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Damn you raised them right good on you
Little story. My cleaning lady sucked the P key off my keyboard without realizing it. No big deal, ordered new key caps. My older kid (14) has really taken to my love of mech’s, so when these came he wanted to swap them. However he realized how gross this keyboard was. So he wanted to make it a little dad / son project. Since it’s a bit of a toss away, I let him run it through the dishwasher to clean up all the grime. Then he decided to paint it, so he masked it all off. A bunch of matte blue coats later he was re-keying the board. The end result came great, amplified by the fact that my 14 year old did it for me. >

What kind of paint did you use? >

Just some basic Rustoleum 2x (Paint + Primer) matte blue spray paint that we had lying around. >

You mean primer right?:) >

Fixed. Oops! >

Great son you have there 👌 >

Definitely a keeper. I love that he enjoys random upgrade projects like this.  The keyboard was essentially a toss away, but I appreciate that he wanted to swap the keys and clean it up. The value to me went up 10 fold just because of the effort he put into it to learn. >

Would the opposite of a keeper be … an adoptee? >

Dumpster baby >

W son >

Are you winning, son? >

Grandad? >

Great kid! >

W kid, W dad, W keyboard, W life, W everything >

It turned out looking really good! >

That’s awesome!  What a cool dad moment!  I hope my kiddos do things like this, even if not for me.  I’ve been trying to get my almost 8 year old interested in the hobby.  He’s got a limited attention span but likes it so far.  Anyway, thanks for sharing. >

Get him some clicky keys that will get him interested. That's what got my older one started. He's since moved on to reds since he uses his home computer for mostly gaming, but the click clack drew him in. >

That’s a good idea!  Hadn’t thought of it. Thanks! >

Looks great! Very wholesome >

wholesome W >

Wait u ran the entire keyboard thru the dishwasher and it still works lol? That bitch resilient >

Eh it’s fine. I blew it out with compressed air then used a blow dryer and a bit of air drying. She was all good. If it was a keyboard I really cared about I probably wouldn’t chance it with the PCB and switches installed but it did the trick in a pinch. >

Bruh >

This makes me happy >

Why didn't you guys take the pcb out of the case to paint? >

That would have been the ideal thing to do, but it was a somewhat spur-of-the-moment. If it were a keyboard I cared about, it would have had proper prep. He did blow it out with compressed air and a blow dryer afterward. Everything worked when we powered it back up, so I'll take it. But again, don't try this at home. >

sweet >

He did a great job, enjoy it! >

wow that looks great ! >

Cool bonding moment! It turned out great! >

Damn you raised them right good on you >

Awesome and wholesome! You must be very proud. >

This is 100% factual. >

Congrats! That's a better paint job than anything I've ever tried. >

Shouldn't use a vacuum on a keyboard because of static reasons, but a missing keycap is always a good shout to getting a new keycap set >

Yeah, that wasn't my doing at all. I actually thought it was funny because I couldn't figure out where the heck it went. Then it dawned on me to ask the cleaning lady, and sure enough, it was in her vacuum bag. However, without that, this nonsense spiral of a story wouldn't have happened. >

Awesome job!! Great upgrade looks great 👍🏻 >

I thought the upgrade was the keycap missing for a sec lmao. High key jealous of your new board! >

Kid deserves a raise >

Your kid kinda looks like kai haverts >

You are setting very high standards for my future children, my friend .. >

seeing something like this really makes me happy, your boy has a great dad! :)
Also good job and welcome to the rabbit hole young man! >

He has already started the spiral. He's on his 3rd keyboard already. Christmas got him a Drop CTRL, but he's already eyeing up a full DIY kit. I figured baby steps. >

Exactly how it should be :) >

Hold up people be putting pics of their kids on the internet? >

Browns -_- >

True. Not my favorite. >

You allowed your child to use browns? Good lord man >

Are you hating on browns? >

They are pretty meh. Jack of not much, master of none. >

All good but not the browns 😢. Anything else if it's hotswapp board I'll ship you better switches right now >

I don’t like browns either, but this is a hold over board. Personally for typing I prefer blues. Truthfully for this station I want to go with an ergonomic keyboard. Debating between a Moonlander and a couple other interesting designs. The intention with this was to just replace the caps and make it whole again, he just took it to another level. >

if you like blues and have never tried kailh box clicky switches like box white, pink, jade, etc, you should try them out, personally i like them a lot more >

Yeah they're great. Also they have a click bar rather than a click jacket, meaning they'll click twice (on downstroke and when releasing the key). They sound awesome too. I love Kailh clickies. >

Like how you’ve managed to keep the led indicators in tact. Looks good! >

He did that all with a razor. I was really impressed when he peeled it off. >

I didn’t have the slightest urge post to r/gatekeeping while reading these comments! Proud of you guys! ❤️ >

Little story. My cleaning lady sucked the P key off my keyboard without realizing it. No big deal, ordered new key caps. My older kid (14) has really taken to my love of mech’s, so when these came he wanted to swap them. However he realized how gross this keyboard was. So he wanted to make it a little dad / son project. Since it’s a bit of a toss away, I let him run it through the dishwasher to clean up all the grime. Then he decided to paint it, so he masked it all off. A bunch of matte blue coats later he was re-keying the board. The end result came great, amplified by the fact that my 14 year old did it for me. >

What kind of paint did you use? >

Just some basic Rustoleum 2x (Paint + Primer) matte blue spray paint that we had lying around. >

You mean primer right?:) >

Fixed. Oops! >

Great son you have there 👌 >

Definitely a keeper. I love that he enjoys random upgrade projects like this.  The keyboard was essentially a toss away, but I appreciate that he wanted to swap the keys and clean it up. The value to me went up 10 fold just because of the effort he put into it to learn. >

Would the opposite of a keeper be … an adoptee? >

Dumpster baby >

W son >

W son >

W son >

Great kid! >

W kid, W dad, W keyboard, W life, W everything >

It turned out looking really good! >

That’s awesome!  What a cool dad moment!  I hope my kiddos do things like this, even if not for me.  I’ve been trying to get my almost 8 year old interested in the hobby.  He’s got a limited attention span but likes it so far.  Anyway, thanks for sharing. >

Get him some clicky keys that will get him interested. That's what got my older one started. He's since moved on to reds since he uses his home computer for mostly gaming, but the click clack drew him in. >

That’s a good idea!  Hadn’t thought of it. Thanks! >

Looks great! Very wholesome >

wholesome W >

Wait u ran the entire keyboard thru the dishwasher and it still works lol? That bitch resilient >

Eh it’s fine. I blew it out with compressed air then used a blow dryer and a bit of air drying. She was all good. If it was a keyboard I really cared about I probably wouldn’t chance it with the PCB and switches installed but it did the trick in a pinch. >

Bruh >

This makes me happy >

Why didn't you guys take the pcb out of the case to paint? >

That would have been the ideal thing to do, but it was a somewhat spur-of-the-moment. If it were a keyboard I cared about, it would have had proper prep. He did blow it out with compressed air and a blow dryer afterward. Everything worked when we powered it back up, so I'll take it. But again, don't try this at home. >

sweet >

He did a great job, enjoy it! >

wow that looks great ! >

Cool bonding moment! It turned out great!