Since my wife spends a bit of her time at work in front of a computer, I decided it was time to upgrade her from the super dirty, worn out chicklet style microsoft board she has. I was going to do a QFR for her, but since she uses the number pad a lot, I decided to go full sized. The timing was perfect as I had just met heroinbob at a local meetup and he noted that he had a ton of these Cherry boards in various condition, but all with either mx browns or mx clears. I decided to go with the clears. I had intention of modding the board to remove the card slider, but just ran out of time. I am still working on the modded case (heroinbob was awesome and sent a spare for me to play with) and will add it at a later date. For now, I decided to do a clean paint job and change out the stock laser printed caps for some Tai Hao Dolch caps. I still need to get some black blanks to swap for all the relengendables, but that isn't a big deal to me right now. Special thanks to n__dles for sending me the ISO kit. One issue I ran into was the cable. I had some vinyl dye that I used years ago for some car trim and decided to use that to change the color of the cable to black. Unfortunately, the dye reacted with the rubber and now a week later, still has not cured all the way. I am hopeful that it will eventually cure and be good to go. It currently still has just a bit of tack to it, but not coming off or leaving marks.
Thank you again to heroinbob for the huge hookup on the G80 and n__dles for the missing ISO kit. Also and thank you to retrochick for the incoming metallic red Cherry logo sticker that will finish it off nicely.
