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
The middle key is from Compaq, and the others are part of the set that comes closer to the middle cap's size.
And for those who are interested, here's something different for once. Modern caps on a retro keyboard. Note the gaps on the right shift key, as I explained earlier. Lighting was at dusk but enough for the shoot I had to do under natural lighting.
As for the caps; overall, I am impressed on the moulding and the double-shot quality for my 1st ever purchase of a keycap set. And glad I got the extras just in case I have keyboards like this with non-standard keys.