Nothing in the mail today, but it's time to catch up with all of my previous recent mail days since there was a bit of light today.
EXCUSE MY MESS OF WIRES AND OTHER JUNK, I have too much stuff on one desk.
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First off we have the WKL Phantom I purchased from DrHubblePHD. I had a long wait before I received the board, so he was kind enough to include a lot of extra stuff. It originally came in one big bag that said 'DrHubblePHD's most amazing mod kit'. Lots of great stuff in there to get me started.
First thing I did was spring swap (55g gold Sprit springs) and lube the MX blacks in the Phantom, and put the 62g Gateron Clear I was given by Zeal on the esc switch.
Still a lot of work for me to do on this board, it needs to be fully taken apart and the Teensy de-soldered and pushed in tight to the PCB to fit it into my Vortex alu case. The left windows key doesn't work either, but I have no clue what's wrong with it as I swapped the switch out for a known good one, and still no response.
Thanks Hubble!
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My recently acquired soldering gear, I've been enjoying learning how to solder.. I'm still a noob but hopefully I will become confident in my abilities.
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My Vortex aluminum Filco case, and my QFR MX reds with Frosty Flake V2. It has no caps at the moment, but it should have a nice set on it soon. Planning for this to be my first fully modded by myself board. I ordered another top case to be painted, and I'm looking for a uTKL plate before I de-solder it all and tune the switches.
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A Blue Slushy Lion Keyng and polycarb spacebars I received from Hoff. I was given these for no charge, because Hoff is a really nice guy.
And last but not least, I received a JD40 with MX reds as a gift from JD. I had mentioned in the CtrlAlt advent give away thread that if I had won the JD40 kit, I was going to build it and give it to my girlfriend as a present. A couple days later, JD PM'd me offering to build one for her at no charge. I received the board just a few days before Valentines day and I gave it to her as a Valentines gift. She is currently loving it, she uses it mostly for gaming.
I am pretty blown away by the generosity JD has shown to two complete strangers. It goes to show the special type of community we have here at GeekHack. I don't have any pictures as the board is at my girlfriends house and I still haven't taken pictures of it with my GF yet. But if you read this JD, a (really, really) big thank you from Dakota and Brandi.