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Check out the Zenith ZKB2-AT. It will come with either linear green alps or linear yellow alps....both of which are very smooth. The throw is noticeably shorter than cherry mx switches, which I feel adds to the feeling of smoothness.

Jmneuv wrote:"The Wang", nice. Glad you found your stuff.
Are the caps DS?

Unfortunately no. They are printed.

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I won this board on ebay from one of my favorite sellers (he always has hard to find boards). Key feel is unique. Analogous to monterey blues, albeit a tad slower feeling. It has a deep click, but it ...

t!ng wrote:I love Dolch!

Woot....dolch is looking good!

The chicony turned out to be too much work...so I soldered the blue alps into my Omnikey 101.

Nice - well...gross...but nice work on getting some blue Alps :)
You should de-solder them for the Hyper Mini/Micro project - eventually they will do an Alps version. I suppose the caps are double-shot? Despite the yellowing on some and slight shininess, they actually look pretty good.

Yes, they ...

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I got this board yesterday. The case and keys are in atrocious condition. They will need some serious retrobrite sessions. All that board chow blew out of the keyboard easy enough. The ...

I was planning on swapping the switches in my Zenith ZKB2-AT for the clicky Matias switches. So how would you compare the clicky Matias switches to complicated white ALPs switches? Lighter, heavier, etc.?

This is lame...you better not be perma banned man.

Mrinterface wrote:Any update on this? The Tick077 is next......

The bag was shipped to the Tick. Tracking says it was delivered on Novemeber 24th. I PM'ed you the tracking link Mrinterface.

Excellent review!

I'm very glad you waited until you re-acquired your SGI board. The fact that the dampened Matias switches are lighter than the complicated dampened white alps in the SGI is intriguing. I loathe complicated clicky white alps because they are too heavy for my tastes, but we all ...

My review is below. I'm adding a linear yellow complicated alps switch to the bag since there aren't any yellow or green alps in the sampler bag. Please keep the linear yellow alps switch moving with the bag. I will put another item in the "suprise" pouch that the next person who receives the bag ...

I just received the CONUS switch try bag in the mail!

There are no linear yellow alps in the switch tester bag! I'm going to have to add a few to it.

I added 2 pics of an Old Dell Logo and an Old Dell with pink alps. Hope you guys don't mind.

um, can you please post the pics of the peroxide 'creme' you used? I gather it'd be more practical than submerging the whole case as I did, so if possible, I'd like to duplicate the procedure.
Sure, here's a link to the creme I used.

You have used the cream also for keycaps?
You have painted ...

Findecanor wrote:BTW, the Wiki page for the Dell AT101 is missing a picture of the Old Logo Dell AT101. *hint* *hint* *nudge* *nudge*

Noted...I just added two pictures of the Dell.

t!ng wrote:You used hair bleacher for the SGI ?

Yup. Turned out great right. $12 got me enough to do several keyboards.

nice results
AKIMbO, have you ever have mottled result from retrobrite? I gather that you completlely submerged the whole caps and casing as opposed to reapply the peroxide every ten minutes...?

I got mottled plastics from 40% peroxide after only a day recently (granted, it's tropical sunshine ...

Picked up a second SGI granite board (dampened white alps) and a rare-ish old logo Dell AT101 (salmon alps). Rip-o-metered the salmon alps board and I'm getting 65-70g on the board, the exception being the arrow key cluster (which registers uniformly at 75g).

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Mrinterface wrote:Why so many keys?

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I spooged.

I'm really interested in a further in depth comparison between the new Matias quiet pro switches and the SGI dampened cream alps. I already have an SGI with dampened cream alps and am planning on replacing all the switches in an old Zenith ZKB2-AT board with either the new Matias tactile or the new ...

Wcass, can we get an update...this thread has been a little silent lately. Did you get to look at DFJ's post? Are you still set on switching over to buckling spring over membrane?

I never noticed until now, but is the key above the enter in ANSI layout always the same colour as the alpha section? For some reason, I always though it was modifier coloured on all keyboards whenever there are two colours.

Yup...it's always alpha colored.

Here's my latest IBM acquisition ...

It worked! Thank you so much Soarer! Is there an easy way to completely go back to default (ie. rewrite the soarer converter so that all the changes I just programmed onto the converter are overwritten so F1 becomes F1 again and esc becomes esc again?)

I need some serious help with programming this teensy. If someone could give me the explain it to me like I'm 5 years old I would be forever grateful. Below are the steps I'm taking:

Write the cfg file (in my example I just want to switch the esc key with the F1 key). So my cfg file looks like this ...

Chiclet keys....oh boy.

I thought i did pretty good buying a beat up XT for $12.50 last week, but one in fairly good condition sold this morning for $9.50 (+$12 for shipping) on eBay.

The qualities of a switch -the pressure, tactility, post actuation, and release - some of these might be quantifiable, but one's ...

FYI, the end actually is in sight. I just made a wire transfer of over $10K USD to Signature Plastics yesterday. If you wanted the keys when you ordered them you're going to hate it when they come in and you see how awesome they are and you HAD them and gave them up.
7bit or someone else with more ...

I'm getting pretty excited about this. I hope the PCB/switch issue can get resolved...that seems to be the biggest hurdle with this project.

Those iron man keycaps are amazing. First really 3d keycaps I've seen.