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Yes I much preferred this since the matias dampened sliders felt really mushy too me on the downstroke. I prefer the upstroke to be silenced though. I kept the numbers on the keyboard for a few days stock and would compare from time to time, once the upstroke was dampened the board was a tad quieter ...

HI Guys thought I would share with your my recent attempts at modding my blue alps. Firstly I don't really think that the blue alps require modding, they are an excellent switch stock and modding was only for my peculiar interest

I've taken the matias liner damped sliders and switched them over ...

Why do I keep coming back here when I want to save money?

Hi Khers, I am not affiliated with this site nor have I used their services however I did note free international shipping and it was the first vendor that came to mind.

Hope it helps http://lasergist.com/

Perhaps you can enquire about the feasibility of a brass plate

Hello everyone - found these two interesting boards

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Cherry-G81-3000-Hertha-BSC-Tastatur-Keyboard-Doubleshots-Vintage-G80-ISO-WoB-/332184213058?hash=item4d57b8d642:g:wdUAAOSwzqFY8job

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Cherry-G81-3000HAD-Tastatur-Keyboard-Doubleshots-Vintage-NIB-NEU-G80 ...

Will Matias ever release PBT caps?

Thanks for the write up Hypersphere, I did notice in some older threads that you mentioned you were in possession of some of the alps sprit springs, however I saw no mention of them in this "approaching endgame" build. Was there a particular reason you decided to stick with the stock blue alps ...

Ah thanks for that, shame that matias quiet clicks are sold out everywhere.

If anyone has some for sale to fill a 60% let me know

Well it took a better part of a week but I managed to pretty much read all posts in this thread to get up to speed with ALPS. Thanks to everyone who was kind to share their knowledge.

Just wondering, since the tactile leaf and switch plate is a considerable factor in the weight of the switch, am I ...

http://www.ebay.de/itm/COMMODORE-C128-C ... Swol5Yzq6v

NIB - Not sure about these switches, perhaps mx black?

I could not agree more with Hypersphere, but if you do start getting into old Alps be prepared to encounter disappointments along the way more than once.

Something like this is a good cheap beginning:

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Apple-Tastatur-Extended-Keyboard-II-mit-ADB-Anschlus-/182485589420?hash ...

Thanks very much for the links, but I was wondering isn't the DELL a different sort of switch?.

Must admit I have only been in Germany after coming from the other side of the world and I've already bought myself 3 vintage cherry boards :lol: . I thought I would be blowing the money on touristy ...

I could not agree more with Hypersphere, but if you do start getting into old Alps be prepared to encounter disappointments along the way more than once.

Something like this is a good cheap beginning:

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Apple-Tastatur-Extended-Keyboard-II-mit-ADB-Anschlus-/182485589420?hash ...

This was an awesome idea Wodan.

I'm actually bidding on that mac kb haha as for the the wallet depletion, I bought a set of HS's so I'm helping fund yours too :)

Yes the reason why I'm searching for alps boards is to build a custom board, I don't enjoy anything larger than 60% simply because of desk space and that I travel with ...

Educate me ?

Was hope to get my first alps board, only had a brief encounter with Matias switches and thought they were great and then heard alps are considerable better.

The Philips PM 3655 (white alps) I was looking at just sold for 128.78 EUR

I bailed out around the 30 EUR mark, was not expecting it to get so high