Thanks!
I will have to give this a try. I have a heavy grail coming but I’m a bit hesitant so I’ll hafta test it on on a Realforce first
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Waiting patiently for this…
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Waiting impatiently for this…
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Was pretty ill over the weekend, so didn’t get much progress done then. Working on it this week though!
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Dangit! Now I look like a jerk lol.
Hope you’re on the mend!
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I got mine in the other day, gonna try them in my norbaforce that’s been sitting for a while since the BKE heavies are really just too much for me
While you’re already doing the dome swap, a veeery thin layer of dielectric on the PCB does wonders with springs banging around underneath the domes. I used to hate that on my Realforce, and it got better from doing this.
If you use too much, the springs may bind on the PCB slightly and double keypresses will thus not register sometimes. Simple fix is to just open it up again and spread it around and wipe your finger and repeat a few times!
is the springs thing an issue with these domes specifically? I never had any issue with the springs banging around with either the stock domes or the BKE redux, lubing the PCB sounds like a giant mess and waste of lube to me.
Not lube - dielectric grease. Like Permatex!
When I smack my keycaps I could feel the springs sort of bouncing around from the force. I noticed with my 55g topre that on the return I could sometimes feel it too.
I guess it depends on your board, but it made the overall typing feel a lot more solid for me!
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great mod! I’ll be trying this soon myself. hehe.
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new weight 70g green dropped recently as i went to purchase Tiffanys at 35g. wonder what beefcake fingers i’d need for 70g.
I just want to say that the Des-domes are very nice. I like them way more than the BKE domes that Keyclack carries. I recently got the purple ones (49g) and they are really close to the OG Topre domes. They have a little more tactility compared to 45g and they’re slightly sharper but moving forward, I highly recommend these over the Keyclack Topre domes if you like the rounded Topre typing experience or if you just want to try different weights.
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I would absolutely agree with this assessment. I got the pink ones rather than the purple ones but I enjoy them immensely and actually like typing on my novatouch again. I usually swap out what board I’m using at home every few days but the novatouch sat there for a solid few weeks after I put the domes in and I just keep going back to it, they feel soooooo good.
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sorta in the spirit of this thread: is there a dedicated Topre Mods thread?
I had a few questions I wanted to ask and thought a dedicated topre mods thread would be useful but I didn’t want to start one if there was one already. A few searches came up empty.
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I would be interested in a Topre mods thread 
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I’ll be opening up my fc660c tomorrow so I’ll try to document everything that I run through when modding my topre board. I’ll start the thread when I’m done!
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awesome! look forward to it!
Does anyone know what color would feel around the same weighting as HHKB? I have a 104 UG and the stock weighting of the keys is just too light for me.
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I also really want to know this one, I love my hhkb weight wise but wouldn’t mind if it was slightly more noticeable in the tactility department
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