deskthority

Hey everyone! Haven't posted a new project in a while (college, doh!) but finally, here it is. This saga took place in the course of about 4-5 months.

I had bought a shipping damaged G80-2100, saving it from USPS as they were going to destroy it in order to get insurance money. And I wasn't sure what to do with it. Fix it, but how? The PCB and case were really messed up.








Then it hit me, unsaver time! I knew of one other in existence but documentation was lackluster. So here is my journey.

This got the board running again



Repaired the case with JB Weld plastic epoxy, one little piece at a time





Initial cut




Bridging the seam as well as the shipping damage hole The area of the shipping damage isn't perfect, but considering how warped the case plastic was I'm just happy it's straight





Missing: tons and tons of sanding



Wiring: I programmed a key (on all layers) on the 2100 to be Esc before I cut it since I was losing it with chopping the numpad. I kept the PCB scrap if this programming ever gets reset. Ended up needing to have an IC on a separate cut out section of the PCB for fitment purposes.





Paint wise I ended up needing to do many coats to fill everything in as seen here. Plus more sanding after.



Also, weeks of dry time for it to cure fully underneath the surface. Definitely learned that lesson.



Final coat




Being a German ISO board, I bought a donor board for the US-ISO legends, which included a rare full-size icon mod shift! The PCB has a provision for the full-size shift so it was no big deal to change to. Also red LEDs cause



Finally, the finished product





Hope you enjoyed

Came hard, thanks. Keep the change <3

Not a fan of Cherry really, but that's really pretty. Love the red LEDs - guess that's the cherry on the... the... yeah just nice work!

You certainly did a really great job on bringing this board back to life again considering how horrific the shipping damage was. Such an awesome project and resurection with a beautiful end result. Another Cherry (Un)saved

Good job!

Congratulations! This is excellent work. The battlelimp certainly deserved better than an unceremonious destruction (probably at the hands of the same who damaged it in the first place).

That is a very clean case mod,well done.

Fuck thats amazing. Great job man

So good. Good job, dude!

This is super nice! Great job.

That looks clean. Excellent job saving a board otherwise destined to be scrapped.

Thank you so much for saving it! I thought it was too far gone for repair when I got it but you managed to surprise me with how well done this is!

Happy to see this long and unpleasant story ending in a short and nice keyboard

I daresay you've improved on the original with the symmetrical mod. And those cherry red LEDs!

Good job! glad to see this kind of restorations!

Nice job. This is Awsome!


tellthebell

Look at that 2x2u enter key! I've been looking for one forever

whiffysole wrote: ↑

28 Jul 2019, 06:57

Look at that 2x2u enter key! I've been looking for one forever

You obviously mean the donor board.
Perhaps you can obtain that cap (even if with faded print) from Mattr567, otherwise I could send you a 2x2 Tipro relegendable (FIY, 4 stems accommodating a matrix of 4 switches) for shipping costs (from Germany, mind you).

kbdfr wrote: ↑

29 Jul 2019, 08:48

You obviously mean the donor board.
Perhaps you can obtain that cap (even if with faded print) from Mattr567, otherwise I could send you a 2x2 Tipro relegendable (FIY, 4 stems accommodating a matrix of 4 switches) for shipping costs (from Germany, mind you).

Yes, I meant the donor board. I do have a 2x2u key with the POS stem layout, but I'm wondering how it works on that board. Thanks for the offer though.

whiffysole wrote: ↑

28 Jul 2019, 06:57

Look at that 2x2u enter key! I've been looking for one forever

Just don't say "Latin Enter is the best Enter" in this forum.

Brilliant work. Glad this board got a happy ending.