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Offline scrubadub

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« on: Wed, 11 January 2012, 10:20:07 »
Hi, does anyone have some spare Cherry MX stems lying around? I thought I'd try modding my off-center Cherry keys using ripster's jig method.

Otherwise, would the easiest way be to just buy a few spare switches from WASD Keyboards and take them apart?
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« Reply #1 on: Wed, 11 January 2012, 10:39:29 »
What color stems do you need?
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« Reply #2 on: Wed, 11 January 2012, 11:07:48 »
Uhm, KL... he's gonna glue them to a board (think wood)  or something similar to make a jig for modifying spacebars and Caps Locks.  I'm thinking color doesn't matter.
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« Reply #3 on: Wed, 11 January 2012, 12:35:05 »
Oh ok...well I have a ton of black stems. PM me if you want 'em and let me know how many.
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« Reply #4 on: Wed, 11 January 2012, 13:10:59 »
Awesome, will do. Thanks KL!
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« Reply #5 on: Sat, 14 January 2012, 02:18:58 »
Just use the stabilizer inserts from wasd they work well and are what i used to make all of my jigs. If u cant figure out the modding i should soon have a thread up for that.
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« Reply #6 on: Sat, 14 January 2012, 23:30:50 »
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Just use the stabilizer inserts from wasd they work well and are what i used to make all of my jigs. If u cant figure out the modding i should soon have a thread up for that.

KL hooked me up with enough stems for now, but thanks for the tip. I had missed those stabilizer inserts when I looked at their website. I am really looking forward to seeing your modding pages though, sounds like you've experimented quite a bit already.

Now the tough thing is to choose which keys to sacrifice for donor stems... I had originally thought I could use the same stem over again but looking at ripster's page and thinking about it more that doesn't seem workable. I'll practice a few before I actually mod the keys I want.
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« Reply #7 on: Sat, 14 January 2012, 23:38:39 »
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KL hooked me up with enough stems for now, but thanks for the tip. I had missed those stabilizer inserts when I looked at their website. I am really looking forward to seeing your modding pages though, sounds like you've experimented quite a bit already.

Now the tough thing is to choose which keys to sacrifice for donor stems... I had originally thought I could use the same stem over again but looking at ripster's page and thinking about it more that doesn't seem workable. I'll practice a few before I actually mod the keys I want.

I've got a bagful of cherry corp lasered beige keys you can have. I can throw them in a flat rate box for $5.20.
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« Reply #8 on: Sun, 15 January 2012, 02:30:17 »
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KL hooked me up with enough stems for now, but thanks for the tip. I had missed those stabilizer inserts when I looked at their website. I am really looking forward to seeing your modding pages though, sounds like you've experimented quite a bit already.

Now the tough thing is to choose which keys to sacrifice for donor stems... I had originally thought I could use the same stem over again but looking at ripster's page and thinking about it more that doesn't seem workable. I'll practice a few before I actually mod the keys I want.

just buy some blank keys from wasd, thats what I do, then the keycap has a nice new tight fitting stem.
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