custom keyboard for work with some damped cream alps I've harvested. Can anyone tell me which customs I should be looking for? If I'm correct, the two that I know of are the Infinity and the JD40. Are there any other ones?

If you don't mind hand wiring, you can use Swills plate building tool for your own layout.

[TastaturenAuslese]

Looking to build a custom keyboard for work with some damped cream alps I've harvested. Can anyone tell me which customs I should be looking for? If I'm correct, the two that I know of are the Infinity and the JD40. Are there any other ones?

If you don't mind hand wiring, you can use Swills plate building tool for your own layout.

Hmm, I don't think I'm keyboard savvy enough to handwire. I'd probably prefer something with a PCB already :3

[demik]

Kingsaver

Infinity

I think some of duck's stuff is also

[sth]

Hasu has a 60% pcb that he does groupbuys for sometimes

[suicidal_orange]

For the record the JD40 isn't Alps.

Handwiring really isn't that hard, don't buy a thin case though or getting it in will be!

[TastaturenAuslese]

For the record the JD40 isn't Alps.

Handwiring really isn't that hard, don't buy a thin case though or getting it in will be!

Ah I see. I must've misread then. JD45? I thought I saw Joey Quinn posting on the Price Check thread that he had either a JD40/45 with Blue Alps?

[suicidal_orange]

For the record the JD40 isn't Alps.

Handwiring really isn't that hard, don't buy a thin case though or getting it in will be!

Ah I see. I must've misread then. JD45? I thought I saw Joey Quinn posting on the Price Check thread that he had either a JD40/45 with Blue Alps?

Could be, all I know is I have a JD40 and it isn't

[TastaturenAuslese]

For the record the JD40 isn't Alps.

Handwiring really isn't that hard, don't buy a thin case though or getting it in will be!

Ah I see. I must've misread then. JD45? I thought I saw Joey Quinn posting on the Price Check thread that he had either a JD40/45 with Blue Alps?

Could be, all I know is I have a JD40 and it isn't

Just double checked, my bad, it's the JD45 haha.

[TastaturenAuslese]

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[chyros]

They're very quiet for a mechanical switch. Not as quiet as a mushy rubber dome, but nothing anyone would complain about I'd say.

Check my AEKII review for a typing demonstration at the end:

[Findecanor]

Handwiring really isn't that hard, don't buy a thin case though or getting it in will be!

I am not sure that handwiring is suitable for harvested Alps SKCM. The clips that hold the switches to the plates weren't made to withstand switch removal so most of them will break when you harvest the switches. The switches might have to be glued in.

[chyros]

Handwiring really isn't that hard, don't buy a thin case though or getting it in will be!

I am not sure that handwiring is suitable for harvested Alps SKCM. The clips that hold the switches to the plates weren't made to withstand switch removal so most of them will break when you harvest the switches. The switches might have to be glued in.

I've harvested >500 Alps switches by now (most of them SKCM Black/Late) and not had more than maybe one or two break off - how in God's name did you remove yours? xD

My Alps keychain similarly has a switch clipped into just a small frame of an AT101W mounting plate, and being in my pocket all day with ~25 other keys, it takes a lot of abuse daily. Nothing's come off and it hasn't budged in the frame yet, either.

[jacobolus]

The clips that hold the switches to the plates weren't made to withstand switch removal so most of them will break when you harvest the switches. The switches might have to be glued in.

It’s not hard to desolder full keyboards without losing any little clips, or at most a couple. You just have to be careful. My recommendation is to desolder everything, then remove the PCB leaving just the switches and plate. To remove switches with greatest safety (especially helpful if the plate is thick or tight), push the clips flat against the switch housing while popping switches out of the plate.