Extras will be available after I finish shipping GB units
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Sweet, can’t wait to get my sheet so I can rebuild my Nightfox! I am really liking the layout of it, but the thin light case leaves something to be desired in the acoustics & I used old stock BOX Royals (surprisingly they are not for me & the whole stem cracking thing) on the original build. Gonna tear it apart, put some Outemu Skies with Halo stems in it, & use part of my sheet as the sound dampening material for it. I think that should make it line up with my preferences much better!
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I just got 1/2 of my 50 lb boxes in today! Shipping will commence Monday. Bit by bit so please be patient :). I’ll try my best to have them all out before I leave for NorCal meetup.
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great to hear, looking forward to getting my order!
Progress report for everyone:
Still waiting on the last big box, but packing and shipping has commenced.
Going at a pace of at least a half dozen orders a night. 6 x 5 = 30+ orders shipped out a week. There were about 80ish orders; so I should have these done either by, or right after the Bay Area Mechanical Keyboard Meetup next week.
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Sounds good Huey! Thanks for the update
I don’t know what the crossover for people are but;
If you are attending the Bay Area Mechanical Keyboard meetup, you can pick it up from me there if you’d like. Please let me know if that is what you’d prefer.
I got my sheet today. Quick question: Is this stuff easily removable down the road? It feels a bit stickier than I expected.
I finished a build a couple of weeks ago on an 1800 where I had a layer of Sorbothane making solid contact with both the PCB and the case, and after a few days, I had to go back in to do some fine tuning. The Sorbo was pretty solidly stuck to both surfaces, but I found that by prying with steady, level pressure, eventually the Sorbo started to peel away from one side, and by maintaining the steady prying force, eventually one side peeled away cleanly. From there, I was able to manually peel it away from the other side.
So, if by ‘easily removable’ you mean ‘cleanly without residue’, yes. If you mean ‘without much force or care’, probably not.
Some people just leave the backing on both sides of the sheet when they put it in the case, to avoid the problem entirely. I’ve never tried that.
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Looks like folks are getting their sheets in. Were these sent out with tracking, or will it be a surprise? All good, I just didn’t know if mine was on the way or will be soon.
think it’s possible SMD components like diodes and resistors can be torn away from the PCB?
Good question. I haven’t heard of that happening, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened to someone…
At least in the situation I described earlier, I didn’t think it was likely, but that was in part because I took my time - just enough force for the Sorbothane to peel away slowly, and no more - and in part because I’ve worked with it before, and while it’s sticky, I don’t think it’s quite that sticky.
With that said, I would like to try just leaving the backing material on the Sorbo sheet, to see whether that negatively affects the sound dampening. If it does, then at least we’re not in any worse shape since we can just peel the backing off to get back to the result we already had, and if it doesn’t, then that’s even better, since it would be much easier to work with if the keyboard has to be reopened for maintenance.
Another approach, which interested me primarily as a way to keep costs down, but which might also be beneficial for this potential adhesion issue, is to just use a lot less of the Sorbothane. I’ve been finding that only a few strips are needed between the plate and PCB to significantly dampen plate ping, and I think it’s pretty likely that putting a big sheet between the PCB and case is overkill. I’d bet a few narrow strips would buy most of the benefits, and I wouldn’t worry about narrow strips peeling away components from the PCB. Assuming that it does buy you sufficient case dampening, then the only downside I can see with this approach is that you would lose some of the pleasant heft that Sorbothane brings. So it’s a tradeoff.
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thanks for the thoughts. Stuff to keep in mind once I get my sheets
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Thank you Manofinterests for the time --coordinating this buy + fast shipping.
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Thank you!
As an update to all, shipping did hit a small hiccup, but should only put the last order being shipped out a week out from initial expectations. Trying to get everything shipped out before Thanksgiving hehe.
Hi Friends,
Updating once again. Some more sheets have been shipped out, but last week was a lot slower than expected since I had the meetup this past weekend. It’s time to go full speed on shipping again! Dedicating time every night to make sure I have more and more sheets packed up and shipped out.
For those with larger orders, there will be a small delay since I have to grab some boxes for y’all, but it should be soon enough. Thanks for the patience everyone.
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Hi everyone,
I just wanted to say I would like to give a major apology for taking so long. Tonight is one of my biggest packing nights and tomorrow I’ll have a lot of packages to drop off at the post office. By the end of tonight, 90% of everyone should have their tracking numbers, or an email from me regarding their order. Throughout tonight you might even be seeing a notification that a tracking number is added to your order 
Thank you so much for your patience. It means a lot to me.
- Huey aka Manofinterests
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Just finished packing almost every single order!
If you have not received a tracking number, please PM or email me ASAP! There should be 5 of you.
All of these are going out Wednesday 
Extras may or may not be available next week 
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interested in some now lol