And based on this comment, I take it costar stabs are more popular with plate mount switches and cherry with PCB mount?
Costar stabs are popular on stock keyboards.
If you plan on doing much soldering, the Hakko FX-888D is a good one to start with.
I do intend to pick up soldering more, at the bare minimum I'd like to feel comfortable soldering so I can do switch swaps... but I could see this spiraling out into a large love for more intense hardware customization
). Thanks for the recco! I've seen the Hakko mentioned a lot, so I guess I'll get an FX-888D for a starter, thanks! Is there a particular chisel tip that works best for keyboards?
After I finish shipping all the outstanding orders from the Dolch/Stabs buy this week I will know what is leftover if anything. For those that need stabs from this and the other RedScarf kit will get first crack at them.
Will you post in this thread when you know if you have leftovers? And I assume we'll fill out another Google Form and get invoiced separately for the stabs, but everything will be shipped together, correct?
The 1.75u shift needs stabs, right? Never dealt with that size before.