The difference between masking tape and painters tape is painters tape can easily come off but masking tape sticks a lot and is harder to remove if I I so this I might use painters tape because if I don’t like it can be removed easily
fun fact: im just a kid 12 years old and i did the foam and tape mod. the foam came from the box my keyboard box and the masking tape i had some laying in my house edit: the keyboard was inconsistent💀
for anyone who still wants to do this but cant find pe foam, tissues work great. Just make sure you get clean tissues with no moisture (i would wash hands, sanitise and dry) and then just lay the tissues in as flat as possible, as many layers as you would like just so you can fit the PCB back in, and it works just the same.
I'd use a thicker piece of foam than that in the video, usually the foam that comes from packaging tomatoes, you can get some from your grocery store or restaurant when they're throwing it out; one layer for the face and 3 for the back (one will be taped down to the base of the case with double side tape); then I'll tape the same foam inside the space bar, shift, and enter keys; now the keyboard makes a nice quiet thocking noise .... but it's nothing compare to the Logitech k70 (the first batch that came out, not the later batches that came out years later) that was near silent, it only got squeeky after 13 years of use, and the plastic became to brittle to risk taking the keys off and lubing the sisscor switches. .
So, i've got the Yunzii KC68 Pro keyboard (which is a rebrand of some other brand i don't really remember). Anyways, it has a pretty thick foam thing pre-installed between the PCB and the plate... so i'm unsure if this mod is needed. I really wanna get the sound you get when doing these mods but again, my keyboard already has some kind of foam pre-installed and i have no idea what that foam even is for.
The tape my be conducting electricity somewhere or if you take the tape off and it still don’t come back on then you probably got static in it and killed the leds so try using electrical grade tape and if that don’t work than you fucked up
I feel like in such tape mod videos people should be recommending the right type of tape. If you buy the wrong type of masking tape you will absolutely destroy/fry your board. You need one that's not conductive. And unfortunately there is very, very little information about which ones are and aren't conductive. I want to do the tape mod on all my boards. But I'm not sure what tape to use. And even hipyo uses tape that's slightly conductive and might ruin your board. Something that he keeps telling people while he keeps using the same tape.
I've recently become addicted to collecting keyboards and I've found, as a life long touch typist, I only like blue switches and you people that think stuffing foam into your keyboards to "hear" a difference are either nuts or pulling off the longest prank ever.
