PHANTOM Plates (Shipped)

[Juice]

Do you have any leftovers? preferably steel/ansi/TKL.

[chzel]

PM'ed!

[quochung1989]

Received plates. It is very good. Thanks for great job, chzel.







P/s: However there are some very little scratchs but it 's not problem for me.

[dorf]

Do you have any leftovers? preferably steel/ansi/TKL.

+1 though I'm looking for steel/iso/tkl

[dR.Ugz]

well, once Canada Post got their heads out of one anothers asses! They finally finished shipping me my plate.
it sat idle for the last 10 days! I'm surprised they didn't manage to bend it.

it looks great! job well done chezl!

Thnx again for all your hard work!!
....now i wonder how much longer my switches are going to sit idle for! damn Canada Post! **shakes fist**

[chzel]

Leftovers HERE!

Thank you guys for the great experience!
To the few who haven't got them yet, please update as they come!

[meow a cat]

All four plates arrived today!

Everything looks great, not even slightly bent. Thanks Chzel! Really pleased with how this GB went, great work!

One question I had for the aluminum plates, should these be painted to prevent corrosion? Or is the finish on them good to go as-is?

[chzel]

Thanks Meow!
Aluminium creates an oxide really fast in contact with air, and that oxide protects it from further corrosion, so it'll be perfectly fine unpainted!

[MichaelBrock]

I had some issues with a backwards diode, one bad switch, and a short due to a nick in the insulation but I have the "prototype" complete (typing on it now). I'm going to build another case in better wood and at least 5mm shorter. This one was more of a proof of concept.

[chzel]

Oh..Nice! Do you have built any inclination in the base?
BTW, where did you get the blockers?

[MichaelBrock]

There is no inclination in the case itself. My plan is to add rubber feet to the back. Those aren't acutall blockers, just flat keys. I did buy blockers also though, in case the flat keys didn't work. I typically find the arrow keys by feel rather than sight and wanted something that would distinguish them from the surrounding keys. I bought both the blockers & flat keys from Signature Plastics (the only place I could find either):

http://keyshop.pimpmykeyboard.com

[meow a cat]

Built my Phantom last weekend, and I'm typing on it now. Really happy with it, thanks for making this possible Chzel!







The only thing weird is that I can't seem to get my 2U stabilized switches (backspace, enter, shifts) to open up. They open up just fine on my other Phantom. The cutout isn't quite short enough at the top, and blocks the switch from opening. Not the end of the world, but kind of destroys the magic of the cutouts for me, since if I don't want to de-solder then I'll have four switches that don't match. No biggie though, I doubt I'll be changing anything more than once. Was this an earlier version of the Phantom plate design?

[chzel]

Looking nice and blue! REALLY blue!
I used the DXF's from the wiki page for the [wiki]Phantom[/wiki].
I think it is a known issue with this style of cutouts? The same with plate mount Cherry stabs not clipping.

[Muirium]

Tasteful.

[MichaelBrock]

I had issues with the stabilized switches on mine as well. I found that the cilps had a little lateral movement and needed a little tweaking to make sure that they were parallel to each-other and the sides of the plate. Adjusted in that way and they went from barely working, to working well.

I just found that I have another bad switch, or I have a short somewhere. Turns out I was pretty sloppy with my handling of the wires and there are quite a few nicks in my wire insulation. It looks good though!

[strafe]

My replacement plate came in this week. There was a small dent near the spacebar switch but should be easy to push out (I have been having a bad run with Australia Post lately).. Thanks for running this group buy chzel .

[dorf]

Work in progress. Thanks Chzel!