Recent comments in /f/MechanicalKeyboards

a_wifi_has_no_name t1_j6jw578 wrote

To be fair, I just built an Iris, and they don't warn you about using thick plates and hotswap boards. (Luckily, I went with acrylic and solder PCB.) Splitkb does if you use their Composer tool, but I didn't see anything about it anywhere else. If this is your first build, it's an easy mistake to make.

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Myroddian t1_j6jvob1 wrote

@badseedtech (u/badseedtech) I have the R1 but no issues outside of 2 switches. I only needed 83 switches, so I bought the 90 switch size. That means plenty of them to swap out for now. Happy to support the BST community, what’s the info for replacement of it ever becomes an issue? And what was the nature of the problem? Mine was intermittent no presses or in one situation multiple presses, but like I said only on 2 of 90 switches so far.

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Tweetydabirdie t1_j6jsn1t wrote

Sure, I’ll believe that… 😉

Not in any way saying an acrylic plate is a bad choice. It’s just a known issue that the switches isn’t locking. So for a keyboard you move around a lot it might not be the obvious choice.

You can get around it by machining cutouts for the locking tabs into a 3mm acrylic. I tried that once. Only once, and it was a major PITA.

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