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Offline didjamatic

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Can you swap Cherry brown tops onto blacks?
« on: Mon, 28 December 2009, 16:40:16 »
Hmmm, tried searching but wasn't 100% clear (likely due to being pumped full of cold medicine today)

Can you simply pop the switch tops off of Cherry Blacks and install tops of Cherry browns or is this a soldering gun mod?
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Offline itlnstln

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Can you swap Cherry brown tops onto blacks?
« Reply #1 on: Mon, 28 December 2009, 16:50:18 »
Yes.
 
The method in which you do it would depend on the switch mounting.  Plate-mounted 'boards (Filco, Das III, etc.) require soldering.  PCB-mounted 'boards (Cherry Corp.) can be swapped without soldering; you just pop the top.
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« Reply #2 on: Mon, 28 December 2009, 16:54:34 »
Awesome, thank you
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« Reply #3 on: Mon, 28 December 2009, 18:07:27 »
How do you think Cherry switches like that would feel? I haven't heard of people doing that before.
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« Reply #4 on: Mon, 28 December 2009, 18:14:11 »
Quote from: didjamatic;146007
Hmmm, tried searching but wasn't 100% clear (likely due to being pumped full of cold medicine today)

Can you simply pop the switch tops off of Cherry Blacks and install tops of Cherry browns or is this a soldering gun mod?


I would imagine that soldering would prove much quicker if you were doing a full board swap.
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Can you swap Cherry brown tops onto blacks?
« Reply #5 on: Mon, 28 December 2009, 18:44:07 »
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Yes.
 
The method in which you do it would depend on the switch mounting.  Plate-mounted 'boards (Filco, Das III, etc.) require soldering.  PCB-mounted 'boards (Cherry Corp.) can be swapped without soldering; you just pop the top.


Thanks for info. I was curious about this too.
btw, what about Scorpius M10 ? Is it PCB-mounted?
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« Reply #6 on: Mon, 28 December 2009, 20:42:42 »
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Scorpius M10 ? Is it PCB-mounted?


Yes. Linky
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« Reply #7 on: Tue, 29 December 2009, 05:59:31 »
The pics don't show it but there is metal plate mounting. Looking at a modded one it doesn't look like you can remove the cap without desoldering from the board.
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« Reply #8 on: Tue, 29 December 2009, 07:42:00 »
Quote from: dougy;146139
The pics don't show it but there is metal plate mounting. Looking at a modded one it doesn't look like you can remove the cap without desoldering from the board.

You can see if you look between the keys, that a Scorpius M10 is actually plate-mounted. Just looking at the back of the PCB isn't going to show you much.
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« Reply #9 on: Tue, 29 December 2009, 09:01:27 »
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How do you think Cherry switches like that would feel? I haven't heard of people doing that before.

Like crap.  I did a switch swap on the spacebar of one of my 'boards (putting a grey spring in a brown switch).  The brown with the grey spring lost almost any tactility it had.  It pretty much feels like a black.
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« Reply #10 on: Tue, 29 December 2009, 12:57:44 »
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You can see if you look between the keys, that a Scorpius M10 is actually plate-mounted. Just looking at the back of the PCB isn't going to show you much.


oh crap. so no keyswitch swapping with M10 without soldering ?
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