Re: [sudo-discuss] mx brown switches in salvage

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(a)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(a)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) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sudo-discuss mailing list >> sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org >> https://sudoroom.org/lists/listinfo/sudo-discuss >> >> >> >