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Hey.

Good luck. Thanks for all the work you've done.

I am always wary of painted plastic as in some case the paint comes off rather too easily

Never underestimate the usefulness of soaking if you don't want to do too much scrubbing.



The Model F cases have a shiny white inner core of plastic with another, off-white top coat that includes ...

Oh my god. That's horrible.

I never got to know him that well. May he rest in peace.

He was a cool dude, at least from my conversations with him.

quick question: how thick are the caps? Most focuses that I have seen use pretty thin caps with a homing bar, similar to Tai Hao, but not exactly. These caps have a homing nipple like Alps Electric made caps.

Blaise170 wrote: 15 Nov 2019, 16:08 I'm alive. Indeed, 2019 is probably the worst year I've ever experienced. But I hope to start being active around here again. Anyone who has needed me in the meantime... Sorry for the delays.

Glad to hear that you're back! Hope 2020 will be a better year for you.

depletedvespene wrote: 23 Oct 2019, 03:38

Also, the R3 key to accompany the vertical Enter should be \|, not #~.

No, not really.

I want to use this keyboard with my modern pc and it has some weird connector ive never seen...need to know how to get it converted to ps2 so I can use a ps2 to usb converter and use it with my pc


Okay. So that's not PS/2. It's probably a weird, proprietary protocol. Your best bet to get it ...

Just thought this post by Jacobolus deserves a repost. Three years ago and basically 100% correct on every point.


At the very least it will be an amusing, if cringeworthy at times, presidency.

“Amusing” in the same way it’s “amusing” when your baby just crawled out the window and is ...

For what board? And what exactly are you lubing? Do you mean the stabilizers? For a more expensive, but better option, I would say some 205g0. If you want something cheaper, dielectric grease should work well.

Elrick wrote: 17 Oct 2019, 03:16

cookie wrote: 16 Oct 2019, 20:15 Let's face it, you can't go wrong with an HHKB, be it pro1 2 or BT, they are all solid choices.

Only if it could be re-designed for 104 keys, normal-sized instead.

Now that would be something......

Then buy a realforce.

Oh man. This looks nice. Gonna try and build one. oh MAN this looks nice.

Fascinating! I haven't ever seen a 5160XT in the west, only on taobao. And that JX keyboard is quite the lucky find as well. Nice job!

PMing

I use an MX Ergo, and the button weighting is amazing. I can use that mouse all day. I would stay away from the Elecom Deft for CAD, as the middle click button is about as heavy as a brick. It's absurd and completely unusable.

You can replace this with the G80 chili pcb.



I personally would not recommend doing so, if you want to use switches made by Cherry. The holes for the PCB mount pins are much too big to be used with cherry switches, so they will immediately fall out. :cry:

If you want to use a Chili pcb ...

ZedTheMan wrote: 27 Sep 2019, 06:12 Hang on a moment, are those cherry Dyesub caps?

If so, wow, those are nice.
I don't have any help for getting it working though, sorry.

I would say that they are not, judging from the font. Olivetti was known to have used someone else for their dyesubbing at one point.

Have you tried using QMK? Their pins are slightly different.

https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/tre ... m_terminal

PMing

https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1JJkvcfBj_uVjSZFpq6A0SXXaM/TAIWAN-mechanical-push-button-switch-Replace-of-ALPS-keyboard-switch-microswitch-2-foot-2pin-grey.jpg


What are these?
They look like blue Alps to me, but then they don't. I'm no expert on identifying different Alps switches, but the ...

lewinm wrote: 22 Sep 2019, 21:56 Hello, it's my first post on this forum. I'm interested if any of you every heard of keyboard:

dtk spk-102a
fcc F825K4SPK102A

Could you provide info about switches for such keyboard?

I googled it and I couldn't find any information about this specific model.

Do you have a photo of the keyboard?

The first one looks like SMK Vintage linear. I know I have seen the second one somewhere…

Are SMK Vintage switches supposed to be even remotely smooth? These aren't in any event, and the build quality (plastic used in the cross) looks lower than on pics of SMK Vintage switches.

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Took ...

Hi there - new here but very much bitten by the bug...

Picked up these two recently, expecting to easily be able to identify them, but neither has any identifying marks I can find. Both seem pretty CP/M-ish. The first has incredible thick ABS keycaps, but other than that feels very cheap & rough ...

wiki/Philips_torsion_spring

there doesn't appear to be any images, but the description matches.

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=5167&start=

You know, that mount looks almost something like this. Let me do a bit more research...

The first one looks like SMK Vintage linear. I know I have seen the second one somewhere…

Well, you're gonna have to replace the switchplates. Maybe open them up and spray them with contact cleaner? If that doesn't work, you're gonna need to replace the switchplate.

Also: changing the switchplate shouldn't really change the feel of the switch?

Keybug wrote: 12 Sep 2019, 13:24 Yes, Rafi-made for sure!

Myoth: I actually found an NMB board with space invaders in a practically identical case. What made you assume it's sliders-over-dome?

The caps, probably. The profile is very different for SI.

Okay, that's not a ps/2 keyboard.

See that SGI copyright? That means its an SGI protocol, which means…


You're screwed unless you can find the documentation on the protocol and program your own converter.

User101 wrote: 04 Sep 2019, 17:05

SantiGo wrote: 04 Sep 2019, 13:46

Redmaus wrote: 04 Sep 2019, 00:54

Do you mean for model F's?

yep me need for my f122 and for xt ...

Dude only have AT foam... if you want f122 foam I think ellipse sell some?

I would be interested in purchasing some of the AT foam. My AT was in REALLY bad shape.

That would be really cool having a din port on modern Pc's. I use an external soarers converter that I got from Orihalcon that takes the cable from 5 pin DIN to USB + gives me custom key mapping.


Yup, I have the same thing for my F122. The only way I can think of something like that being ...