I don’t have the patience or will to open up hundreds of switches and lube their dang sliders. That’s crazy.
The most I’ve ever done is add silencing rings to my Topre boards, and even then it was a royal pain in the arse and something I sorta resent having had to do at all. But I can’t stand bottom-out/upstroke noise, so it had to be done.
That’s why I’m only doing mine in smaller more manageable batches at a time 
It really does make a significant difference in sound quality and overall smoothness.
One big reason I like Topre switches so much is that they are smooth (due to factory lubrication) and quiet (except–usually–for upstroke noise) out of the box. The only mods they need (IMO) are silencing rings (to kill the upstroke noise) and lubed stabilizers.
If I’m going to type on MX-style switches, then I prefer the silenced variants when possible. The good ones don’t have scratchy sliders, so the only things I ever need to lube are stabilizers.
I honestly couldn’t tell if my switches were scratchy or not. I just use them as they come.
I couldn’t tell either until I tried Cherry MX silent red switches in place of normal reds. With the cacophony of bottom-out and upstroke noise gone, all that remained was an unsettling shuff shuff shuff sound when I typed. That was the sound slider friction, and with lubed sliders, you don’t really hear that.
I’d like to try some of those. For those who don’t know: the stems have these little rubber pads that dampen the otherwise plastic-on-plastic bottom-out/ upstroke.
haha, I figured yoyo folks would also be into keyboards.
Bought a magicforce 68 with cherry browns a few months ago to dip my toe in the mech keyboard pool. I really love it! Can’t ever go back to a rubber dome now. Also in the middle of building up my first real PC rig.
Maybe just a little… Is that a screen?
Whyyyyy though?
It’s used mainly in industrial and commercial settings where that one keyboard controls and monitors multiple remote workstations. Those displays can be programmed to display whatever information is needed, like the operational status of various stations/machines, or security camera images, or whatever.
I got myself a Keychron K6 recently and put Kailh box navy switches in them. I was using Cherry blues before that. The navies are so good that I could never go back to Cherry blues.
Did you go with the hotswap version?
Sure did.
An unecessarily expensive, moddable, pointless, but fun, finger-toy. Keyboards are essentially yoyos.
Did you print and laser-engrave that? Looks pretty good.
What I did what colour the top with permanent marker and then laser engraved it. I repeated this process 5 times. After that, I cleaned the keycap using alcohol.
I got myself a Redragon K556 with Outemu Brown Switches. A very nice Keyboard for the Price Point, the only anoying thing is a metallic twang from the aluminium faceplate when typing hard/fast. Tried many things to silence it but nothing worked out so far.
Not too familiar with that board, but most dudes who build their own keebs will put some foam or shelf liner in the case to help dampen sounds like that. Maybe that’s something you could try.
