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Updated with two rarer Model Ms.

Was comparing from memory and my impression was based mostly on their sound, I guess. Amended OP, thanks for chiming in. Like I said, I haven't really touched any vintage switches in 3+ years. Having listened to some samples, I still think this board does sound a good deal like Futabas, with the ...

@tactica: Feel free to do with the pictures as you please. I'll upload some more shortly, including a timestamp. Sadly, I can't find the time these days for wiki maintenance.

The blue sub-legends do not look like they are pad printed at all as there is no 'embossed' quality to them at all. My guess ...

Hey folks. Am back after a 3 1/2 years' absence, trying to sell some stuff...

Acer / MultiTech Accufeel DIN AZERTY F&F

Used to be part of an MPF III Apple II clone system, I think. This one looks really nice and works great with my DIN-USB adapter. It has the rarish MultiTech foam and foil ...

Tandon + Dell spoken for

Marked some items as free for pickup.

Laptop powers up just fine!

Will try laptop / power. Nope, sold that Schneider case a good long while ago.

bümpety-bümp

I'm sure that was a typo.

My recommendation: Try Kailh box royals. They are medium weight, extremely sharply tactile and when the lube wears off after a couple of weeks they even become clicky. Excellent switches all round!

The board that Thorogrimm is now selling has white Alps-mount linears on the alphas that I took from two numpads.

All the examples I've seen in full keyboards were tactile: yellow, green and white. The difference between them is not terribly significant, probably just the weighting and possibly the ...

I think what happens is that the metal of the top housing (silly choice of material!) corrodes and thus become rough and / or interacts with the plastic of the slider hence I considered WD-40 to be ideally suited as:

WD-40 isn't actually a true lubricant. WD stands for "water displacing" and its ...

Never seen those before and can't find em on the wiki...

Wow, pretty cool, thanks!

Made in Japan; what do we reckon? Something Fujitsu underneath (LED in top left of switch)? Plug is round, but I guess it won't be standard DIN...

I was trying to make a fine distinction between bouncy and mushy.

For me, 'mushy' means that a lot of your kinetic energy just dissipates on bottoming out. As material representing this quality, I would suggest some sort of foam or sponge.

Bouncy, however, describes a kind of trampoline effect ...

Ahhh, this is great stuff, thank y'all for your input! Keyboard.io gives you one palm button for each hand. But this nifty device can easily give you three per hand. Even elbow keys could now become a thing!! Now I'll just have to find one in reasoably appealing condition...

Just saw this 'Creative Labs Prodikeys DM' keyboard (!) for the first time ever. If I could somehow program those musical keys, this would be sort of like a wet dream of my keyboarding "career"! Does anyone know if that's at all possible - or do they just produce sound from some internal speaker ...

Die leihste mir dann mal aus, wenn fertig, ja? Cursor keys: my vote is for version A!

Bump - only Cherry case freebies for now

Bump for added Videowriter SKCM brown boards and a German IBM Battleship

Thanks for chiming in!

It would seem then that while concial springs could approximate what I want, the MX platform isn't designed to accomodate them. Spirit's progressive springs therefore achieve progression with a fixed diameter but increasing distance between coils; not sure what the technical ...

Yes, a non-linear spring would do that, except non-linear springs don't exist according to this very interesting bit of keyboard science that I just managed to dig up. This supports Bjerrk's and my contention above that, really, a second element (spring, foam or whatever) is needed to properly ...

Well, the idea is that it should be bouncy rather than mushy. There is a difference...

Tactility isn't what I'm talking about as it is supposed to signal actuation rather than the physical end of the movement so it is usually placed far above the switch's bottom.

Yeah, of course, a second spring might work even better than something involving foam, though it would mean a complete switch redesign as opposed to just sticking some kind of foam in or around the switch somwhere . I have a feeling that a leaf spring might be particularly well suited to the task ...

This is fun! I should do more trolling in the future!


1. This is some grade-A copypasta beauty. Thank you for enriching my life with this bit of self-aggrandizing horseshittery.
You're not much one for subtlety and irony then?

2. Literally nobody has made the argument. that that minor ...

Thanks for your input.

I would posit that for an ideal typing experience there should be an element either inside or outside (like a high-tech O-ring) the switch itself hat while signalling clearly to the finger that the end of the motion has been reached, is designed to 1. return as much of the ...

1. I knew I shouldn't have tried to enlighten this haven of keyboard luddites and traditionalists with my brilliant idea, should have just gone straight to reddit!
2. The argument that minor improvements in typing feel and speed don't matter is pretty rich on a forum where many spend100s of $$ to ...

Old luggable with rare USw LMBW02 switches. Pity the whole assembly is in such a dilapidated state...

Get those O-rings if you're set on keeping your current setup for a cheap and quick fix. If hardware can be changed, I second XMIT's praise of box switches in general and the silent browns in particular.

To get back at the whining bastards, though, claim you have developed RSI and just use ...

Well, this is the key passage:

The Nike Vaporfly sole helps runners lose less energy per step

Jake Riley, an American runner who finished ninth in the 2019 Chicago marathon, has said the Nike Vaporfly 4% shoes feel like „running on trampolines.“

The secret is in the sole, which is designed to ...