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It's my elder brother who just acquired a soldering station for some of his videoconsoles/electronics to solder. I haven't had the chance of going to his home lately. When I do I'll ask him about the soldering and see if it's a good one (at least I know it was like 100$+ so can't be a cheap one). On...

Oof i would just get some new alps to be honest it's to hard to get them back into the right position and it will be inconsistent if that happened to the other switches.You could get some black alps and linear those they are better then the most available MX linears. Hmm ok, when I get a wire pulle...

Unfortunately my keycap puller died, for being a cheapo one, so won't be showing images soon, cause can't pull the keys out w/o risking the stems. Also won't be needed to explain myself. The contact leaves are bended or, beter said, twisted. The piece of metal isn't aligned with the slots found in u...

Apart from being my first time assemblig/dissasembling Alps style switches, I can't put together upper and down housing, with the alligned slots, I believed mostly due to being first time. Maybe contact leaves are bended too much? Only one side of the housing will close and where the contact leaves ...

Also got the FK-2001 way back, disassembled the switches and put every part through the ultrasonic cleaner process. One thing is for certain, it was very hard for me to put the switches back into place and had to desolder them and that still took me a while, to the point where I ended up salvaging ...

Hello there! I have a Focus FK-2001 I found in a thrift store time ago, with these switches. The case is yellowed (more grey than yellow though), the switches feel from okay to awful scratchy accros the keyboard, and the keycaps seem to be ok and seem like pad printed (I can see the surface of lette...