Actually I got the NCR 80 (made with ABS plastic) and pretty happy with it myself. Only drawback is that there is no option for builds that offer a soft typing experience. Aesthetically it's pretty retro and pleasing.
Honestly it didn't really make much of a difference at all lol: It's a very very tiny difference. I did it because I had a bunch of unused cherry MX silent reds that I had lying around from a fnatic mini steak that I desoldered and replaced with another switch. I decided I might as well use the springs from there since I generally hate the mushy feeling of silent switches
So I ended up not using the shims Because I ended up using another set of stabilizers. I ended up using the owlstabs by owlabs. There's nothing wrong with the cherry stabs, You can pretty much make sure that they sound good by clipping the legs, and doing the holy mod, and I guess using the stabilizer shims provided. I just had some really good luck with the owlstabs in the past with very little work, so I used them. Let me go find you a clip of someone putting the keyboard together with the shims
Interesting... Not even KBD fans used the shims in their instructional video. I also looked up Alexotos steam where he builds and he also doesn't use them. I guess the shims are for if you're using another stabilizer that is built for thicker pcb. Anyways, here's a quick build video from kbdfans if you're interested: ua-cam.com/video/i55MEU1zlUQ/v-deo.html
@@mtsslippy1015 me personally, I used owlstabs lubed with krytox 205 g0 on the housing and permatex on the wires. But... TX stabs seem better in my opinion. I think you can use the same lubes and it would sound amazing. If you put in the TX stabs and screw them in and they seem to be a bit wobbly or they seem rattley, you can put the shims in between the pcb and bottom of the stab. This will artificially increase the thickness of the pcb so that the stabs are in tighter. But only do this if you need to. I didn't use the plate foam or case foam. I only used the pcb foam. And I put 1 layer of masking tape, and them the KBD fans provided one so that there were 2 layers total. And the switches are boba u4ts with an extremely light amount of krytox 205 g0... When I say extremely light, I mean that when I dipped the paintbrush in,I wiped the paint brush on the edge of the krytox container so that there was hardly any lube left on the brush before application. That's pretty much it. I'll say that putting in switches when there's no plate foam is hard because of how flexible the plate and pcb are. But... I love how flexible it is. So that's my personal preference Edit: I also put 60g springs in my switches, but it made like almost no difference at all. I just did it cause I had em lying around.
Actually I got the NCR 80 (made with ABS plastic) and pretty happy with it myself. Only drawback is that there is no option for builds that offer a soft typing experience.
Aesthetically it's pretty retro and pleasing.
sounds and looks great
Ty. This is my favorite keyboard now. And for just $119. Pretty damn happy with it.
Sounds really good! I'm just curious to know if switching the Boba U4T's original 62g spring to a 60g was even worth the change/difference?
Honestly it didn't really make much of a difference at all lol: It's a very very tiny difference. I did it because I had a bunch of unused cherry MX silent reds that I had lying around from a fnatic mini steak that I desoldered and replaced with another switch. I decided I might as well use the springs from there since I generally hate the mushy feeling of silent switches
@@amizan8653 ohh gotcha! I quite literally will have the same setup as you haha. Minus the 60g springs.
@@blueb_oy hell yeah dude, enjoy your keeb 🙂
Did you use the stab shims, if so how?
So I ended up not using the shims Because I ended up using another set of stabilizers. I ended up using the owlstabs by owlabs. There's nothing wrong with the cherry stabs, You can pretty much make sure that they sound good by clipping the legs, and doing the holy mod, and I guess using the stabilizer shims provided. I just had some really good luck with the owlstabs in the past with very little work, so I used them. Let me go find you a clip of someone putting the keyboard together with the shims
@@amizan8653 Oh alright, I bought tx stabs but it's 1.6m so I think I might need to use shims
Interesting... Not even KBD fans used the shims in their instructional video. I also looked up Alexotos steam where he builds and he also doesn't use them. I guess the shims are for if you're using another stabilizer that is built for thicker pcb. Anyways, here's a quick build video from kbdfans if you're interested:
ua-cam.com/video/i55MEU1zlUQ/v-deo.html
@@amizan8653 oh ok, also what's your favorite config for this board? Like what mods did you use etc?
@@mtsslippy1015 me personally, I used owlstabs lubed with krytox 205 g0 on the housing and permatex on the wires. But... TX stabs seem better in my opinion. I think you can use the same lubes and it would sound amazing. If you put in the TX stabs and screw them in and they seem to be a bit wobbly or they seem rattley, you can put the shims in between the pcb and bottom of the stab. This will artificially increase the thickness of the pcb so that the stabs are in tighter. But only do this if you need to.
I didn't use the plate foam or case foam. I only used the pcb foam. And I put 1 layer of masking tape, and them the KBD fans provided one so that there were 2 layers total. And the switches are boba u4ts with an extremely light amount of krytox 205 g0... When I say extremely light, I mean that when I dipped the paintbrush in,I wiped the paint brush on the edge of the krytox container so that there was hardly any lube left on the brush before application.
That's pretty much it. I'll say that putting in switches when there's no plate foam is hard because of how flexible the plate and pcb are. But... I love how flexible it is. So that's my personal preference
Edit: I also put 60g springs in my switches, but it made like almost no difference at all. I just did it cause I had em lying around.