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MaverickShotPro
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Dec 7, 2022
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It is Not Friendly For Modders!
I bought this refurbished keyboard because it was cheap and it was an entry-level keyboard to start modding. Boy was I wrong, I opted for the Halo True switches because I already had Gateron Yellow and I wanted something different. The Halo Trues right out of the box sound pingy and heavy AF. Every release of the keypress resulted in pinging coming from the unlubed springs. Combined with the hollowness of the case and the metal plate being soldered to the PCB, this keyboard sounds terrible. To be able to lube the springs you would need to de-solder the switches. YES this PCB is soldered and every switch is soldered to the board. It is not friendly for beginners to start modding and it was tedious even for me to desolder all of the switches just to lube them. Lubing the switches with 205G0 and the springs with Super Lube Synthetic oil helped a lot and eliminated pinging from the switches and smoothen out the keystrokes. I still did not like the Halo Trues, probably due to that 100g actuation endpoint. I ended up swapping to Akko CS Silvers linear switches hand-lubed. While I had the switches desoldered from the PCB, I bought some Mill-Max sockets which convert the PCB into a hot-swappable board. This made disassembly and reassembly a lot easier when trying to change mods around. However, the Mill-Max sockets raise the switches about 2mm above the normal seating which made the switches not mount to the metal plate. The switches would mount at an angle and cause interference with the stabs causing them to get stuck at the bottom and not come back up. I was able to get over this hurdle by putting the keycaps on and pressing extremely hard down to force the switches to mount to the metal plate. My mods for this keyboard include: PE foam for the case Tempest Tape mod for PCB - 1 layer PE foam in between plate and PCB - desoldered the plate from PCB and used the PE foam to avoid direct contact between the two Holee Mod lubed with 205g0 Band-aid mod Akko CS Silver switches lubed with 205g0 and Super Lube oil on springs Overall sound: In between Clack and Thock but loud! I would not recommend this keyboard to people who plan to mod it out of the box just as I had intended. I'd spend the money elsewhere such as the Akko 5075S kit, which is gasket mounted and uses a polycarbonate plate to sound quiet and thocky. However, for this price, you won't be able to find a hybrid keyboard that has an aluminum case and metal plate anywhere else. Had I known all of this, I would not have bought this keyboard in the first place. Although I am content with how the keyboard sounds after all of the modifications, I would've chosen something else. If you've read this review and are thinking of buying this keyboard as one of your first keyboards then I'd at least recommend you get the Gateron Yellow switches. The yellows are all around a solid choice amongst the modding community.
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