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It's never too late for such kind of documentation. Who knows in the future who could need it! A lot of vintage parts are still buried somewhere

Thanks for your help!
Luca

kbdfr wrote: 10 Feb 2022, 15:08 How about enriching the header collection with a nice pic of your keyboard?
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Oh , yess , I'll do it

Luca

Hello,

a forum member asked me to disassemble and take pictures of my Olivetti WS 685 terminal keyboard.

The keyboard is brand new, salvaged from a recycling center.
Switches are Cherry MX blacks, caps are DS and it is internally marked as Cherry G80 series. I have no more information about it ...

Very impressive! Though I must admit I laughed a bit when you used a pen to outline the holes just after showing a cad model of the part when then was laser cut and bended :)


I had a hard time to convince a local plastic laser cutting shop to cut me the foam from the cad model but after 5 ...

Very nice restore! I’ve had one like this in the past and what really kill things is if the springs and stems are rusted though, so I’m glad yours was salvageable!

How did you restore the case? Chemicals vs sandblasting, or both? What type of paint?


I gave the case to a car paint shop and a ...

I've restored a pretty rusty 3101 but this is another level! amazing work, an inspiration for sure. I also couldn't believe the work you put into modelling and producing replacement switch and back plates! Are these resources you'd consider sharing with the community?


I was wondering the same ...

Hi!

Thank You all for the kind words!

Yes I did repaint the cover, but as I anticipated in the audio , due to covid, I could'nt shoot the video of the paint job. I have no paint code because I just brought everything to a "body shop" and they have something like a colorimeter and a machine that ...

Wow, this is really cool!

Amazing labor of love! Beautiful result from a badly deteriorated start point.

Love the aesthetics of the keyboard, as well as the other vintage equipment used to fix it (blue vice, soldering iron)! And I also love the marine cold weather gloves.

Very creative use of ...

Hi,

I completed a restoration project of an IBM 3278 series terminal beamspring keyboard and usb convertion.

I have to thank Deskthority user Pandrew for his great design of a low cost and effective beamspring usb converter and my friends Andrea and Marco from the italian mechanical keyboard "CCC ...

M9HM wrote: 05 Feb 2021, 10:21

Erderm_ wrote: 08 Jan 2021, 06:46 Large update coming soon! For now just a little teaser

LEAVE THE CASE AS IT IS IN THIS PICTURE. ITS FANTASTIC!

I totally agree!!!!!
Luca

Let me proudly present my IBM "industrial" 3276 Data entry I. Caps are from a selectric I, still looking for the blue ones.

Enjoy!


Hi,
Did "industrial" models really exist or are these just custom painted?
Really nice beamsprings anyway.
Luca


It is a powdercoat, industrial beamsprings ...

shine wrote: 27 Jan 2021, 14:07 Let me proudly present my IBM "industrial" 3276 Data entry I. Caps are from a selectric I, still looking for the blue ones.

Enjoy!

Hi,
Did "industrial" models really exist or are these just custom painted?
Really nice beamsprings anyway.
Luca

Hi,

lately I completed a mechanical retrofit to a CHERRY G81 1800 HQU rubberdome keyboard.
This keyboard has nice double shot keycaps and I found a new and very cheap one on a local listing.
The retrofit involved replacing the pcb with a G80 1800 Leeche (cina) one and adding a self designed ...

Hi,
I like linears and I find that mx blacks are too heavy for my fingers too.

I usually replace them with lubed Gateron yellows as You can see here, where I replaced even the pcb in a g81. If You buy them from china they are extremely cheap.

I remind You that, if you plan to install a controller, all metal parts must be in electrical contact with each other and grounded to the controller, especially the upper and lower plates or Your controller will read wrong and erratic capacitance from the key presses.

Luca

Hey guys! An update:

It recently came to my attention that some 327x/3101 keyboards have assymetric card edge fingers, meaning the depth is different. This is a view from the bottom:
3276_assymetric_card_edge_connector.png
So the rows side (the right side when you look from on top of the keyboard ...

No , these come from a demolition center, I had to rebuild everything, they were just a pile of rust, I'll publish a video about the restoration but I'm non quite at the finish line yet.
:)
Luca

THESE!!!! WOW, let me know if there could be any chance to acquire one for me, I might be of some ...

Hi,
awsome work!

I'm in the process of restoring an IBM 3276 keyboard ( https://deskthority.net/wiki/File:3276.jpg ) and I wish to convert it to usb; as far as I understand Your design is compatible with these keyboards, can You confirm it ?

Thanks
Luca

Hi Luca, did you get on Italy eBay ...

Thanks ))

Hi,
awsome work!

I'm in the process of restoring an IBM 3276 keyboard (wiki/File:3276.jpg) and I wish to convert it to usb; as far as I understand Your design is compatible with these keyboards, can You confirm it ?

Thanks
Luca

Hi,
I was asking myself the same question.
I've been given some 3276s to restore and some have one or two yellowed keycaps. I know how to retrobright but I'm afraid of bleaching the caps. Did anyone attempt a retrobright on those?
Luca

You made an awsome work!!

It's DSUB , it's not clear from the picture. It's the same cable You have, only a different brand. The interesting fact is that we have the part number!

Hello aestechnic,

You mentioned me , here I am!

Here are some pictures of my white Honeywell, for comparison. I think we have the same unit.

https://i.imgur.com/8Pt1EbZ.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Hsq0tBI.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Dwk7dfy.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/BGFSd7Q.jpg

https://i.imgur ...

Hi,

I was about to post the exact same info after having received a request for the Wyse Soarer connections in a comment (was that Yours??) about my Youtube video of a Wyse keyboard restoration..

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Here is the way I did it , that is Your very same.
Understanding which signal is ...

So, thank you lucar, springs WORK.


Thanks, I know they work but they are stiffer and less fluid then the original ones in my opinion. I consider these springs the best affordable alternative if you have nothing else. I also reproduced the metal stems and made some samples but covid-19 trapped ...

"The external coil springs are probably the last unsolved element at this time. "

Check Aliexpress, https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3296025 ... 4c4d90iFjC

Those are havier than the originals but better than none.

Luca

Unbelievable work!! I'm impressed, what about springs, did You find any clue about how to reproduce them?

Luca

Hello,

here is a roundup of 2019 CCC meetup in Italy, enjoy the video Luca