My Logitech G15 keyboard's enter key died yesterday. Since I had to open it up for repair, I decided to mod it too. Mine is a 1st gen G15. The 1st gen G15's came with a lousy quality silver paint on the top part. Most of them start to rub off at the palm areas just below the bottom left Windows key. It leaves an ugly grey patch there. U'll c the ugly grey patch in a later pic once I start to dissamble the kb.

Anyway, let's get on with the mod. Started by flipping the kb onto the back so I can remove all the big black screws.









Then I popped the top piece off.









Removed all the wires n popped off the main keyboard.









Flip it around n u'll c a clear acrylic piece that diffuses the light from the blue LEDs that gives the keys a nice even glow. Remove the 13 chrome screws on that piece and the kb contact n silicone piece comes off.










After removing the chrome screws u can remove the contact n silicone pad. I also removed all the keys at the same time. There's an amazing amount of dust that gets caught in there i tell u.



This post has been edited by ianho: Jan 16 2008, 09:24 AM

This is the silver piece with the lousy paint. Look at the silver paint in the red circle. It's completely rubbed off to the grey base. I've been wanting to remove everything so I can repaint the silver piece. Luckily I haven't had the time to do so. Or else I would haf had to do everything all over again after the Enter key died. After removing all the parts I took all the non electrical parts into the bathroom and gave them a good bath. My G15 was came out from the spa all refreshed after that.












After a proper cleaning n sum surface preparation on the silver piece, I painted it in pearl white color.










It's very hard to get pearl white to show in pictures so I did a macro shot for u guys to really see the pearl white paint. Normal distance pics make it look like normal gloss white. For those who r curious about the painting process to achieve this. It's 4 layers of gloss white to make sure the base coat is a nice even white. Then 2 layers of pearl white n finally 2 layers of clear coat on top to protect the pearl paint. The painting is really tedious. 8 coats of paint with 30 minutes drying time between coats. That's 4 hours just on drying time! After that I left it to dry properly overnight b4 reassembly.











I started the reassembly this morning by popping all the keys back in.










Almost there, all keys reassembled.

This step is very important for u fellas planning to try this on ur own. Make sure u reassemble the keys properly. The long buttons like Space n Shift for eg. haf a metal bar thingy there to ensure a nice even keystroke. U hafta make sure u assemble it back properly like the pic below or the keys will lose the nice even keystroke.









After that I put the contact pads back on.









All done.










Last step is to plug it into the PC n pray....................................











I'm very happy to report that I've managed to bring the Enter key back to life. Fortunately it was a dirty contact. I cleaned it with alcohol n it works perfectly now. Everything else like the all important LCD works perfectly too. That was the thing I was most worried about as a lot of mods on the G15 have dead LCDs due to careless handling. I handled mine with kid gloves to make sure everything works after reassembly. I'm so happy now. After a year of heavy usage, the G15 was looking really beat up n dirty. It now looks spanking new with a new coat a pearl white paint to boot. Now all u fellas with expired warranties................. GOGOGO. What r u waiting for?

Wahaha, nice job and good touch up
I guess no one could it better than uncle ianho

Whoa.... finally mod ur own G15.. hmm.. got to say it looks very nice.. now can match ur Rig.. haha..
took u 1 day to do everything?

Very nice touch!
What's that red button above the arrow keys that you removed?

that is just simply a red button for fun lol..panic button
nice mod on there, it really contrast between the white and and the black

even the keyboard also cannot escape the hand of mad doctor..........

uncle ianho, next item inline for the surgery is which ???

This post has been edited by LExus65: Oct 19 2007, 02:17 PM

his G9.. hahahaha...

Ya it takes 1 whole day plus 1 day drying time after final coat of paint. So it's actually a 2 day process.




It's a panic button. Press oni it will eject me to Bali for a nice holiday!




Mebe. Mebe. who knows.

Soon ur guy's will saw Ianho brand product selling at all IT Market.....

"PIMP MY RIG" IANHO!!!!

Haha .. nice work

Ask Kit to market it in Thundermatch lar. I gif him 1st priority.

Panic button..thats one panic button I wouldn't mind 'accidentally' pressing a few times... lol..

where u get the white pearl paint from?

Uncle will has his own brand soon?

oi uncle, wt happen to the panic button!!!!

dude....that's a freaking cool stuff!

Stil lookin live n kicking arse..

freakin nice mod..

darn the white n black match perfectly...nice nice..but separating up an expensive keyboard need a lot of guts leh.haha

i also wan that kara

sishh one thing i canno deny
still think ianho is the best modder i have seen..

damn clean and pro looking

i wonder how it looks like when it sprayed black.

I guess "practice make perfect" & passionate to mod as well...

black wud be my cup of tea
but pearl white seems delicious~
i wonder if i can just transform saitek to an all black masterpiece

bro last time i also counter same problem wif ur G15 the silver paint blur ady sum of the key sudenly just die but not yet more tan 1 year...

then i decide to repair my self however the sad thing is the LCD plak die.... maybe cause of my careless handling.... then reattach back then sent for warranty...

luckily still can claim warranty if not i sure die liao....

Awesome work bro..really looks nice to match up with ur atp3 speakers lol..nice combination..

Panic Button can press it?

haha its very much dirty rite when open it..summo will get a bunch of screws n button coz its separate piece by piece really take long long time for me oso to mod it with carbon sticker at last u manage to mod urs..thx coz the enter button havin prob..if not u lazy to mod it

Ya lor, I oni modded it coz I had to open it up to fix the Enter button. Or else no time to mod the KB.

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Added on November 2, 2007, 2:22 pmMine doesnt actually work. Just for sum fun. BUT if u want, u can always replace 1 of ur real buttons to make it work. Mebe use it on the Delete button? Nice n bright red so u never panic n accidentally press it n POOOF all work deleted.

This post has been edited by ianho: Nov 2 2007, 02:22 PM

must put a countdown timer screen b4 ur files deleted. plus also the siren use in ambulance, flashing the whole room red in colour.

yea...gotta agree...

and he doesn't go...LASER PRECISION CUT all the time...etc etc...
just simple explaination with good photos....

=) no pun intended.

hehe but still prefer black rather than white but since im not gud in painting i've mod my G15 to CF sticker



but my bad that time no digicam to snap all the process

This post has been edited by mfcm: Nov 7 2007, 10:56 PM

@ianho: Maybe can try replacing the lights with other colours...

I love the blue LEDs lar. Y wud I change them? That's part of the reason y I dont like the new G15 coz it's amber LEDs n the lousy small lil fixed position LCD.

Just a suggestion for ppl dun like blue color... Something fresh...

LOL..This is really going to match your full white setup like the ATP3..LOL..

Nice one there. Time to put your King Kong to white as well...

i got do the same but i just give a bath only!

something "blue-er" perhaps? it seems like the LED is quite dim..

Mayb green or red... That also can.... I mean some ppl just feel sick of looking at blue colour coz almost all products out there has blue colour also.... I'm one of them....

For me, I prefer green or orange.... Damn nice la.... Something special mah.... Mayb ianho can mod for me if I get my new keyboard liao.... Hahaha!!!

I still prefer blue colour. Blue led lights up better at night. Just my 2 cents

does the G15 show any other thing other than this RAM and CPU thingy and the time?? i saw the preview can show how many bullets left when u playing game, but cannot also..

This post has been edited by SpongeY: Nov 30 2007, 01:19 AM

U must hav an applet to run certain features..... Also must check whether the game supports or not.... According to the game developers, most likely the newer games will support it....

haiya I shown this so many times oredi. NVM I show again.



This is the most useful thing about the G15. All the other features I never use. I oni use this feature to monitor my system to make sure everything is ok.

haha nice !

haha nice. i also just open my G15 yesterday to clean up the dust.damn scary 1st time open. cos the lcd screen wire part is damn damn damn hard to connect back.just took some picture when i open it.n let u guys c wat my screen showing now.
i dun wan to spray it bcos feel hurt if after spray look ugly.cos it so expensive for me.

bro where to get that features

d@ng!.. this make me feel wanna get 1 for me

really nice la G15 K/B

beli je sebijik..bonus raya with Xmas masuk kn bulan nih?

It's A Only 1Unit In Malaysia?

wow...
u really rich man bro...
dare to mod that expensive keyboard lorr...

It's using a combination of LCD Studio, Speedfan n Rivatuner to achieve that custom made screen.





Yes of course. The only Pearl White Apple Edition G15.









Anyway, uploading the G15 Stealth Bomber now. Shud be up in a while.

Here's another mod I did yesterday after I finished with my MX510 mod. I call it the G15 Stealth Bomber.
I wont go into too much detail as it has been covered at the beginning of this thread.




Here's the new G15 after I dismantled everything for cleaning.
















After I painted it. Notice how it doesn't shine even in the extremely bright lighting conditions?


















Here's y it doesn't shine. I painted it a special way. I call it Stealth Black. It's a textured kinda flat black. I discovered it's very, very hard to take pics of it as I had to take about 20 shots b4 I cud pick out these few pics where u can c the texture. Even with my camera's macro mode turned on it was really hard to capture it. The paint is so dark n non reflective, it's extremely difficult for the camera to focus on the surface.
















That's it for now. I will reassemble the G15 later n update again.

i bet mADmAN surely wanted his G15 to be like this... BLACK

well, me myself too... the grey part faded and thinking this black stealth is the best option

, uncle... is it new unit?

This post has been edited by sniper69: Jan 16 2008, 09:26 AM

Ya. mADmAN is definitely gonna love this G15.

oh my oh my oh my oh my oh my...... that just redefines sexiness...

now THAT, ladies and gentlemen, IS A KEYBOARD!!!

cant wait to see the assembled pic......

ya after saw the paint i also wan to make my keyboard like tat......

wheeeeee. Just assembled everything back. Will post the complete Stealth G15 2moro.

wow cannot wait ady to see full assemble one....

Very nice..love the colour very very much...can't wait!

Wokeh. Here's it is all done except the keys.

















All done.

















I did a Ying Yang shot with my Pearl White G15. Havent had the time to do both G15 in same color. I love the color so much, I'll be changing the Pearl White G15 into black as well.



This post has been edited by ianho: Jan 19 2008, 01:28 AM

HHHUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!

SO CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNN!!!!

hallo uncle, could u post a pic of the black G15 with the keys lighted? thanks.

Beautiful work uncle. I think not very long, u'll get a long list of G15 owners asking for the similar paint job.

Oh, wanna ask, if we put our hands on the paint for a long period of time, will it wear out like the original grey color ?

damn cunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn rr uncle

nice job man

WAH!! I already feel like sending my to uncle for modding

wow nice really nice mod unc ian

is it possible to change the led to red ???

cus my copperhead is red and i dun really feel like pairing it up with a blue keyboard

1 word to describe it=FANTASTIC!

hehe i think np..but if still waranty then it mite b abit hard if anythin happen then

@ian
really nice mod ur hv done

im not uncle but since ive taken back the keyboard..... heres the pix u requested..

with lights on.. (my camera not good in bad lighting)


lights off


an extra beauty shot

mADmAN , your keyboard is damn owning! thanks for the pic!

nice. i want to make mine into black too!!! silver looks so noob.
but i suck at painting. maybe just some carbon fibre stickers?

haha but by coloring the keyboard like what unc ian has done the warranty also voided liao right ?

EXTREME BEAUTY there mADmAN...

And now, thats a keyboard. At first, i feel that the Lycossa is more beautiful than the G15. With this mod, the G15 is 100% nicer than the Razer...

If only uncle is going to mod the new G15 and see whether its as beautiful or not...

can it be done in yellow?!

Problem is, I much prefer this old G15 to the new 1. If I liked the new G15 I wud haf bought it n modded it the minute it arrived in LYP. I love the rotary volume control, bigger LCD and blue LEDs on the old 1.





Of course, it's just a matter of choosing a color u fancy. Even pink color oso can. Now, that I really wanna see. Who's gonna be 1st in LYN with a pink G15 Tinkerbell?

pink G15? i think you should promote to mADmAN here, introduce her his (mADmAN's G15), and paint pink

eh, new G15 got smaller LCD? didn't notice that...

u n ur pink...even when i was asking ur opinion on which shade of black to put oso u answer pink

make urs pink la...no need make black

hmmm after saw uncle ianho's work on this, i'm also thinking to spray my Eclipse II to black color also

The special thing about the black on the Stealth Bomber G15 is the texture, not the color.

yup agree tat y i really interested to ask u to mod for me....
need to see my free time uncle then wan to meet u

omg omg !! poisons !!! noooooooooooo

uncle, how much u charge ah for the repainting
im totally drooling now, i might get 1 and ship it straigt to u for painting lol.

hhaha... im oso think to spray my el cheapo wireless kb...

hmm what colour suit??

need to sand paper throuh the kb arrea r before spray??

PINK color!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Be the 1st in LYN.

lol it would be nice................

uncle how did u wash the keyboard... using hot water?
and then did you spray any base paint like white color? becoz i feel like modding it as well! in yellow!

Ok... after a hard days work... here you go feast your eyes on these!!!!

My G15 Bumblebee hahaha and it's mouse companion!

sorry if i tumpang your forum.. dun wan add more forums like this..

thanks!

wow nice bro how many layer u paint? hehe match with ur mouse paint oso?

, nice... eh, you're not disassemble everything aight? i saw some white spot around those keys ? just cover with newspaper eh... , but still it's a good work and 1st in LYN... a yellow G15

i did disassemble everything. I used masking tapes around the are that i dont want it be yellow. And then 4 layers of paint. Well my 3rd time sparying a keyboard but this time it turned up quite well i think. But minor hickup with the LEDs.

bumblebee but why superman wan? put la transformers sticker

tak jumpa liao! good idea also! haha i will find 1

wah
keyboard also can mod ?
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so pro