O-Rings for Unicomp Ultra Classic?

[TallOne123]

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.

[klennkellon]

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.

[fohat.digs]

Floss modding has a large and positive effect on Model Fs but not so much on Ms.

[0100010]

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...