Update vid with the shroud is up! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nN56lKmZy8yzYmw.html

I bought this keyboard roughly two-three years ago. Now getting into this hobby and time to take it to the next level!

A safer way to pull out the switches without breaking them is to unscrew the whole mounting plate and push the plastic stem (bottom part of the switch housing) from beneath the PCB. This takes a little more effort but if you still want your switches in one piece then I suggest you try this method. I've had this keyboard for a week and pulling out the switches with just the switch puller is quite annoying. I figured I'd do this method when I thought of lubing the switches and it saved me a lot of time and sweat trying to pull out the switches from the top.

The part where you got the Gaterons to fit in the socket earned the sub from me. Definitely going for Gateron yellows now!

Thanks for the video, everything went according to plan and now all my keys work again!

Loving my phantom elite that came with gateron yellow. I clipped and lubed the stabs, also replaced the keycaps with olivia clone and now fitted with the original shroud. Amazing kb for the price.

this keyboard is ahead of its time although they should link replacement switches and provide options without keycaps or switches

just spilled coffee on my Phantom lol, still works

It sounded better than before bro. Love the "thock" sound it makes after. Nice vid!

i have the same keyboard! thank you for this i didn't know i can do customize it like this!!

I use this keyboard and it's amazing, I got the blue switches cause who wouldn't want that satisfying taps. for 46 dollars it's amazing, nice steel build, pretty heavy, and amazing lights.

Finally i know the name of keycaps, thanks dude!

That used to be less than $40 a few years ago when it was released

This might be the best video of the year. At first anyone who's read the Tecware box knows that swapping only works from Outemu to Outemu-- i found the pins are 1.2mm while gaterons are 1.57. I was going to search vids on filing down the contacts as mentioned by reddit when I came upon this first. U just squeezed them narrower! 11:29 That's brilliant! You got me all excitied with possibilities now, though i still have longevity concerns with this pcb b/c it seems 20% of amazon reviews mention failures within a month to 6 months.

damn...i just got myself a tecware phantom elite two hours ago just to hotswap it with the gateron switches... how great if i saw this video a bit earlier

As a person who owns this board and has outemu reds, the yellows do make the board sound very different.

Hey, so for the switches, is all you have to do squeeze them with the pliers? I am thinking of buying gateron yellows but I want to make sure I know what to do with them once I get them lol

How did you fit the Gateron switches in when there is a LED light in the way?? Did you have to trim the switch at all??

Your keyboard looks so gorgeous with that keycap set! I love it! Sounds so good as well! I just picked up the black Royal Kludge RK987 the other day. I got it with the Brown switches (soldered) for only $49 with $5 off coupon. I am using it on my new Mac Mini M1 w/ bluetooth. I don't really game much and just wanted an alternative to the overpriced horrible feeling Apple Magic Keyboard. This keyboard is a dream as well. I really love these brown keys. (I have also used the red keys and like the linear feel.. I imagine your yellows are a dream). Anyways last night, I just bought the same keycap set you bought in this video; thanks for the link! Amazing the quality and aesthetics you can achieve with just $75 :) This RK987 absolutely destroys the Apple Magic Keyboard in quality and aesthetics. This keycap set perfectly matches the silver Mac Mini M1 case with the black apple logo on top of it. (I keep the backlighting turned off.. it's only a white light on the keyboard I got.. but I dont' really care for lighting nor the extra power consumption on bluetooth keyboard).

I got gateron yellows for mine but they didn’t fit because the led white thing blocked the switch from going in. There won’t be a problem with the linked ones in the description right?

Did the switches come 5 pin? If yes, do you need to cut off the two plastic ones to get them to fit?

How did you get the gaterons to work with the SMD leds?

thanks for the help! the key switches are suuper hard to take out

What is other switch tht can fit in this keyboards? With all cutting the pins thingy?

i would have taken the opportunity to lube the switches and mod the included stabs since you went through the trouble of taking all of those switches off. Good video anyway and thanks for showing how to fit gateron in this keyboard i have been looking for this info since early 2019

My only mech keyboard experience is with a razer 2013 with cherry blues. I tried a membrane gaming keyboard that was surprisingly very linear and was enjoyable to type on. I was thinking of getting gateron reds, but would your recommend browns, reds, or yellows?

thank you so much bro i needed this

Dudeeee you can't imagine how fortunate I feel of finding this, I've been planning on buying this keyboard for a long time and I always wondered how much it could be upgraded, nice video, keep it up!

I love mine I have new keycaps and everything on mine it works very well after 1 year

did u do anything with the keyboards? or u just change the switches from outemu red to geteron yellow?

How flush should the switched be? The top part of the switch wont go in for me.

there is still a lot to with this keyboard to sound great, Lubing and sleeving the switches and that's what is did to my Gateron yellow and they sounded and felt insanely good and I also added tape mod and foam and even do the holy mod and cube the stabilizers it takes a lot of time but trust me you will not regret it.

Oh also where'd you get that desk?

Outemu pcb board compatible with gateron/mx cherry switch?

15:24 try lubing & band aiding the stabilizers to remove the rattly sound

Follow-up vid with this keyboard in the works....

I got gateron yellows yesterday and tried to fit them in but it won't go in because of the light? How did you fit them in?

awesome vid, just got this one as my first ever mechanical keyboard and ordered some pudding keycaps online so I can swap them in. Not going to lie though, your keycap colour scheme is sick.

did those let the rgb go through?

So what are the options i have to hot swap?

Try putting music over the time lapse and in the background. Just a thought I think it would sound good

It says on the tecware website that the switches that are only compatible with the PCB are outemu switches, so how did you manage to use gateron switches?

Great Vid! now I can go buy gateron switches, BTW open it up and place a dampener material in the chassis, it really helps

is there any outemu switches that has the same characteristic as gateron yellow?

My mod was putting a black tape piece on those LEDs above the arrow keys. And a foam inside which sure helps with the brown switch noises, but it barely helped with the metallic clang. Might try buying Gateron reds but I am planning to get a Keychron K4 96% keyboard instead of my TKL. I like having a numPad since I like to type. Funny enough I’m typing this on a phone.

I initially planned to get some tyrfing thing or something, but it was out of stock, and I saw this was a similar item so I got it. Glad I did. Didn't even know it's that popular, any time I look up something about what fits in outemu hotswap I see phantom owners lul

Can i put cherry mx speed silvers in this?

Will milky yellows fit in this?

is it compatible with gateron black inks?

newer phantoms with prelubed stabs and foam under the aluminum plate (i know because i just got mine a couple days ago)

Do cherry mx work on this keyboard?

what's the keyboard cleaner thing name? i need those

Looks good m8 have you modded her further since?

I just want youtube to know this was a great recommendation for me 😌

You don't show any RGB after the modding - is that because it just doesn't work very well with these keycaps?

pls make review of tecware phantom+ 87 which is usb c detachable and with tecware prelubed wraith switches.

Yo how many pinks does the tecware take cuz I’m boutta order the yellow but they are 5 pink please help

the keycaps you put in the description, can you use those keycaps for blue switches?

How were you able to sit the switches flush all the way into the keyboard? I have gateron milky yellow pros and I can’t fit them all the way in because the smd led that is on the pcb crashes against the closed bottom housing, as the otemu reds actually have an open space to accommodate this physical led. Thanks! (Great vid btw.)

Tried replacing the original switches with gaterons, but the gaterons did not sit well although they are working fine. Its like they just got in half way...are you experiencing the same problem ?

I bought this keyboard today. I know it has Outemu switches. Do any Cherry MX keycaps fit on Outemu switches?

Thanks for this video mate I had recently gotten this keyboard 2 months ago and had already put keycaps and a shroud, soon to adding switches. (P.S. if you didn’t know Tecware has shrouds for these in case your into that👌) Edit: I just saw your other vid on this keyboard with shroud. Nvm then😅 lol

Ay i also did that in my video (swapping to gateron) but did it with 46 gateron cap v2s!

was thee any interference with the keycaps?

Ive been looking at a keyboard and I wanted to change the esc key to a custom keycap but I cant find any keycaps that would fit a Gateron

I have this exact keyboard and the switches did not fit because there wasn't space for the LED lights to fit. How did you get the switches to fit?

i got a question how were you able to fit your switches into your pcb i'm kinda new to this stuff can you just cut them off?

is it possible to put the holy panda switches in there??

i saw you broke some plastic part of the switch in 10:32, happened to me too when i tried pulling out my switches

Plz answer my question, do you clearly hear the springs in the yellows

I have the exact same pheripherals

Weird question, would love a response lol. Do you have a link for that duster you used if you did buy it online? If not no worries

It wouldn’t be that large of an upgrade, but to make your keyboard look and feel nicer and can put one of the black shrouds on that the sell separately

Hi just wanna ask everyone after hotswapping gateron switcehs into an outemu keyboard does the rgb still shine through

thanks, my first time pulling out a switch and i thought I'd break the damn thing and render that specific switch useless xd

Hah! Budget baller! We've got the same keyboard mouse combo. Well, almost. I still have the stock everything with blues.

But is weird how do OUTEMU switch work with Gateron switch?

also tecware now makes their own keycaps that shine rgb through them just thought that might be good in the video updated

Do the LEDs still work?

using dolch keycap...is it backlight supported?

what shroud do u think would look better with it the black one or he white one and u just got a new subscriber

are the red switches really that bad? Because I ordered my tecware phantom 87 with reds but I might return it if they are that bad idk, but if they are that bad I might get the blue switches someone pls help

since gateron yellows fit in the pcb, would akkos fit as well?

if you want to get a 60 then get the rk61 i returned mine because i need the f1 etc and the arrow keys

I wonder if this can be done with gateron brown switches?

have you seen Tecware Shroud? it should look great with your keycaps!

is this the regular one or the elite version? I have the regular one and my friend said it's only for outemu switches?

Did u buy the tecware phantom elite?

how to choose the keycaps?

I got low profile one, i love it, it hot swapable, but to get low profile switch is a pain

TFW you get the phantome elite version and have prebuilt gateron yellows installed.

bro you should lube it, i lubed my oetemu reds on this keyboard and it sounded heavenly...

when i put my switches on mine they dont work

and how do u check that whether your keyboard is hot swappable?

Is it tecware phabtom elite?

b68 is out in Philippines

i ordered the same gateron yellows as this, but they had no pins? did i order the wrong switches? they dont seem to work

I heard the Akko CS Switches fit this keyboard perfectly.

Can I put cherry MX without having to squeeze the pin?

Does this work with Phantom L?