Honestly? The cheapest option is probably to find a friend who has a decent iron and borrow it (costs ranging from nothing to a pint or three, depending on the friend)
The nice thing about having a tool like that, you can use it for lots of different projects so it will eventually pay for itself.Well, I just ordered one anyway, better to ask forgiveness than permission sometimes ???
...because of a lack of personal free time and space to assemble it in peace.
Yes, children make it difficult, especially when you have 2 boys under 4 and the wife works opposite schedule from you Monday through Thursday so you gotta parent alone after work. I feel your pain ?This. I have 1 SFF case ready to be used, and 2 keyboards ready to be assembled.
But living with a toddler is hard, it's very hard to find personal free time & space.
It would take me so long to learn how to use that thing that I would never be able to actually get it working. Looks awesome in its own way though, just far too few keys to be practical, especially for those of us using languages with more than 26 lettersMeet my 36-key (35%?) daily driver, GergoPlex.
It uses low-profile Kailh Choc mechanical switches.
Layout https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/pull/8928/files#diff-0e9d71e8f0c811ab90aeea8e5e2e4470R34
Talking about LP... the Keychron K1 (edit: and K2, K4, K6, K8) is coming to my country supposedly soon next month.
It'll be available with Gaterons, and since I like the full size reds, well.
Anyone tried/liked that keyboard and switches ? I find hard to believe LP is too short for gaming, unless people mean 'for brütal gaming', idk.
Lots of opinions about the K1 or other LP regard typing, hardly gaming.
To tide me over until I can build a custom kb, I purchased some Tai Hao keycaps and dielectric grease to spruce up my Drevo Caliber a little bit. I must say, I do like the feel of these keycaps, and they were inexpensive at $40. I liberally applied the grease on the stabs, and my god did it make a huge difference. This also proved to me that I will definitely be lubing the switches, as now the majority of any rattling is from the switches themselves (and perhaps keycaps bottoming out). Overall, I am pretty happy with it, but really looking forward to doing a custom job. Wife said it sounded more like a "winter project" when I brought it up, so there is hope
They are plate mounted, so just generous amounts of grease to lube her up lolNice. Don't forget to do the band-aid mod as well if your stabs are PCB-mounted.
Even if they are plate mounted I would do the band-aid mod. Clip, bandaid, and if they have any wiggle in the plate itself I would wrap a small piece of bandaid on the edge of the plate where the stab comes in contact to stop it from moving around. IMO it's worth it for the little extra work to silence any potential rattles from the stabilizers.They are plate mounted, so just generous amounts of grease to lube her up lol
Even if they are plate mounted I would do the band-aid mod. Clip, bandaid, and if they have any wiggle in the plate itself I would wrap a small piece of bandaid on the edge of the plate where the stab comes in contact to stop it from moving around. IMO it's worth it for the little extra work to silence any potential rattles from the stabilizers.
Yeah I tried electrical tape but it's hard to get it to stay where I wanted it to without making the stab stick. I could try again, but the dielectric grease seems to have reduced 99.9% of the sound from the stabs. They are plate mounted but the switches are soldered on and I would rather not screw around with that. I have read about lubing switches and to be careful with clicky ones especially with getting a lot of lube on them which reduces the tactility/clickiness of the switch. I won't be trying that on my current board though, it is reasonable now with the sound, although I might get O rings since I tend to bottom out sometimes. May do some sort of insulation in the case to help with any echoing as well. Just cheapy mods for this kb lol