Sangeo 65

What’s the purple one?

Same. I was like, who lubes brown switches? Those go in the bin.

Considering they miss about 80% of firearms when tested, I wouldn't be surprised. TSA is theater.

How do you make it through security with this and I get stopped by TSA for a banana.

A true madman! It's definitely a great way to kill time, but this would go so poorly if I even tired.

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sorry for this experience.

when I started in this hobby, i was taught to test the pcb first before building.

🤢🤮

Please people for the love of all things holy, check your PCB before you do anything with it. This isn't JUST to protect you from vendors in the event your PCB is faulty. It's also to save you from completing a build (worse with solder, especially mill max) and realizing after troubleshooting that your PCB is a dud.

I recently had a Derivative PCB that was acting funny after I put it together. You know what the saving grace was? That the PCB was fine during testing. All the other troubleshooting steps came AFTER since I knew where to start. I didn't damage any pads or traces, daughterboard/JST cable swap didn't fix the issue, and I used flux for the first time. Ultimately found that flux got onto a diode and pulled some solder onto it.

Checking your PCB prior will allow you to troubleshoot and save you a lot of stress, headache, grief, effort, and time.

The kind of keyboard a person that learned COBOL just to brag would have. Exclusively uses Vim.

Yeah, I'd even start with recording the box it came with to show that it hasn't been opened or tampered with before I actually cut the tape open lol

Edit: forgot to add that I'd spin the box around to show the tapes are all still sealed and secured haha

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Passenger: Whatcha got there?

OP: Some switches-- they're made of POM!

Other Passenger: HE SAID HE'S GOT A BOMB!

Nice!

Dude, at one point I may have thought that's going overboard, but now...😅

lol, I was thinking of this same exact video. Cleaned with 99% isopropyl underneath the keys and there were a bunch of hairs stuck between the switches and chassis I had to pluck one by one...barf

I've never used them before but I'm definitely going to remember. KBDfans has always been really good for me, as well as Demkeebs and Prevail.

It's unfortunate when businesses don't actually care about their customers.

Where's your tv?

Is this even "40%" any more 😂 Also which community? I'm tempted to jump into under 60 territory

Prebuilt gang, baby :D

All jokes aside, I haven’t had a chance to try anything like that yet, but I’m excited to actually build my first keyboard. I’m looking forward to the headaches

Looking at this photo gives me panic attack. (Imagine dropping a spring/stem on the plane and never being able to find it…)

It's all part of the hobby. I find it relaxing. Put some music on that hifi.. relax and get into the flow :)

Yeah, it took me 10 hours to lube all the keys in my TKL keyboard ... and I need to redo half of them because I did it on two different days and the sound is inconsistent....

There's no way I would risk it on a tiny tray table hurtling through the sky