WHAT IS GOOD EVERYONE SHOBS HERE?
Hmm mmm, cAN yoU build my KEyBoARDD?, aight shut up here we go, and yes his username his
Paperacrobat2, freakin ugghhhh.
You know the drill, I’m building another custom mechanical keyboard for my friend.
This is what they wanted,
-a 65% board with front lighting with a budget of around $120
with tactile or linear switches, it dont matter,
and the color scheme can honestly be anything, go ham with it
So instead with going with the barebones kit route this time, we're gonna try something
new.
We're gonna take a full assembled keyboard and mod it and tweak some things.
The board we're gonna go with is the Nimbleback or the NB681 which comes with a manuel, a
standard USB-C cable, a 2in1 switch and keycap puller, and lastly 4 extra red switches, the
same switches I chose for the board.
We also got two packs of 45 AKKO ocean blue switches and one thing ill note is that i
really like the packaging, it super miminmal and sleek but Akko did you really need to
pack all the switches individually like this, feel like this is a waste of material and
space but i still appreciate it never the less.
Anyways, remember how i said my friend didnt care if he wanted linear or tactile.
Now with the red switches and the ocean blue, he can swap them out whenever he wants and
do whatever..
Ughh you're so smart Paper, so big brain and so good look—*cut off in editing* The akko
blue switches do have Kailh style housings so make sure you have that type of switch
opener.
And lastly we have the keycaps, these are the cherry profile light blue and pink Sushi
Keycaps off of amazon.
Im pretty sure these are clones, there's too many clones out there nowadays.
Now before we assemble the board, I wanna talk about the board, the fully assembled
board comes with the choice of red, brown or blue switches, hitting all the different
types of catergories of switches, pretty standard things.
Although the board supports 5 pin hotswap, the switches the come with the board are 3
pin and they come unlubed.
Along with that, the board is tray mounted with six screws and has another six screws
combining the plate and PCB together.
The board does come with per key lighting RGB with its north facing leds and its amplified
with the ABS shine through keycaps.
I also want to note that they also have their own application to configure the RGB.
The board also has two flip down feet for an elevated typing experience that is suppose
to be anti slip but that was cap.
The feet suck.
Now we get to some of the cooler points about this board.
Along the back the board where you plug in your USB-C, you will notice two USB 2.0 ports
to the left and right.
I don't know how you would use it but i find it most useful to plug in your wireless mouse
into one of the ports to free up usb ports on your computer.
Lastly, this next feature might be dumb but its what caught my attention of this board
(well along with the other features as well).
So if you gently left up the sides of the board, the whole top frame comes off and leaves
your keyboard with a floating switch design.
Pretty cool huh. nah that was lame, that's the reason why you like the board.
shut up man.
Lets just mod the board already.
*music switches*
Beginning with stabs, they come messily pre-lubed and they're quite wobbly, Lets fix that, remove
the stabs, dissameble them, wash off the lube, dry them.
Take the stems and clip them and then holee mod them.
Next lube the housing, stems with lotion.. i mean Krytox and dip the wires in Dielectric
Grease.
Assemble them.
Moving to the switches, i actually lubed the switches off camera but you already know how
i lube my tactile switches with tribox 3203 and bag lube the springs with GPL 105 Oil.
Pretty easy.
First thing we're doing is getting rid of the ugly big branding on the front, take some
acetone and start scrub-a-dub dubbing.
next we're removing those garbago ABS keycaps and removing the red switches.
Then we're gonna remove the top frame and get those 6 screws out and carefully remove
the ribbon cable that connects to the daughterboard.
Next remove another six screws to seperate the PCB from the plate
We're gonna do the PE foam mod, so cut some PE foam to the size of the PCB, use some switches
to hold it in place, trim off extra, poke holes for the screws and use an exacto knife
to cut holes for the stabs,
Next place the Plate back on and put some switches to hold the foam in place again.
then screw in the 6 bottom screws, place the switches leaving the ones with stabs clear,
than take your original bandaid, hopefully you didnt throw it away, and bandaid mod it.
then finally place your stabs inside
once you're done get some keycaps and test the stabs, now that they are good, we gonna
do another mod, the tape mod, take some masking tape or whatever tape you're gonna use and
tape the bottom, i did two layers but you can do however many you want, then poke some
holes for the screws and make sure the cut out the area for where the daughter board
connects to,
ok conect the ribbon cable, and screw in the six screws, place your keycaps and now your
done.
congrats and now heres a typing test
Bro I'm gonna bu— Overall the keyboard turned out super nice and hella crispy.
Its definitely on the deeper sounding side with a hint of that marbley sound.
For about $120, I say this is keyboard is a dub in my books.
I will say that this copy of the keyboard did come with one stripped screw but its all
good I guess.
Speaking of the board, I think one thing Ill change with it its maybe the feet, they kinda
suck ngl but yeah.
Idk this board really caught my attention for being about $65 on amazon since you can
switch between a normal design to a switch floating design.
Dude I'm just a sucker for little gimmicks like this.
And technically you can make this board even hella cheaper if you just use the switches
and keycaps that it already comes with, but definitely need to fix those disgusting stabs
tho and maybe lube the switches, up to you.
All the other mods I did were pretty inexpensive and really help change the board.
And yeah thats it, thank you so much for watching.
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