deskthority

ive done that switch swapping on my steelseries 7g (platemounted aswell) and i can tell you it was a rather simple
yet time consuming (if u wanted to swap all switches like i did) task.
Eventhough i had no experience in soldering before it proved to be no problem.

if i told anyone of such a buy id get a kick in the guts. What is wrong with buying expensive things? Pay your bills, make sure your family has everything they need. Have savings. Buy nice things for yourself. What is the point of working if you don't? thats because for me this buy is about a full ...

i couldnt type on this because im not using the normal 10finger typing :F if i told anyone of such a buy id get a kick in the guts.

i hardly use my pinky on my left hand and my third + pinky on my right hand while typing :f

i just now noticed i should have made my post above a little more questionable.
all i wrote is pure speculation and afaik ive never typed on a tope board before so i cant make out the similarities or differences.

hm it uses the bigass enter key just as my SS7G, i think the only "mechanical" thing about this is the white plastic slider which pressures the rubberdome instead of the keycap itself doing it on other rubberdomes.

haha success!!! i made it now i have a superloud clicky and easy to activate keyboard.
now its all about getting used to it lol.

the controller is not on the board itself its seperate and connected with the pins (on picture above lower left corner)
but i dont know what else is provided by the tenkey part so i better dont overextend

Ich habs gewagt und meine MX blacks rausgelötet und nun blues eingesetzt,
muss aber noch die Verbindungen anlöten.
http://deskthority.net/keyboards-f2/thi ... tml#p82023

Ok so i have a little update: I switched out the mx blacks on my SteelSeries 7G with blues i bought here on this board: http://i.imgur.com/ASaZI.jpg Looks like a new keyboard to me :). Just need to solder the joints and im back! http://i.imgur.com/ETxHG.jpg im just not sure whether to use a black sp...

damn thats too expensive for me

actually its the other way around and i have spare keyset but no keyboard to put it on

How much did u pay for it and is it available with blues aswell?

cant find either of them im germany unfortunately, only the QFR but with red switches only.

Poor G80. Too bad you have steelseries. You should sell that and get a nice plate board with ISO and use the doubleshots of the G80 on it. It's what I would do. They are the best keycaps around afterall. Thats not a bad idea considering i dont like the backspace on the SS7G but i do like the wrist ...

actually i rly thought about selling the keycaps cuz it seems 1.5x DS modifier (or was it 1.25x?) arent common (no idea tho).
Ill line them up on a sheet and take a picture so ppl can get an idea about condition.
A new G80 is no option for me, the wibby wobbily case was just ebarassing.

I trained some shaolin monk technique which is usually practiced with ones head and a brick ^^

But actually i just tripped the wire and stepped on it >_<

so these bridges dont serve any purpose but closing the contact for a LED spot?

Well, its just a simple wirebridge on every switch, so no diodes or anything special:

Yea i know about the diodes (and on my 7G they are empty) but why has every switch a wirebridge on that g80?
What does this wirebridge do?

Anyways i was kinda astounded why every switch was connected with 4 pins, so wirebridge and normal pins.
Anyone can explain this?

Thanks for your offer, i will come back to it during next week as i want to see how my customization goes first.
I know i dont have to desolder switches to change the interior on g80 boards but my customization is on a plate mounted 7G
and why should i let switches on a broken G80 PCB.

Uh well, i think it overestimated the stability (guess thats why id require a plate mounted board tbh). It was a G80-3000HPMDE from 2001 if IIRC but ill check that lateron again, PS2 it is. It was a good opportunity to learn some soldering since im about to switch from black to blue on my SS7G. But ...

So i had a little accident with my cherry g80-3000:


Im so sad right now...

the g80 3000 are all pcb mounted (afaik) and are easily opened without any desoldering.

MIt 30€ kann ich denke ich leben.
Ich werde wohl weiterhin die Augen hier im Marktplatz aufhalten, vielleicht
verkauft ja jemand lediglich eine Platine mit blue switches, wo jemand die
keycaps behält.

Ok, wegen den Lögutensilien werde ich demnächst mal Conrad aufsuchen, allerdings habe ich gehofft,
dass ich unter 50€ an meine switches komme .

Hallo, ich möchte gerne bei meiner SS7G die MX Black switches mit blues oder vielleicht blue stems mit black springs (ghetto green?) modifizieren. Da es sich ja um einen plate mount handelt ist das ganze also nicht ganz so einfach, aber ich werde es trotzdem probieren, da mir die blacks auf dem Boar...

i told you it may have some cons

well you aswell try to find a model m spacesaver i think it has a stepped caps aswell but i heard they are hard to come by
and they are probably as stiff as your alps back then