first time just finished lubing 100 switches. I have to say, i wasnt enjoying it, hella tedious job omg.

i posted here time to time with another account. Now change account because privacy invaded matter

anyway i just built this keyboard
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gateron brown with springs changed to 55g, switch film added, springs lubed with 104, stabs band aid+clip, 4mm eva foam between pcb/backplate and everything else lubed with 205.

A lot of building processes which I thought was easy, turned up to be not. I made tons of mistakes and took very long time messing around with the keyboard . Every thing is quite fun for me except the lubing part.

The major mistakes i did were
- soldering quite a number of switches without the switches fully touching the PCB. Luckily i realized something was wrong before i proceeded to solder more switches. I learnt that it is very difficult to push the switches 'into' the pcb. My fingers are hurt now because of it.

-cutting the foam to put between plate and pcb. I ended up giving up and put nothing in between the plate and pcb. Have to be very precise in cutting the foam to leave enough space for each switch and stabilizers, but I failed miserably. All the shapes i drew by aligning the plate to the foam were all incorrect due to the stretchy nature of the eva foam and also not drawing exactly at the edges using pen. I wasted most of my time here. Here is the showcase of my masterpiece.

I feel that Gat browns lubed are indeed overly light for me as oppose to be using MX Blues which I think is heavy. Might have to change all the switches to heavier ones in the future

I had bought some 3mm LED bulbs, but havent soldered them yet. The led holes are at the lower part of the switches. I tested the leds through the holes with a lithium bat, but the effect is like very disappointing. All the letters/symbols are floating towards upper part of a key cap. I think last time someone asked the same question, but now how ah? I didn't know because I see the mx switches in razer mkb are all upside down one. XD

Also, the taihao keycaps im using dont have R0 1U Ctrl, FN, Alt and numpad 0 & R4 Delete, End and Page Down. I wasn't thinking so thoroughly before this. I think most of the keycaps set doesnt have these, am i right? I read some where people saying have to buy the ortholinear keycap set of a GB/preorder lol. Can any1 give me advice regarding this?

Yes, Melody96 to be exact.

Too much misalignment. Given that I had to close the gap between the switches and the pcb, I was worried that some uneven cut/excess parts of the foam will hinder the placement of the switches because squeeze squeeze squeeze. Actually can just attach trimmed foams (eg 2mm wide, 10cm strip horizontally) onto the back side of the plate, do the same for the vertical lines and leave out the spots for stabs. However, I did not have thin double sided tape with me and I was very exhausted and mad cutting the failed foam. So out of a whim, Idc and decided to skip the plate/pcb foam.

Soldered leds. Learnt the hard way that not all legs orientation are the same. Had to resolder some leds too because they are too “shallow”. Learnt some tricks when desoldering/desoldering, im getting better at it


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Double posting because cant edit prev post.

Thinking of getting thicker non shine through
key caps too. Also backlit effect turns out to be less decent than how I imagined it to be.

Solder you can use 0.8mm or 1mm. If smaller than that, you will have to keep feeding solder to tip; If bigger, you might face difficulty melting the solder. You don't want your solder iron to be too hot too because will damage PCB.

Everglide has 熊猫卫星轴. What is it known as in English? I mean like XXXXX stabilizers, what is the XXXXX?

Are gold plated wire for aesthetic purpose only?

are artisans worth getting? can they be resold later for the same price as the raffle price?

Given that I was using Razer BlackWidow Ultimate 2013 with MX blues, of course it is better, but dont take my word for it as I dont have other boards to compare with. I want to change the switches and add foam in between plate and pcb. Also relubing springs because bag lubing is inconsistent, some keys got the pik pik sound. I bought brass plate + weight, went full ham.

What is your grail full size board?