deskthority

I'm reusing my old Cherry caps on a new keyboard. Not only was the old keyboard winkeyless, it had "row A" profile modifiers. I'm going to use these caps on a Phantom board, so I'm looking for 1u win keys...

I guess I could get away with finding another numpad '.' key, or another bottom row arrow key, but it seems a bit naff. Or I could replace the entire bottom row, but that would be sad, too. I think I'd be happy enough with an inexact fit, as long as it's lower than the other modifiers and don't get in the way - win keys aren't proper modifiers anyway.

The wiki suggests Signature Plastics DCS row 4 might do the trick. Does that sound plausible? Anyone else had experience doing this? Cheers.

If you get a G80-1800 with winkeys, they have all 1U mods so that might help:



I'm not sure if the new winkey-ed ones came with nice caps, though, as mine are lasered...

The windows-specific keys (super, menu) on these keyboards are also pad-printed AFAIK, so maybe a naff numpad dot or blanks would be better!

Edit: Actually, one more thing! The MY version (MY7000 afaik) had a black version with doubleshots and I'm pretty sure that cream versions exist too.

Yeah, a little bit after posting I stumbled across the 1u mod Cherry win keys. Getting a whole keyboard just for a couple of keycaps seems excessive, but perhaps normal behaviour for this place.

sgf wrote:I'm reusing my old Cherry caps on a new keyboard. Not only was the old keyboard winkeyless, it had "row A" profile modifiers. I'm going to use these caps on a Phantom board, so I'm looking for 1u win keys...

I have Cherry row A 1.5 modifiers on my Phantom, with 1u arrow keys in-between them.

DCS profile is lower but has the same slope. Tsangan kits have been made in DCS profile with doubleshot legends, and even Cherry-replica fonts. If I were you and had doubleshot keys, I would replace the entire row with keys from a Tsangan kit.

scottc wrote:The windows-specific keys (super, menu) on these keyboards [G80-1800] are also pad-printed AFAIK, so maybe a naff numpad dot or blanks would be better!

The 1u modifier keys should be lasered if the other keys are lasered, pad-printed if the other keys are doubleshot. All of them are in row B profile like the ZXCVB row.

I can't think of any Cherry keyboards that have blank row A 1x1, but you can find them on some models of Laser brand keyboards with SMK switches. While they aren't Cherry keys they are an exact match in every way except the font used on them.
If you don't mind pad print and a different colorway you can get some Cherry A profile 1x1 Windows keys off of an Alcatel MMK.

sgf wrote:Getting a whole keyboard just for a couple of keycaps seems excessive, but perhaps normal behaviour for this place.

There are variants that used the Cherry MY switches with the layout that has the 1U modifiers. I've bought Cherry MY 7000 keyboards from eBay for less than $15 USD each. The MY stems are MX compatible.

Thanks for the info and ideas, everyone, plenty of stuff to go on now. Cheers!

If you find too many of them, let me know I am looking for four 1u row A keys as well, at the moment I am using the bottom row of the arrow cluster as a substitute...