Alright friends, you know I really like silent keyboards.
And the last few silent keyboards I made were alright, wasn’t perfect, silent but not
perfectly silent, and it’s because I didn’t mod the stabilizers fully enough as it was
very evident in the spacebar at least.
So this time, I fixed that by doing both the Holee Mod and the Band Aid Mod.
In this video, the primary discussion is going to be the Gateron Silent Black Ink V2 switches
used in the keyboard, so let’s talk about that along with the build and sound tests.
The Gateron Ink V2s are more scratchy and inconsistent in terms of the sound and feel
compared to their earlier V1 counterparts.
Reason being is because V1s had a loose leaf that was rectified in the new V2 mold, but
then caused issues with the aforementioned inconsistency.
Furthermore, some people have reported the stock springs to ping in some batches, I personally
have not experienced any in my order, and most of the scratchiness and inconsistencies
were solved by simply lubing it with Krytox 205g0 and filming.
I bag lubed the stock springs with Krytox 105 and also ring lubed the top and bottoms
with Krytox 205g0 so there’s no signs of ping here.
I have both the Black Ink V2s and the Silent Black Ink V2s lubed and filmed.
Both switches should be the same with its components except the silent version has dampeners
on the sides of the stem.
When they are both in stock form, I think the scratchiness was more noticeable on the
silent switches because the fact that everything else was muted and all you could hear were
the flaws whereas the scratchiness of the non-silent switches was kind of mixed into
the natural sound of the switch.
Okay let’s jump into the actual sound and typing test of the Silent Black Ink V2.
In summary, during a typing test, to my ears, I think pretty much all the scratchiness is
fixed by lube and film as mentioned before, and any sound that came of off it was just
the contact or friction of my fingertips hitting or rubbing against the surface of the keycaps.
The scratchiness when lubed is only barely noticeable if you hold the switch straight
up to your ear, but during a regular typing session where your keyboard is a normal distance
away from you, you won’t notice it.
Now the thing with Gateron Ink V2s is that they will get smoother and better over time
with use as you break them in more.
Band Aid Mod and Holee Mod also helped a ton with the stabilizers and I will be doing both
of these mods for pretty much every build moving forward.
Okay, so that’s all I have for this video, please give it a thumbs and subs if you want
to see more keyboard content and it does help the YouTube algorithm, let me know if there’s
anything else I can do to improve the build here down in the comments, thank you so much
for watching, and I’ll see you in the next one.