[Noisebridge-discuss] [sudo-discuss] mx brown switches in salvage

[Jake]

that's hilarious, i guess it would be perfect for what Trent wants to do.

make sure you get plenty of ventilation, i should have mentioned.

This can't be done in sudoroom without running a fan to the ventilation 
duct near the laser cutter.  Perhaps the clear acrylic flow-hood could be 
connected to a ventilation blower to the exhaust duct.

-jake

On Thu, 22 Sep 2016, robb wrote:

> i just found a 10.5" X 20" electric hotplate yesterday.
> it's on the projects shelves past the robot arm w/a note about component
> removal use on it.
>
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Trent Robbins <robbintt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Jake! I was planning on doing it by hand, but it would be neat to
>> try the mechanical one at sudo room.
>>
>> Trent
>>
>> On Thursday, September 22, 2016, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:
>>
>>> a hotplate covered with clean sand heated up to 400 degrees (celsius)
>>> will be a surface on which you can place a circuitboard covered with such
>>> switches, and then you can pluck them out of the board as their solder
>>> melts.  This is how old boards had their parts salvaged from them back when
>>> people still did that.
>>>
>>> if you don't have the right hotplate and you want to use a skillet
>>> instead, you'll likely have to cut the circuitboard in half or thirds so
>>> that it will be small enough to fit in the skillet of sand.  no big deal.
>>>
>>> you could also remove them one at a time, using a desoldering tool.
>>> There's a motorized one at sudoroom, which is basically a gun-shaped
>>> soldering iron with a hollow tip and a foot-pedal activated vacuum pump.
>>> You could use that to pull the solder out of the hole for one of the two
>>> pins of each key, and then use a regular soldering iron to heat up the
>>> second one while pulling the key out with the other hand.
>>>
>>> good luck,
>>> -jake
>>>
>>> On Tue, 20 Sep 2016, Trent Robbins wrote:
>>>
>>> Does anyone know a good way to salvage from 101-105 mx brown keyboard
>>>> switches?
>>>>
>>>> I'm planning on building my own keyboard this fall or winter and have
>>>> plenty of time to source scrap.
>>>>
>>>> http://cubiq.org/build-your-very-own-pc-keyboard
>>>>
>>>> Build process is as complex as you'd expect.
>>>>
>>>> Teensy firmware: https://github.com/tmk/tmk_keyboard
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Trent
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>> --
>> (Sent from cellphone)
>>
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