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Offline foxer

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Removing switches...
« on: Wed, 15 June 2011, 14:51:19 »
I apologise in advance if there is already a tutorial/thread on this...

I'm new to the whole mechanical keyboard world. I've got a BlackWidow which in all honestly, I despise. I plan on ordering a Filco brown soon-ish when I've got a spare £126.

Until then I was wondering about how I would go about removing the switches from my BlackWidow? Also where am I able to buy a whole load of brown switches to replace the blue ones with?

Any help appreciated.

- foxer.
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Offline False_Dmitry_II

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Removing switches...
« Reply #1 on: Wed, 15 June 2011, 14:55:02 »
You'd have to desolder all of them (I'm assuming the blackwidow is platemounted, if it isn't, then just pop all the keys off and take the switches apart).

At that point I'd just post a Want To Trade in the classifieds.
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Offline The Solutor

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Removing switches...
« Reply #2 on: Thu, 16 June 2011, 08:09:12 »
BW has just two pin per switch to desolder, and the holes are pretty large so it's a very easy task.
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