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wendy_murphy16•15h ago

Walked into a library in Dayton and saw a librarian typing on a keyboard she built herself

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harper19•1d ago

Finally understood why my spacebar rattled after 8 months of building

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pat954•1d ago

Lubed my stabilizers with a $4 tube of dielectric grease and the rattle vanished

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luna_jackson28•2d ago

Gasket mount vs top mount, took 4 builds to finally pick one

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mia_anderson•4d ago

Warning: don't trust those foam switch pads from the cheap kits

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lunah86•7d ago

Tuning stabilizers used to take an hour, now it's a 15 minute job

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lilyfisher•8d ago

Rant: the guy who told me my frankenswitch idea was stupid

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wendy_murphy16•10d ago

Plate material swap beat my fancy stabilizer tweaks

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spencer_bell•12d ago

Chasing a ghost key for 6 hours, turned out to be a bent pin

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betty144•12d ago

Turns out I had my stabs flipped for 3 months and nobody told me

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dylan265•12d ago

Lubed my switches wrong for 2 years, a $7 brush changed it

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lisa_brown•12d ago

Hot swap sockets sounded like a gimmick, now I'm a believer after 3 board swaps

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ben138•17d ago

Checked out that meetup in Austin and nobody lubed their stabilizers

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lisa_brown•20d ago

My plate mount experiment ended in a 2am desolder session

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leo603•20d ago

Hot-swap sockets ruined my soldering habit, and I'm glad

Custom Keyboard Builds

c/custom-keyboard-builds

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