60% O-ring Mount Acrylic Case

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Our o-ring mount acrylic case is a brand new case style. It differs from our normal stacked mount acrylic design and therefore offers a different typing experience. Unlike our stacked mount cases, the plate is not shown on the sides of the case.

An o-ring is placed between the plate and PCB provides friction to hold the plate/PCB assembly in our case. Cutouts on the PCB allow the o-ring to rest on the mounting points built into the case. This mounting style results in a very bouncy typing experience and great sounding board. 

Case Specs:

• 7 main case layers and stand layers
  
• High profile case
• 5-6 degree typing angle (varies because of acrylic thickness)
  
• SMK logo on bottom layer
• Centered USB Daughterboard placement
• Standard USB port placement -- only DZ60 Flex PCBs

What's Included?

• Acrylic case layers
• Hardware (screws and standoffs)
• Hex tool
• Rubber feet
• Daughterboard fastening hardware (daughterboard option is selected)
• Screws with nuts
• 50A Durometer o-ring
• Plate (if ordered)

Compatibility of Parts:

PCBs:

• Standard "Unikorn" mounting points PCBs. For example the Jay60 (mechlovin), Plain60-flex (open sourced PCB), Bakeneko60 (from CannonKeys), H60, Cascade60, etc.
• The JST location on the PCB does not matter
• DZ60 Flex PCB (only supports the DZ60 FLEX edition)

Plates: 

• Any standard 60% plate should be compatible. Although, I am not guaranteeing 100% that they will work.
• kbdfans 60% plates (aluminum and polycarbonate -- personally tested)
• 1upkeyboard plates (carbon fiber  -- personally tested)
• Any plate we provide will be 100% compatible.

O-ring:

• The provided o-ring (50A) with the purchase of this case is supported
• GraveShift o-rings, specifically when using screw in stabilizers (Vendors: mech.land and graveshift)
• CannonKeys Bakeneko60 o-rings

Daughterboards:

• CannonKeys daughterboard (my personal favorite)
• hineybush USB-C Daughterboard
• Daughterboards that follow the UnifiedDaughterboard design.

Daughterboards that have the USB-port and the JST connectors on opposite sides will NOT work with our case (see product photos)

Recommendations:

• If you plan to use hotswap PCB, I recommend a 'stiffer' plate such as a metal or FR4 plate to assist with keeping the switches in the PCB. A soft plate material (PETG/POM/IMA) may be difficult to install the o-ring without pressing too hard and removing some switches in the corners of the PCB.
• We strongly recommend soldered builds for this case. 
  
• We also recommend using clip-in stabilizers for this case. More specifically, for the spacebar and backspace stabilizers. Screw-ins may work but may interfere with the default o-ring provided with this case. If you try to force the assembled plate+PCB with screw-in stabilizers, you may break or damage your o-ring.
• I have used GraveShift o-rings with screw in stabilizers (on both the backspace and spacebar) and had no issues installing the PCB/plate into the case. 

 

Assembly:

You case will come assembled in the correct order of layers required to assemble and use this case. Each case will come with a "friction layer" which is visibly different than all other layers. The inside cuts are made closer to the PCB so the o-ring has enough friction for the PCB/plate to stay in place.

If you have ordered a case with no blockers, you can remove and place the PCB/plate combo freely without disassembly of the case.

If you ordered a case with blockers, you will have to remove the top two layers with blockers. With the top layers removed, you can place the PCB/plate combo into the case and put the two top blocker layers back on top and screw the case together again.

 

Sound Test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc2WWxrAdoE