my new plan to get a white cherry brown filco tenkeyless

[gizzard]

Is this plan nuts?:
1.  buy cherry brown black case
2.  buy cherry red white case
3.  swap caps and case
4.  sell black cherry red

[alaricljs]

More like: 
1) Buy browns in black case
2) Buy reds in white case
3) destroy warranty on both boards
4) sell reds in black case

[rknize]

Don't need a warranty if it's Filco, silly!

[alaricljs]

Oh yeah, and by #3 I mean you have to open the case and swap the entire board assembly.

[gizzard]

hmm.. so not a good plan?  man, this kinda blows...

i guess i can go leopold white.. hmmm

[metalliqaz]

Has anyone here ever used a warranty on a Filco?

I'm a big Leopold fan so your other plan works, too

Also, have you tried reds?  Apparently very similar to browns, especially if you touch type.

[gizzard]

man, wish this wasnt so hard.. ill give reds a shot for awhile.. im not much of a touch typer - i have a tendency to bottom out all the time..

[WhiteFireDragon]

Who says you're not allowed to bottom out on mx reds? It doesn't ZAP you every time you bottom out...

[alaricljs]

Something must be wrong with my Filco then.  lol....

But yeah, I prefer bottoming out.  Switches strong enough to force me not to bottom out are too stiff and fatiguing.  I use browns and bottom out 100% of my keystrokes but I don't do it with such jarring force that I have any issues there either.

[Lethal Squirrel]

I never got that whole "bottoming out is bad" thing. I like bottoming out. the sound and feel is nice to me, and its one of the major things that make mechanical keyboards (cherry MX at least) feel so different from normal membrane keyboards imo. You don't get "clunk clunk" or "mush mush" you get "clack clack" which to me feels/sounds very satisfying and high quality.

[shawn o]

Sound like a good plan. Swapping boards between cases takes literally 1 minute today (3 screws).

[rknize]

I generally prefer tactile switches and I bottom out pretty much 100%.  Typing on linear switches feels a bit odd, but I did find the red switches with o-rings have a nice feel.  The shorter stroke and little bit of bounce gives it an almost tactile feel at the bottom.

[fohat.digs]

a simple direct case swap is somewhere around 1.02 on a scale of 1-100 of difficulty by the standards of this forum.

I would consider the case opening/closing much easier than pulling and re-setting a hundred keycaps.

the things we do to get just exactly what we want ........

O-rings are worth 1/10 their weight in gold, in my opinion, to eliminate that whole "bottoming-out" phenomenon.

[gizzard]

been playing with my cherry brown.. amazing.. .. its still a bit loud for my office though.. tbd... i just enjoy bottoming out too much