Changing the switches on the Cherry G80-3000

[exousia7]

So I have a Cherry G80-3000 with MX blue switches. I decided I wanted to play around with brown switches, but I didn't really have the money to buy another keyboard since I already have MX blues and MX black (CM Storm QFR) keyboards. So instead of spending money on a new keyboard, I just changed the switches on my G80-3000 and I wanted to share with you guys the process of changing the switches.

Cherry G80-3000LSCRC-2 with top cover off
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Keycaps pulled off
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Bit by bit blue switches come off...
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All the switches are off!!
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A closer look at the inside of a switch
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Bunch of blue "half-switches"
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Replaced with brown switches!!
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In total the whole process took me less than an hour....here you see that I didn't change the green switch on the spacebar. I eventually changed it to a black switch to kinda match with the set of browns. After a couple of days of using brown switches I changed them all back to blue switches LOL.

[Tonmotei]

Where did you get the brown switches from? Did you buy them?

[IvanIvanovich]

People sell/trade stems and springs all the time here in the classifieds section. No need to pay for whole switch this way, much cheaper as most sell for about $.10 each.

[exousia7]

I have my brown switches stored away. There might come a time when I would feel like I want to change to brown switches again some time in the future =P I bought switches in Taiwan for 10NTD each.