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@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@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
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