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I second the suggestion that a thorough cleaning and a bolt mod will likely solve your "feel" problems.

Do late model m's with a plastic barrel plate not feel worse than early m's? All the keys feel consistent its just consistently average. Compared to one from 1988 at my school all the keys ...

I second the suggestion that a thorough cleaning and a bolt mod will likely solve your "feel" problems.

Do late model m's with a plastic barrel plate not feel worse than early m's? All the keys feel consistent its just consistently average. Compared to one from 1988 at my school all the keys are ...

You should be able to grab a 7/32" deep socket on amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=7%2F32%22+deep+socket&crid=3APU6QCBIJZP1&sprefix=7%2F32+deep+socket+%2Caps%2C327&ref=nb_sb_noss_2

You may also want to look into bolt/screwing modding too if your having issues with your keys

i have the tools ...

ArtyomTheMetroHopper wrote: 07 Dec 2022, 15:21 Damn your lucky! You thinking of keeping the boards or perhaps selling one off?

i will not be selling them

my friend found these at her job in storage. She got them all for free ;)
they are all pretty late model ms, from 97,99,02 respectively. Because of that they don't feel too good so im thinking about swapping an older keyboard module into one of the industrial cases. Is this easy to do?
The two ...

I got this idea after seeing the vortex pc66, and noticing it is very similar in case design and size to the pingmaster.
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Basically my idea is to cut the plate of the pingmaster down to the main 65% section, put that in this case, and handwire a replacement ...

make ` ~ return


What? Do you have a picture? This makes no sense to me. :)

I hope im understanding what you mean properly, basically just the `~ key is where the enter key typically is on ANSI so my muscle memory was reaching for that key instead of enter. So i just remapped it to enter so ...

Ive dailied a f xt for about 3 years, and it was no issue. Simply bind backslash to windows, asterix or caps lock for function, make ` ~ return, and i type just like any ansi board

Taking apart my pingmaster thought you guys would like this pic

I am trying to make it so the dedicated greater than less than key is remapped to super, but when I check the scancodes all it is doing is pressing the comma or period key, and pressing shift. This makes me think its not possible to remap it? I am using a soarers converter and have never remapped ...

Are there any plans to close orders for these keyboards? I don't have the finances to get one right now but would hate if a couple months from now they are no longer available for purchase.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Honeywell-Micro-Switch-mechanical-keyboard-from-80-s/164107817764?hash=item2635969324:g:pU0AAOSwTrZeXaIZ


that is pretty neat, would be an awesome conversion job

does that use honeywell hall effect? I've been wanting to convert an old magnitic reed or hall effect or ...

JP! wrote: 27 Feb 2020, 15:16 https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Univac ... 1438.l2649

As someone who knows nothing about super old machines, is that possible to be converted? How old is it?

How much would a board with fugitsu magnetic reeds cost? I don't care what board just one not in trashed condition.

They ruined this keyboard with such high actuation a shame.

Did you just take apart the switch tops or did you desolder them?
Beside suspected coffee in this instance, old keyboards often have *lots* of rosin flux on the bottom, I've seen this on both AEK IIs and AT101s, wouldn't be surprised old Focus boards have the same.
Is this a single layer and ...

I just bought an Omnikey Ultra T and it was in way worse condition internally than I expected. The switches were pretty much unusable, but I cleaned those up and they feel pretty nice. I have nos ones coming in so I'm not too worried about them. What I am worried about is that I'm pretty sure coffee ...

I thought about it because I'm looking for a white alps board and that one is pretty clean, but I think I'd prefer to get something like an omnikey



Omnikeys are very good... Look for a good copy with Alps Pine white switches, the later models had Bamboo switches and I saw even one with ...

Polecat wrote: 08 Dec 2019, 07:05 Probably not a bad deal still. That one's from around 1990 or 1991, fairly early in the white Alps timeline.

I thought about it because I'm looking for a white alps board and that one is pretty clean, but I think I'd prefer to get something like an omnikey

Polecat wrote: 08 Dec 2019, 06:13 No pictures with a keycap off, but it's now listed as having "Alps SKCM White switches".

yea I messaged him and he said that he didn't realize it had white alps and updated the listing. Apparently someone else bought it before that and he canceled the order or something

Fair enough! All things considered, you're simply missing out on higher feet, terminal-style keycap legends that you could source elsewhere (a few of them are the same as battleship/battlecruiser keycaps, with battlecruisers currently decently priced around £69-89 here in the UK), and a built in ...

I guess I'll have to find a bigfoot case eventually. I don't think I could ever use it a daily driver and I can't spend full price for a novelty that I would need to spend more time on converting. So just using my old xt board seems perfect.

The seller of this keyboard claims that it has blue alps with no proof. Is there any way to tell if its white or blue?


I have over 300 Focus boards in my database, and by the serial number that one is well into white Alps territory. That isn't "proof", but it's very unlikely to have blue Alps ...

The seller of this keyboard claims that it has blue alps with no proof. Is there any way to tell if its white or blue?

I saw someone selling just the case of a bigfoot for whatever reason and it got me wondering if you could buy both cases and swap them around depending on what you wanted at the time

ppCircle wrote: 05 Dec 2019, 20:50 Well, i got today fk-747 with polish sub legends



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More photos: https://imgur.com/a/uxBlQ6n

Old focus boards look so good

How rare/expensive are focus fk 2001's in black? I think that they look absolutely amazing and I want one.


I made mine a few months back from a black FK-2002 and a beige FK-2001 with blue Alps switches:

https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=22072

I bought the black 2002 new almost ...

How rare/expensive are focus fk 2001's in black? I think that they look absolutely amazing and I want one.

if it's reliable and feels good then I don't see how a switch design could be flawed. SKCM does those two criteria pretty well imo.

How do zealios compare to alps tactitltiy and smoothness? I'm thinking about building a board and wanted to know if they would be disappointing compared to orange alps. Reddit seems to like them a lot but I feel like thats just compared to other mx style switches.