Mechmarket might be a good place to check
Mechmarket might be a good place to check
I haven’t fact checked this at all but apparently lowprokb.ca is working with Kailh on some choc v1 compatible silent switches which could potentially be used in those boards. Not sure when they’ll be available though
typeractive.xyz is great. It’s run by the maker of the nice!nano microcontroller which is one of the defacto standards for wireless splits. They can be built without any soldering if you get the no solder hot swap headers (for the MCU)
Yes, it’s pretty much that simple but you will also need to change your stabs since there are now two keys to stabilize. That means you might have to take pretty much the whole board apart depending on what kind of stabs you have. It will likely be 2 × 2u stabs
Before I sold my FC660C, I took it apart and lubed the sliders a few times with trybosis 3204. It was my first time taking apart a keyboard and wasn’t particularly difficult and the stabilizer keys are really just wider regular topre keys. There is a wire, but it’s inside the key instead of over top like cherry. A good set of tweezers is all you need. There’s a good video by Taeha Types about lubing an HHKB which was not all that different. I’d say the most tedious thing about it was just how many screws there are holding the PCB to the plate
A few things to watch out for:
Feel free to reach out if you have any specific questions! :)