Rule of thumb: If its too good to be true, it probably is

Try to contact the seller via wangwang, see if he's gonna tell you why his stuff is so cheap. If he's shitting you, then move along.

Which keyboard are you pulling?

Without desoldering on a Plate mounted board you want to pull a swtich? Brave.
The videos are demoed on PCB mounted boards, where changing the spring/stem is much easier.

Maybe you should start your own DT35 Fanclub and stop threadcrapping here

The BW, is a decent keyboard for its price, a starter Mech Keyboard I'd say. But thats not the point of the discussion, and some people do disagree.

Comparing switches then proceed to tell which one is better is an opinion, not a fact. I like using my Model M, and i do enjoy brown switches. Model M are heavier than brown switches, thats a fact. But I can't say which one is better either, but if you make me choose, I'd choose the brown for it's noise qualities, but that is my opinion.

Some people may say not all brown switch keyboard are made the same. Try comparing plate mounted vs PCB mounted. I have a plastic plate mounted ALPS keyboard and the feeling is definitely different

And I had a friend telling me his MX browns sucks and proceed to use the apple aluminium keyboard. So what? He doesn't appreciate it, let him be.
But I digress, the point in this thread is to discuss Mech Keyboards. So what if users here own DT35. I don't see people here talking about clothes, since all of us wear clothes. Nothing wrong with comparing Domes vs Mech switches, but spreading Dome love in here, a cheap one at that, maybe you two DT35 lovers should go spread it in them /Gaming Keyboards/ or start your own fanclub

This post has been edited by kaiserreich: Jun 8 2011, 12:03 PM

Like cyclone said, you need to try them to tell which one you will like.
Black switches, when you are mashing away the keys on the board,would not be so silent compared to domes, if you are basing the silence on that.
Why not use you're friend's BWU for a few rounds and see if you like that. If you do, then jump in, and pull the trigger. Otherwise go try the SS 6GV2.

You could probably try them browns at Lowyat, on the FILCO, but admittedly those are on the upper end of your budget. Read back few posts and you'll see that the Tenkeyless board went for RM390. Unless you absolutely must have a numpad, that's a pretty decent price for a FILCO.

If you must have reds/clears if you want these, you'd need to import, for the time being anyway.

Your keycaps looked pretty used up, moving anytime soon to KBC PBTs?
Are those switches from storm88?, nevermind, it is indeed from Storm

This post has been edited by kaiserreich: Jun 8 2011, 11:23 PM

Just need to desolder everything and change.
Taking MX switches out is not that hard compared to ALPS switches. I desoldered my AT101W with black ALPS, took me a quite a while to do that, and in the process, damaged a few PCB traces

Nice
It took me quite fast to desolder these switches, but taking them out was a real pain due to the solder still sticking to the traces. Any pointers on that?

Yes and Yes, a brand new one at that. Prolly need some metal braid to go with the residual solder stuck between the pin and the side of hole
Maybe my skills are just not up to par, practice makes perfect.

My next mod is probably on a plate mounted one for ergo clears, no soldering iron needed.

Yeap, and I thought those solders with flux built in are enough. Also, I realized the MX switches are easier to deolsder due to the straight pins.
My fraustration came from them ALPS switches where the pins are bent before they are soldered on, making them hard to desolder.

Anyway, your 6gv2 mod, any reason why you layout this way? Or you did it for teh lulz?

Basically resoldering a new controller into it.

The controller is sufrace mount type, so I reckon it is quite challenging to solder it on. Maybe you can pay someone to do it.

Sending a parcel that is 2KG to china cost RM62.40 so says the pos malaysia website.
You can insure it at Rm1.50 per Rm100 value of your item, so shipping it back cost about RM70~
Shipping it back via agent is another RM40?

For that price of RM100, minus some for the postage fees to ship the controller to Malaysia, you could probably save some time and money by paying someone else to solder it for you, as another option. But since you insist on sending it back, then get the item insured, and it should be alright, though Pos Malaysia + China Post might end up taking a rather long time

Those keys are very beautiful and totally worth it.
Maybe should do another bulk, but this time include the black on red and white on red 2 shots from SP as well

What white line thing?
Care to show some pictures on what you mean?

This post has been edited by kaiserreich: Jun 18 2011, 10:22 AM

Stick a Cherry G84 on top of your laptop keyboard then

Black widow is too expensive for him, i don't think any of these would fit his budget at all.

You can actually close it now. Just one more post to go.

@Cyclone, maybe you can consider putting it up at GH and see who wants to bite the Leopold