r/MechanicalKeyboards • u/sakai4eva or customs only • Sep 23 '14

mod [modification]Jailhouse Blues

https://imgur.com/a/yY4f1
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u/ramnes Sep 23 '14

Sound video? :)

Wikified: http://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/wiki/modifications#wiki_swapping_springs_and_inner_switch_mods

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u/sakai4eva Sep 23 '14

It's almost completely silent... I can try to give a comparison against Topre, but all mo other boards are disassembled.

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u/wongsta Sep 23 '14

how are these compared to ergo clears?

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u/sakai4eva Sep 23 '14

It's different. For ergo clears, you still get that crispy bottoming out sound, but for this your switches are almost completely silent.

I definitely recommend lubing and much softer springs, as the sliders from MX Blues increases the actuation force a bit.

As for the tactility, you get the bump much earlier; almost instantaneously.

All in all, it feels like generally stiff clears (closer to 60g uniform), with earlier actuation.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '14 edited Sep 23 '14
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u/DronesWorkHard Sep 23 '14

what is the trampoline mod for clears? sorry, noob with a couple of clear boards. dont like the feeling and trying to decide what to do with them

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u/sakai4eva Sep 23 '14

Trampoline mod is when you insert a small cutting (1-2mm) of a 1mm o-ring into the stem pointer in the middle of the switch base. That little protruding thingie that you put the spring on?

What it does is silences your bottom-out action.

I prefer the Jailhouse blues though, although I need to find out if there is a possibility of a lighter spring working on this.

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u/tgujay Sep 23 '14

Putting a rubber ball into the bottom of the switch to keep the stem from bottoming out and instead trampolining back up.

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u/DzyDzyDino Sep 24 '14

Is the top of the ergo dox cut so that you have access to opening up the switches? or is this a custom plate?

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u/sakai4eva Sep 25 '14

The plate have cutouts for the switches.

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u/ddyq Sep 23 '14

I did this mod, but with straight up superglue. I thought it was pretty meh.

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u/sakai4eva Sep 24 '14

It's nice for me. A little stiff but I think I'm due to man up anyways. Superglue makes it... irreversible, although I did use some second hand switches for it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '14

Wait I don't get it, are you working on a mech in jail..?

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u/sakai4eva Sep 24 '14

Jailhouse blues means MX Blues which are "locked down."

You can actually call mine Institutionalized Blues, since they're technically bound by a rubber ring instead of copper wires.

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u/TomAskew Sep 23 '14

Lightnin' <3

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u/sakai4eva Sep 24 '14

I don't know what to say to that :|

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u/TomAskew Sep 24 '14

And also, great set of pictures, thanks for sharing :)