I thought I would start my thread on these boards I received over in the photo/video section instead of the marketplace, as it seemed like a more suitable place. If you mods think it should be moved back within that thread, please let me know!
Thank you again to the generous and creative Wodan for preparing and shipping out a bunch of these rabbit hole kits - He could have sold them at a much higher profit on eBay or elsewhere, but he decided to help out some newbs with these starter boards and I happened to be the lucky first one to receive the first kit!
I'm already typing on one of the three boards to create this post, and am loving it! Since I'm a touch typist, and my computer just applied a standard ANSI layout when I plugged it in, the German layout has not given me any issues whatsoever...except for the small learning curve of getting used to an ISO tall skinny Enter, instead of the usual horizontal one I'm used to!
The first board I decided to clean up, and the one I'm typing on, is a lovely little Cherry G80-3000 LSMDE with MX Blues. I would call them vintage blues because they feel sublime compared to my Corsair board with new ones, but I'm really not sure since the board label indicates it was assembled in 2001. It could be down to the fact that these are just very well worn in, but I don't think that accounts for all of it - the click is softer and less annoying, and the switches just glide so much better while typing. It's got thin, lasered PBT caps and a worryingly thin case, with quite a cost-cutting design overall, but there's just something about this board. I know it's held together by clips, the switches are PCB mounted and the PCB itself it basically sitting on a couple of plastic risers in the case and held down by gravity, but IMO it all seems to compliment these light, clicky switches and come together to form an awesome recipe for a touch typist to achieve top typing speeds and hear a lovely clickety clack while doing so. Yes, it also means that there is more possibility for typos, as you will see in my typing test below, but this board has renewed some of my love for Cherry blues that had been lost after having tried many other vintage boards and switches. This keyboard has quickly worked its way into my rotation and I think it's here to stay for the foreseeable future!
Here are some pics of the original package, the clean-up and the finished result, along with a typing test clip I recorded from my Samsung S6 Edge - just so you know what not to expect going into this. Why did I choose this board to clean-up first, you ask? Great question, person who didn't really ask or care why I chose this board first! I chose it because I'm quite lazy and this looked to be the easiest board to clean with the minimal amount of tools I have at my new place. It also looked like it just had some easy to clean surface dirt on it, but was otherwise in great shape. I will post write-ups and photos/typing tests of the next two boards in the near future!
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It was a fun experience. And Wodan - I don't have a dishwasher in my new apartment so boo....who am I kidding though, I'm so paranoid about cleaning this stuff I wouldn't use one anyway haha. 
I did find a great tool on the weekend though - it's basically a larger form of those spinbrush tooth brushes, and it's meant for cleaning grout and hard to reach corners in bathrooms. Works great at getting between all the switches and scraping out all the dirt from the plate.
When it should be delivered i wasn't at home so i had to go to the post office the next day. As i don't have a car and the office is quite a long way from the next train station i had quite a good distance to walk with a big heavy package 
