Keyboard Tips & Tricks - Volume 1
CTRL + F to quickly skip to each tip/trick below: Tip #1 - Cheap Dust Cover (Shower Caps) Tip #2 - Upgrade Your Wire Keycap Puller to Plastic Tip #3 - Test Your PCB/QC Your Board Before Building Soldering-Specific: Tip #4 - Take Your Time. Set Yourself up for Soldering Success Tip #5 - Using the Right Size Soldering Tip Tip #6 - Soldering Loose Switches/Plateless Builds - Rubber Bands Tip #7 - Fixing Crooked Switches After Soldering Extra Tip - Test Your PCB After Soldering… BEFORE You Put Away Your Soldering Equipment Intro & Disclaimer A recent mistake. Mixed three sets of beige PBT keycap sets and spent a good while having to separate everything... “I wish I had known about this sooner…” I can’t tell you the amount of times that I’ve said those words out loud, or thought about them when it comes to the keyboard hobby. Whether it’s what someone in the community has told me, or something I found out myself, even things that may seem so simple as using...
Mar 11, 2025
Red switches are in, so red-switch kits will be shipping out before the weekend. We shipped some of the red switches over to our assembly factory as well, and they'll finish those kits, and should have them back to us either late next week, or early the following week.
However I'd like to know about the other orders too. Namely the fully assembled kits. Even a simple "No news on X; still waiting for Y" in the promised weekly update would have been nice.
According to your earlier post (https://www.massdrop.com/buy/ergodox-4/talk#!23692) the fully assembled keyboards (except the ones missing switches, of course) were a week away from shipping. I assume they still haven't shipped anywhere because we got no update but waiting without information after given ETA has already passed days ago is no fun at all.