- I bought the Walmart keyboard maybe a few months ago.
I went and
I donated it
so this is not the exact same Walmart keyboard
that I unboxed last December.
This is actually a new Walmart keyboard
that I went to Walmart and bought.
But anyways, this thing's really cheap. It was like $35.
Giving Walmart a little bit more of my money.
I'm not sure if I should be supporting Walmart in that way,
but yeah, mistakes happen.
The packaging may look exactly the same,
as you can see, you know, game Onn RGB gaming keyboard.
When I first opened this, I was like,
wait- this isn't the same Walmart keyboard,
and I don't think it is.
I don't remember the last one having round edges like this.
I don't remember it having a big forehead or a big neck.
I don't remember any of that.
I do remember the braided cable.
That's a win.
And wrist rests- not a great one.
Just straight plastic.
And plug this in. Got some flashing.
Yeah, it's got some effects.
A quick typing test with this
but I know I'm gonna make it a lot better.
At least I- I think I will.
(keys clacking)
So, not horrible.
It sounds like a cheap, clicky keyboard.
Now I'm gonna start taking this thing apart.
Stabilizers need work.
I've never- never used the bird gun,
the desoldering gun live,
but I think it'll be okay.
I'm sure it'll be okay.
And think- hope things, things don't go wrong.
Two thousand years later.
This keyboard has so many screws.
Screws in my KBDfans little tray.
I'm gonna put this off to the side
and pray that it just stays there and we don't lose it.
What do we got?
Ooh, you know, what we got?
We got trouble in the form of three pin switches.
Wow. This is impossible to take off.
You know switch pullers are also really good for doing this.
Look at this.
Okay, see you've got super, no,
not even super glue- hot glue here.
Holding the wire in place.
Little jank.
Looks like at this point I just have to desolder switches.
We're doing the wa-
the linear switches.
New prototypes in group I right now,
from Keebhut.
I've got 30 of them.
So I'm just gonna put these on the alphas.
And then I've got a bunch of Gateron yellows for the rest.
And then I've got some prototype key caps
from randomfrankp
for his new topographic.
Actually really excited to use those.
I do have to clip legs.
Not my favorite thing to do.
In the meantime, let's warm up the bird gun.
Here's a bird gun.
I've used this for so many things.
You turn it on and you wait until this thing does something.
You want it to be hot enough,
and you also wanna get a little bit of solder on the tip.
I don't know, that's just what the manual says.
Somethings burning.
When you smell something burning, you should be concerned.
Everything's okay.
I feel like what I do in here,
in this room is like, sort of dangerous.
There- I feel like there's too many mistakes
that could happen.
Some solder around the tip.
Things are plenty hot.
(mechanic whirring)
Some of them are okay, and some of them are not.
It's definitely a bad solder.
I have to do this twice.
(mechanic whirring)
And ta-da, it comes right out!
A bit dirty, but it's not- it's not bad.
Raised surface. Are you kidding me?
This is the most unfortunate thing ever.
Hopefully won't cause an issue.
It- it might. It might. Let me look.
Oh gosh, this isn't gonna work, is it?
Nope.
It's got a raised SMD spot.
I could use, I think the Gateron yellows will still work.
So yellow switches have the slot,
whereas the new,
blue bubble gums,
they do not.
That means I cannot test them out on Walmart stabilizers.
I don't think I will be using them again.
The hardest part is probably taking it apart
and not really putting it back together.
(mechanic whirring)
I never realized how big-
(mechanic whirring)
full-size keyboards are.
(mechanic whirring)
Things sound really fun until you've done it.
Then it's like, oh gosh, what am I doing?
I don't think I'm ever gonna upgrade
a normal full-size keyboard ever again.
I thought it wouldn't be that bad.
I was wrong.
Ah!
Not working.
This is painful.
Oh!
That is a mess.
That's one.
Oh gosh.
I'm not gonna lie.
I regret my entire life.
I'm gonna get them off.
I'm gonna take them out.
Probably just off stream, 'cause this is really depressing.
I did use the desoldering gun,
and the soldering iron,
and the desoldering gun again,
and the deterring iron
and the wick, and the flux.
And it's- just not, just not happening.
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Two weeks ago, I started upgrading my Walmart keyboard
and it was an utter disaster!
But I took my keyboard into the garage.
Really, you know, flexed all my muscles,
and pulled out all the switches.
Thank goodness, I was able to do it.
I did this in my spare time.
Got the top plate, which is now a turquoise blue color,
I think it's gonna match perfectly
with the key caps that I plan on using for it,
and yes, it's full size.
The PCB is disgusting.
There were some switches
that were particularly really freaking hard
to take out.
New stabilizers that I plan on using with this
instead of the ones that came in the box,
and these were sent to me by Asceny.
And I lubed switches in my spare time as well,
because lubing streams are particularly
boring in my opinion.
So the first step includes stabilizers.
I'm going with the fancy stuff.
The Krytox 205g0, of course.
Maybe some band aids, if we need it.
I'm not- I'm not holy modding here.
Not going that crazy.
You need a knife.
This is part two in the
I purchased things that I'm not proud of,
and this is another one of those things.
Don't remember what it's called, but it looks cool.
So it cuts things, got a nice pouch.
You know, you open up and like, ooh!
I'm just gonna cut things.
A karambit, that's what it's called, yeah.
We have four little ones and
a 7u and a 6.25u.
This is a lot of housings, and you 14 housings.
So I will lube them all.
It will be wonderful.
Part of me doesn't like clear housings
because they're so hard to see.
Okay. They've been lubed.
Now to put housings in them.
Some of this action.
Oh my gosh, what I'd do?
Why is this so bad?
Just have to use force.
The problem with painting your plates lies here,
when you add more thickness to your plate,
this is what happens.
Perfect. Weird plate?
You know, I got really nervous when you said that.
As I was looking at my plate, like, is it upside down?
Did I put all these stabilizers in upside down?
That would really not be good.
Yeah. It's not upside down.
'Cause the backside, I did not spray paint all the way.
Woo.
That was tough.
Now PCB time. Now there our stabilizers are done.
But first, I'm gonna test the stabilizers.
I'm testing my stabilizers.
You know, making sure they work.
There were seven stabilizers.
This is crazy.
All the stabilizers worked.
I didn't mess it up.
Switches time.
So here's the PCB. I took everything out.
There's some methods and they do have the SMD LEDs.
So I made sure my switches would fit.
These are a mix of Akko Vintage Whites
and Akko Jelly Whites,
because I didn't have enough Vintage Whites,
because it's a full size keyboard.
This plate has an interesting way of mounting to this PCB.
It has these little levers here
that you just use pliers and you'll twist and then boom,
your PCBs just locked in.
Easy.
All these switches already have just three pins.
They have the hole for the SMD.
Therefore we don't have anything to worry about.
No clipping.
You just have to smoosh them in, which-
oh, and they're north facing.
Just gotta smoosh 'em in.
I have 20, or I should have 20 Jelly Whites.
I think I will put them on here and the numb pad
or here,
so that we don't like, get weird sound differences.
I'm really glad these switches just go in.
What foam will you be using?
I wasn't planning on using foam,
but I guess I will use
shelf liner.
I gotta make sure all the legs are put in
and then I can begin soldering.
Okay. I'm turning the fan on.
So I try to stay farther on my solder.
Cool. First row is done.
Get all these fumes.
I hope I didn't ruin the soldering pads
when I tried taking the switches off earlier.
Well this one, this one's been through rough times.
I don't know if this switch will work.
Oh, it's done.
You know, it's not pretty, but it's something.
Okay. That's not too bad.
No foam?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Let's get some shelf liner in there.
I've got shelf liner right here.
It'd be an easy cut.
It's just regular
shelf liner.
I found it the kitchen.
In it goes, once again,
and now I can close it.
Or at least I hope I can close it.
I think it's cool.
Okay. Screws.
After the screws, I can finally put on the key caps.
(mechanic screeching)
They truly save time.
I'm using a special key cap set that's not made by myself,
but made by another creator.
I will be using the Ctrl-t
Deep Sea key cap set.
Which is sold on Ctrl-t Keys right now.
It is on pre-order.
They're very pretty.
Yes, they are.
They're PBT dye-sub. They're flat.
They're nice and smooth.
There we go.
Oh, full size stuff. It's hard.
They're so many keys to this set.
Sound test. We all wanna hear it.
(keys clacking)
And it sounds interesting.
It really varies from row to row.
It's got a unique sound.
I did not expect it to sound like this, and I'm- yeah,
I'm not sure how I feel about it a hundred percent.
It could be plugged in.
It's got RGB, but because of these key caps,
RGBs not really gonna show very well.
Interesting.
That's all I can say.
So switches we used today were
Akko CS Vintage Whites and Jelly Whites.
I spray painted the top plate.
I soldered in all the switches.
We've used Asceny mounted stabilizers
and the Ctrl-t Keys X randomfrankp
Deep Sea
Topo key caps.
Gotta say, it looks pretty good.
It's gonna be a stick thumbnail.
All I can say is,
I am never ever
touching a Walmart keyboard
or a full size keyboard ever again.
It was extremely hard, hard to do.
That's fun. This looked amazing.
It sounds questionable,
but sounds better than what it was
by like 10 million percent.
I hope you all have a really good day and good bye.