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[–]Snow 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

Hahaaa.

I am serious, if you don't know how to read Chinese and buy it from there, the price won't be good, I saw people buy mechanical keyboards from China all met the same problem: they deliberately sell them far expensiver outside China.

They suck.

The blues feel satisfying to me, and the sound doesn't drive me crazy, but I was for sure worried about being rude at work with very loud switches.

Then get the blue. Most people felt satisfy for linear switches at the end.

That's a great idea. I need to use those swappable plugs on one of my next kbs. I've been digging this one, it fits together perfect: https://keeb.io/collections/keyboard-pcbs/products/quefrency-60-65-split-staggered-keyboard?variant=16032981385310

Remember get swappable sockets look like this one.

https://img.alicdn.com/imgextra/i1/2761166631/TB2VkPzjFcJL1JjSZFOXXcWlXXa_!!2761166631.jpg

But not this one:

https://img.alicdn.com/imgextra/i4/2761166631/TB2VLqtBipnpuFjSZFIXXXh2VXa_!!2761166631.jpg

The circle sockets is for outemu switches only.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Thank you so much for your tips man. I've never seen this new kind of hot swappable socket before. I'm going to build a board with them, and then I'm going to experiment with bottoming out linear switches! I certainly type terribly and bottom out always, so it might be a great fit. You've lifted my keyboard funk.

I am serious, if you don't know how to read Chinese and buy it from there, the price won't be good, I saw people buy mechanical keyboards from China all met the same problem: they deliberately sell them far expensiver outside China.

I believe you, I just don't see people coming out and admitting it very often. And us Americans are conditioned to believe that only white people are racist. Or we're just culturally dumb.

I have seen tutorials for buying stuff in Chinese... I'll think about that. I'll probably just stick to AliExpress though.

[–]Snow 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

You can buy this with the correct sockets, so you don't need to build it yourself, this is the cheapest one with the correct swappable socket:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32952663095.html

Buy they selling this china with this price: https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a312a.7700824.w4002-21764443711.41.10316a1bXv5iMb&id=582404204488

It's the same store....

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Holy shit, $60 vs. $3.40, that's nuts. I think you just blew my mind.

I'm in the market for a 60% or ideally split 60% though. That is a good idea just to buy one and not solder in the swappable sockets. I do alright with the soldering though, I've made 4 or 5 boards so far.

[–]Snow 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

It's $60USD VS $258CNY (36 USD).

Hard to find 60% keyboards...then you should DIY it.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Oh, oops, thanks for the correction. Yeah still a massive price difference.

This one seems about right: https://www.1upkeyboards.com/shop/controllers/1up-rgb-pcb-hse/

[–]Snow 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Oh nice. Yeah it turns out I can't add these sockets to any board, so I will certainly get one of these boards.

I also tried some Kaihl speed switches... They seem pretty awesome with their shorter travel. I'm gonna get some Hako to try too.

[–]Snow 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I liked kailh sliver on the ctrl button!😃 Easy to push.⌨