deskthority

mode1ace please send me another email as I don't have your user name in the order database. Some of my email replies (and shipping confirmation emails!) are ending up in junk folders. I've sent another, I put my DT username in the email, iirc when I bought it I put my geekhack username "mode" which...

Is there a backlog for getting support on a delivered keyboard? I emailed a week ago but have not received a reply, I just need single replacement key as it arrived damaged.

the_ambyguous wrote: ↑

29 May 2022, 05:52

holy crap, this looks awesome! ive never seen canon caps used like this before, covering a whole board and and using the flat caps. is this a custom pcb?

Yup.

I have a lot of excellent mostly alps keyboards but this is above and beyond all the rest. I'm not sure I'll ever have a nicer keyboard.

what mount? MX or alps

No, not at all. Just get a rubber dome bro.

Yes, it's done by moving the rj9 port from the original pcb to this, then soldering a snipped micro usb cable from the pro micro to the pcb.

You can crimp an rj9 port onto most usb cables.

I bid, but then withdrew. cba with the silent auction nonsense. Just put them on ebay auctions mate.

Just finished putting together my sasol 5203 waxboiled M0110 and it came out great!

sasol 5203 seems to work much better than the tealights I have, I strongly recommend everyone just get that.

No all newly fabricated, the cad exists, I just don't have it.

SK-8K wrote: ↑

27 Oct 2021, 20:18

Nice, do you have plate and PCB files available?

No.

nice work!

skfl are underrated, they’re nice when in good condition.

https://deskthority.net/download/file.php?id=71493 So I got my alps build together. Please do consider posting CAD to help people do their own PCBs and plates, just where the mounting holes are relative to the key blocks would be immensely helpful, it took us a couple of revisions to get a pcb to f...

My work in progress.

SKCM orange, canon keycaps, and the NCR80 case.

I literally cringed when I saw you bring out that metal strainer. Please use plastic. Plastic strainers and colanders are really cheap. Why? I've used a metal strainer for caps and switchparts for years, never had an issue with scratching. Metal isn't inherently scratchy unless you force an edge on...

Nice, my M0110B is ready!

hellothere wrote: ↑

22 Oct 2021, 19:34

I've been meaning to ask, but keep forgetting to ask, if lubricating springs for any kind of switch you can open is a good idea.

Depends how you feel about ping, lubing springs does reduce ping. I like a bit of ping, so it's not a good idea for me, but I understand why people do it.

Eurobeat is unironically good.

He made an excellent video where he really gave it his best for what anyone with a basic intelligence can easily figure out doesn't work. He is a chemist who knows organic chemistry much better than the folks criticizing him. tl;dr re the rest of your post, but jeeze, you sure do love jerking him o...

Not really after an argument over such a petty issue, if you want to be anxious about labelling enforcement that's up to you, don't import one.

I still think you radically overestimate the degree to which customs agents give a crap about the small stuff.

I don't understand losing any sleep over it, as a a buyer it's not your risk. […] It is definitely your risk if you import (that's what you do when you buy from a foreign country not party to a common market scheme your country belongs to) electrical devices showing fake security labels. At least t...

I don't understand losing any sleep over it, as a a buyer it's not your risk. I highly doubt NCR gives a crap about small runs of keyboard replicas commissioned and sold from china. It'd be quite futile to try and enforce their trademark, just search taobao for some popular trademarks and you'll fin...

Yeah, just rub a candle on it.

I’d agree that wax gets you to 9/10 not 10/10. Just thats good enough for me. I want a method to get back to 9/10 that I can repeat every few years.

So I'm wondering, surely it's not necessary for the water to be boiling, right? It's about delivering some heat, enough to clean the dirt off and melt the wax. So for the ABS housings, anything under 100C should be ok? (iirc that's when it starts warping?) So maybe a sous vide heater, set to like 7...

That’s the key, encouraging others to try and experiment

i’ve got 300 of the finest rekt taobao blues coming my way, so I’m going to see how this method fares at scale.

it’s a shame I have no NOS blues, but if they come out better than my NOS white then that’s a win

I really love how this guy hadn't read this thread, just noticed that the original lube seemed waxy, so tried rubbing a candle on it.

Amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXnfZp1cqUM This guy tried wax first. I saw him talk about it on discord and just gave it a go, and it spread from there to various people who were already boiling switches and then combined the methods.

NeK wrote: ↑

25 Aug 2021, 21:00

mode1ace wrote: ↑

25 Aug 2021, 20:54

FWIW, I do have NOS switches, green, white and orange.

Good. I believe you. Did you try only the wax-boil step? If not please do.

yes I did, it embedded dirt in the layer of wax.


It was ok, but, not amazing. I reboiled, rewaxed and then it was good.

NeK wrote: ↑

25 Aug 2021, 20:59

This exactly.
I'm actually pretty happy to hear of this boiling technique. However I do want to understand it more in detail and also some things are not really making sense to me, so I point them out.

Try it for yourself then.