my fren recommend me ComGateway
i intend to use that if i were to do any purchase from US. currently i am eyeing 5 Mass Effect figurines from biowarestore.com but the shipping for 5 of them is almost the price of the figurines itself funny thing is, it's USD$12 in biowarestore and RMB2xx in taobao...the same exact ones

but the only thing i wasn't sure from comgateway is that whether the shipment is trackable or not as they have both standard and express.

newegg malaysia?

fuhhhh....this thread laju sangat! semua beli mkb spam kat sini if not /k/

no links to ur siggy?

v17 started in 28 October...belum sampai 1 month already v18

and fuhhh....suddenly seeing many new names here

don't like gold colour.
i'll probably end up spraying my ducky case white.
and find 4 novelty keycaps for the top right 4 buttons.

shine 3 tkl belum sampai, how to sell it as used?
but i think he is looking for any shine that is acceptable and within his budget

ahh...singapore? good for u
yeah, i'm so glad i didn't sell off my dk9008 shine 2 also
gonna mod it soon

it appears to be sinking because the gold alu top case is just sitting on top of an actual ducky.

hmm...although my cable is long, but i have a usb hub on my table, so i just tie up the cable together with the velcro cable tie and plug to my usb hub. short short, want to take out also easy

below RM300, locally u can get Ducky Zero or Rosewill RK9000, but most of us here would recommend u to go RK9000 for a new unit within that budget range.
if u are more adventurous and can stretch ur budget a bit more, get ikbc f104 as mentioned by our 016 brother.
that is great build keyboard for a mid-range with excellent value for money due to it's top quality keycaps material and "acceptable" design/font (and u get 1 more set of 104 keycaps for FREE!)

gaming mecha's price is high because of gimnicks and brand name. (kinda like buying overpriced nike shoe that comes with poor quality)
other mecha keyboard's price is high (or low) because they focus more on build quality and using standard layout.


all gaming mecha keyboard will have this fate. some normal mecha keyboard with stock backlit will also suffer this same fate.


this is what most normal mecha keyboard can do.

little to no restrictions in modding keycaps design!
almost all after market keycaps will be suitable for normal mecha keyboard!

but if it's gaming mecha keyboard.
u may change the keycaps with after market keycaps.
but u'll face problem at the CTRL WINKEY ALT SPACEBAR row.
because 90% of gaming mecha keyboards comes with non-standard layout. so the aftermarket keycaps set wouldn't be able to fit in.
u'll need to compromise here n there or get novelty 1x size keycaps for winkey n fn.
and probably mixture of 1.25x modifier and 1.5x modifier, depending on the board's layout.

pad printed can hilang.
laser etched...that i'm not too sure...but i think it could fade off easily also if the keycaps is using ABS.

if u want un-hilang-able fonts, there's 2 options. one is doubleshot, the other is sublimation dye process that is only found on PBT keycaps, which is pricier than it's ABS counterpart.

that's the first time i hear this on a stock spacebar.
the only time i experience sticking spacebar is when i use keycool spacebar on my ducky.

did u try removing the spacebar and re-insert it back properly?

eh, i can't use f104's spacebar on my ducky.
can't recall if my ducky's spacebar works on f-104 or not...but the reason i dun wan to use ducky's spacebar is because i start to see shine already...my OCD tak boleh accept

because the switch can use 3mm led only and all mkb pcb have 2 lubang for led only.
for the multicolour led, need to have at least 3 pins, some have up to 4 pins. i haven't seen any 3mm led with multicolour change (except for the 7 colour auto colour rotation ones) that has only 2 pins.

but there's a way to mod the board so that u can hot-swap leds without having to desolder it
still...i was wondering whether the LED will be able to sit on the 18b20 pins properly without falling off?

hmm...the f104's doubleshot pbt keycaps isn't really a proper backlit keycaps.
the light is really dim as the molding is not properly distributed well for the light to get through to the words nicely.

that one can. i'm using on my ducky right now, right now having red on white as my modifiers and F5-F8, and the rest is blue on white blue is darn lovely.
sometimes tangan itchy feel like PM-ing feng to ask if he still got green on white and pink on white >.<

those are pre-soldered leds onto boards that has holes for 3 or 4 pin led already.

not using led? guess i misinform...haha

the one in bolded...one word for it... JANGAN!
getting cheap tools will result in higher risk of damaging the board or burning down your house in extreme cases.
either get someone to do it for u, or get good proper tools with a lot of research and watch videos regarding soldering and desoldering. also, practice doing on dummy pcbs or buy some cheap engineering project kit and get hands on experience.

ppl have to make a white case tkl, with proper standard keycaps, and backlit!

u have to find the right agent in Service Notice Board

he was asking for the CHEAPEST way...hence i didn't refer him to cloud directly since cloud isn't the cheapest
but no doubt to me, he's the fastest in both his service and replies.