just for a note, if you using hot glue mod, you can remove it by using isopropyl alcohol (ipa 99%).. try it.. your hand sanitizer that contain alcohol also can do, but it will be such a waste..
i will make it clear: there are three things acoustic-wise presented in keyboards: echo of all flavours (resonance), rattle (also all kinds of it) and scratching. first one is about adding weight and filling empty space with dense material- all these goals are perfectly achieved by Kilmat. rattle is just a loose fit of mechanical parts- make it tighter. scratching is a lack of lube. thats it. no magic behind.
To remove hot glue, you can use Isopropyl alcohol. Just a few drops will help it release it from the plastic. Just be wary that Isopropyl alcohol can also risk damaging the colouring of the plastics in your keys and also any adhesives that were there from factory.
Deskmats are usually in the $18-$25 range, and you can get one under 10! If you're just broke enough to get a mecha keeb, you're probably just broke enough to get a deskmat too! It's basically furniture for your furniture too
I think using the Sponge Rubber Foam Tape from Home Depot as the keyboard’s feet may produce wonderful results,they are also very sponge which is good for fitting it into tight spaces for acoustic control yet it’s very economical, I hope you can do a test it in the future 😊, love your wonderful channel ❤
I think I'll do the tape mod, the o ring mod and the silicone mod. I also have to do the stab mod and lube the red switches. Those are the ones I liked so far, the ones you did in this video were interesting to watch, but I am old and didn't hear much of a difference. I want my RK TKL to be very quiet and smooth feeling ( so the o ring mod might be to bouncy, it might have to go away). Great video and thanks for the testing and information, keep up the great work 🙂
I did try to fill up the bottom of my keyboard with liquid latex/mold rubber (was made for putting under socks for to make it anti slippery. Putting on thin layers and let it dry and fill more on. After 2 weeks it was all filled up. It got more weight and sounds better.
Id love to see some of these mods done! - Molding putty spacebar fill - Silicone pour case fill - Super Sculpey clay case fill - Caulk case fill then flattened - Brass plate as a weight, cut to size with a hacksaw - MLV - Holee mod with shrink wrap - Carpet padding (recycled denim, etc)
Dang. Had my fingers crossed for the sand. 😂 I've been holding onto nearly 5 lbs of it for a few years now and idk what to do with it. Too cool to toss and too messy to ever take it out the bag without a reason. 😅
One mod that I want you guys to try out (that I do myself) is to put on rubber orings. Not what you think: you use the orings in between the gaps on the screws of any two piece case keyboard, like on a Q1. Personally I find this to be a bit better than the tape mod, not necessarily easier though as it can take time to fidget the screws into place and stretching the orings onto it without losing the orings since they tend to fling if you don't hold onto them properly. On my Q8 it has changed the sound slightly, though I can't explain properly why that is, but there is now a tiny air gap that lets some of the sound escape, and pairing that with something like a sound dampening plate (like kilmat) honestly made the sound side of things more refreshing. It isn't too loud, but at the same time it has a different sound signature that I really love. On top of this I use pe foam pads, a PC plate and red jacket V2 switches. It is VERY satisfying to listen to, type and game on. edit: there seems to be confusion about what I have tried to say. This is supposed to replace the force break mod.
I prefer to just wrap the pcb in masking tape instead of press n seal. It's safer, and it also could help a lot depending on the board. I used it on one of my keyboard and sounded more poppy.
Since i started watching a lot of videos on modding keyboards. I observed that Keyboard enthusiasts be putting anything & everything inside a keyboard to make it sound better 💀💀.
You could get hot glue out easily. Put the thing you glued in cold wated for about 1 hour, and it would slide of pretty easy. Considering you didn’t melt the plastic
Sticking the kind of dampening you would use in car doors etc for sound dampening also works good to dampen the sound of the chassi. It will make it sound more solid. But it can be a pain to remove if needed. I think its some kind of butyl rubber.
I'm amazed you found something at Michel's for only 3$ I live in Florida so prices can be excessive sometimes. Yet still I'm surprised. The other day I went to Walgreen's, they have caramel candys for 38 cents each I almost started crying. I probably looked insane, a full grown man hysterical praying, holding up the check out line, I shouted "Thirty eight cents WOOOO" Just completely taken back to have found a product worth less than a dollar.
The electronic manufacturers taking all the precautions to avoid electrostatic damage following strict standards during the manufacturing… The modders:
4:42 i know of keyboards that cant be powered by phones, but this is the first time i seen a keyboard that can't be powered by a laptop. How much power does it need jesus.
Playing with the play doh brought me back to when we would have clay in school but it was different colors and you would take a little piece of each and roll it into a multi colored ball lol
I used a t-shirt for my old ass logitech g series gaming keyboard as a desk mat to dampen the sound some, it worked sort of. Though, there's no real fixing blue switches x'DDD
I was drinking diet coke while watching and I somehow smelled play-doh while she was doing the play-doh mod. now I'm going around my room trying to find where the smell came from.
Unbelievably speaking, Vicks VapoRub works as lube too. Believe it or not, that oily, minty lube wannabe which is actually a throat and cold medicine thing, works. My cousin tried it, and it works, but I think it won't probably last a year or something.
try sound dampening foam for studios or for offices (like those spike thingies that you put on the wall to reduce reverb) cement clay (but i think its just the same as with playdoh silicon keycaps (and how to make them)
I just filled my space bar with double sided foam type tape and instant improvement.. I have a redragon keyborad so not the best out there but this mod worked for me like a charm with the space bar only.
Hey there! I like gaming and would like a keyboard that is fit for gaming, with a nice sound, at around the 120$ price point. What do you recommend? Anyways, amazing video! Your videos always help!
5:00 static electricity is really not that big of an issue at all for any electrical components, it is a pretty popular myth and to do any damage you would need a ridiculously large discharge
yup, watched the electric man and linus do a video about this. think they mentioned something about hitting a VERY specific spot too before it actually bricks itself. its always a good idea to be properly protected before handling any pcb at least, and if not properly protected, at least not standing on a carpet and moving around a lot: more so you dont zap yourself and the components continuously xd though most components *should* be fine anyways as long as it isnt soaked up in moisture
I am sitting here, I filled up the empty space with foam, now my screws are too short and I am struggeling! And it's not an option not to screw it back together, that would be a sandwich, but not a keyboard. So I like you guys, I like your content, but those "let's put mustard in my keyboard" options are weird to me. I hope my Newman GM610 can be reasembled at this point, it's way too much foam i guess. I was really frustrated. But I did it. No Thocc though, still clacky af. I will lube all the switches now, idc. It's fun, I love modding mz keyboard, even if it's frustrating too. It's nice.
man what kind of crazy hot glue are you using? I always use a hot glue gun when modding or wiring my comp because creates a temp hold I can just peel off. maybe the budget glue sticks I have may even function better because they're more squishy and less adhesive?
