Italian beamspring 5251

derzemel · 29 Mar 2016, 20:03

Just received this beauty.

I am very excited

This is a nice ending to what has been a very shitty day.

I will post more images in this thread when I will start to clean it

bricomaz · 29 Mar 2016, 20:09

Very nice indeed

I imagine pressing the "RICH AIUTO" (maybe "Richiedi Aiuto" == "Call for Help") and suddenly have a SWAT team entering the window!!

Redmaus · 29 Mar 2016, 20:37

Very nice, especially since it has all the caps. I like the color scheme very much. Too bad the insert is gone. Maybe you could make your own custom one!

Scottex · 29 Mar 2016, 21:55

wow, really nice
how did you find it?
expecting more photos

seebart · 29 Mar 2016, 21:58

Very nice derzemel, looking foreward to more pictures!

Chyros · 29 Mar 2016, 23:10

Ah, a beamspring, my next big hurdle xD . Very nice find indeed, congrats!

seebart · 29 Mar 2016, 23:25

Chyros wrote: Ah, a beamspring, my next big hurdle xD . Very nice find indeed, congrats!

Of course you will have to do a two hour special review on it with all kinds of scientific tests etc.

Just cut the intro this time.

derzemel · 30 Mar 2016, 09:58

bricomaz wrote: Very nice indeed

I imagine pressing the "RICH AIUTO" (maybe "Richiedi Aiuto" == "Call for Help") and suddenly have a SWAT team entering the window!!

Yes, a Carabinieri team together with a Strade Sicure team (they were all over the place in Rome)

Redmaus wrote: Very nice, especially since it has all the caps. I like the color scheme very much. Too bad the insert is gone. Maybe you could make your own custom one!

Insert? what insert? Insert what... where?

Scottex wrote: wow, really nice
how did you find it?
expecting more photos

An friend of my dad had the complete working Workstation and he wanted 250Eur for it. After some negociating he sold the keyboard only for 70Eur (think it is a good price).

Chyros wrote: Ah, a beamspring, my next big hurdle xD . Very nice find indeed, congrats!

Thank you!

I had an ideea... what if I am going to to try and make a smaller custom case for it. Maybe out of some hard wood, like oak... hmmm... need to investigate

Scottex · 30 Mar 2016, 10:19

70€ is a very good price
even 125€ would have been a very good price
congrats on the deal of your life (regarding keyboards

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photekq · 30 Mar 2016, 16:48

Great find derzemel! How do you like the switches?

derzemel · 30 Mar 2016, 17:42

photekq wrote: Great find derzemel! How do you like the switches?

Thank you!
The switches are not as heavy as I expected and they have the best click I have ever heard, even better than the Model F AT.
I absolutely love the keycaps on it and I think that they are the most comfortable on the fingers (better than GMK). I think I should get some round 5 keycaps

derzemel · 30 Mar 2016, 17:52

Scottex wrote: 70€ is a very good price
even 125€ would have been a very good price
congrats on the deal of your life (regarding keyboards )

Yes, it was a great deal.
Now I just need to find great deals for the following: IBM 3279 Beamspring, a Cherry mx5000 + the 5700 numpad, G80-3700 numpad, an SSK, a Zenith ZKB-2, an IBM JX-JW 6343690 and one or 2 aluminium Korean Custom Keyboards

Edit: also a 35g Topre keyboard and a Leopold FC660C