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ZedTheMan wrote: 11 Nov 2019, 05:28 This is why I will not replace the foam on my F122. It hasn't broken it and it still feels good enough, I'm not going to fuck with it after going through the whole replacement in an XT.

How did that go regarding the XT?

Wazrach wrote: 10 Nov 2019, 23:20 For reference, I sold the foam to the OP via Ebay because (surprise surprise) I simply had e-fucking-nough of trying to get a foam replacement to work out on an XT.

That is absolutely hilarious!

Model Fs are fickle beasts, and require a lot of fussy, tedious experimentation.

I have read dozens of these threads where people were impatient and say something like "I took it apart THREE TIMES and it still doesn't work properly!"

Personally, I have refurbished literally dozens of Model Fs ...

On one of my XTs, I never bothered to replace the foam. It feels even more crisper that before. Love it.


The reason why it seemed like a good idea with this one is because the existent foam was completely falling apart and leaving messy dark grey dust everywhere as well as dirtying hands which ...

I have had the misfortune of having to take my XT apart a couple times. Once when I spilled wine on it. :shock: Never again.

Have you opened a keyboard testing app to see if you are getting random keys firing? That may be an indication that some of the flippers are not set correctly, and that ...

I have purchased 2mm thick PVC foam from Ebay and attempted to put the keyboard back together after installing it.

The keyboard was very difficult to put back together and required multiple clamps as well as a bar clamp in order to slide the plates back in place.

The current problem is that the ...