Keychron K6 Keyboard MODS! - WORTH IT!

ah the kikron k6 this has been my daily driver keyboard ever since its review and i mean that's because of the trifecta right 65 layout wireless and hot swappable this thing is like my setup has never looked this clean because aside from my headphone cables which no one is going to take away from me i mean this has been the next best thing especially and i am especially in love with the 65 layout so much so that this is actually my second one because as i told you guys in the review that i was going to i went back and customized my first one just to see how much it would take to actually get it to the next level and as it turns out didn't take all that much [Music] so in this review i told you that the k6 was a little bit too loud for my tastes not extremely but it could do with something to dampen that sound profile a little bit and i tried o-rings with it but that just like destroyed the experience too mushy and unpleasant plus there was a lot of unused hollow space inside the case and since it isn't that much of a heavier case being all plastic that was definitely not helping with sound profile so in order to combat that we are going to need to lube the switches clip and loop the stabilizers bandaid mod the pcb and add something to insulate the inside of the case which is going to be foam in this case now that last part you could do with magnetic tape which would also add a little bit of heft to the actual case and this is thanks to an actual comment on the review of the k6 but i ended up going for insulating with phone material because my main concern here was to dampen as much of the sound as possible now full disclaimer before you go try and do something like that with your keyboard this is a time-consuming process even if you're good at it so if you're not a patient person or you can't get yourself you can can't bring yourself to meditate and use this time to gather your thoughts or just relax with a pair of headphones a nice tune a nice album to listen to and you know just go with flow you might end up coming out of this process with hatred in your soul just saying you've been warned now first order of the day is organization what you're going to need well you're going to need at least three or four bins or pots to be able to deal with all the little bits and pieces that are going to be scattered all over your workspace then you're going to need lube in this case i'm using and i actually recommend using grade 0 crytox 205 or any other dialectic grease level loop that's quite viscous a small brush and if you don't have one yourself do like i did and borrow one to you know use since you know you don't have one you need band-aids or anything else that would substitute a band-aid a switch opener or a pair of tweezers which is what i actually used for all my process a cuticle cutter or an exacto knife clippers or a sharp pocket knife anything that you can be precise with while cutting small pieces of plastic a pair of scissors and eva foam or any other material like that so first take apart your entire keyboard keycap switches pcb base plate the works now we could start from anywhere but i would just suggest when you know start from the inside of the actual case with the eva foam so just cut it to size fitting all the different little spots making sure that there's enough holes and spaces for every little screw button switches pins and obviously the battery cables make sure that nothing is you know squished in then there are the stabilizers easy clap just separate them cut the little legs that poke too much from underneath lube the center pylons on all sides and the actual housing from the inside loop the ends of the wires and then just put it all together again cut small pieces of band-aid to place exactly where the stabilizers sit on top of the pcb and that part is done and all of that together is actually the easy stuff so now that that's over it's time to start attacking the switches to open them up push the pins on either side and carefully disassemble them each switch is comprised of the base of the housing the top shell the actual stem the springs and the metal contacts inside which we are not going to touch i'm just telling you guys that there are that there's that stuff inside do not touch them leave them be now first you paint the insides of these shafts and the outside of the center pillar on the base shell with a thin coat of loop and the thin part is important because if you use too much you're you can mess with the way the switch feels but more importantly it could make the lube actually leak from the switch into the pcb and then you can have problems with you know contacting stuff which can be solved with like 90 alcohol but you don't really want another process to go through after you're done right then you want to lube the springs and there are a couple of different methods that you could use one of them being the obviously easier than the others which is using a plastic bag throw in the springs a little bit of lube and shake it all about to the tune of your favorite song until it's you know an even coating or you could go and one by one paint the tops and bottoms of every single spring and or apply a thin even coat on across the entire thing which is the process i ended up using but before i actually started with the springs i realized something there was another aspect of typing on the k6 that i wanted to try and fix which is the fact that i like a little bit more heft a little more actuation force needed to type on my switches so i ended up going back to my kaihua linear switches the silver ones and took them all apart to you know switch up the springs because the springs on the kahua switches are quite a bit tougher than the ones on the gatarons now okay spring's done now you loop both sides or all the sides of the stem of the switch and place them on the spring that's being you know held up by the bottom housing now if you're using switches that are either tactile or clicky actually painting these two legs on the switch might kind of ruin the feel or make it not as pronounced of a you know tactile bump or click so just be careful not to you know ruin the feel that you want to from your switch okay now all that's left is to paint the inside of the shafts on the top part of the housing push it all together and voila you're done well do that 67 more times then you're done yeah now as painful as the process sounds i actually enjoyed it it was calming it was soothing to you know just put on my headphones listen to good music and just go through the journey but truth be told if this whole thing didn't yield results i would have been pissed but thankfully the board went from something like this to sounding like that so much smoother so much software so much talk here it's tight the new sound profile on the k6 is much better than the original one because it's quieter at the same time being heavier sounding and much less intrusive but i gotta say the one change that really took it to the next level for me in the feels of the typing was exchanging the springs inside the switches that made a huge difference but as for this process i do need to remind you guys of one thing this isn't a one-time only deal thing and you're done as time goes by and you use your keyboard more and more you are going to have to reapply lube to your switches at some point because as you guys know not every single key on a keyboard gets the same amount of use especially if you're a gamer these four keys are definitely going to have much more use than everything else now is this modded version of the k6 this quietest sounding keyboard ever now of course not linear switches with films perhaps a heavier set of keycaps a different build on base plate and definitely heavier and thicker cases would make for a diff a deeper sound possibly more controlled sound profile but i'm really happy with the way that things have turned out so far with the k6 plus as a bonus this white keycap set which by the way hasn't been released just yet so i'm gonna have to talk to you guys about it later but this thing actually compensated the lack of you know vibrancy on the lighting on the k6 because the actual fonts are more open they're bigger and heavier looking despite being clear and quite elegant so it actually helps with illumination as well so another win so in the end on top of being an excellent value for the build and the feature set despite or perhaps because of the room for improvement the k6 is an excellent candidate for modding unless you're dead set on using a custom cable because this left side connector definitely won't make stuff that much easier but then again this is wireless why would you go for a wireless keyboard if you wanted you know to use a cable right either way that's been it hope you guys enjoyed the video so like subscribe hit the bell to be notified of new stuff coming up and leaving a comments or suggestions down below as usual if you're feeling like it thanks a lot for watching this is gus and i'll catch you guys [Music] later

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Keywords: Keyboard, review, keyboard review, gateron brown switches, gateron, hot-swap, keychron, keychron k6, custom switches, typing test, keychron k6 typing test, keychron k6 review, hotswappable, cherry mx switches, mechanical keyboard, wireless mechanical keyboard, wireless mechanical hot-swap, keyboard mods, modification, switch lubrification, mechanical keyboard customization, custom keyboard, custom mechanical keyboard, band-aid mod, pcb modding, switch modding, custom stabilisers

Id: nmmsC-69nls

Length: 10min 11sec (611 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 05 2020