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Bright green IBM stabilizers
Posted: 07 Mar 2017, 22:00
by elecplus
I pulled the caps for an order; the buyer did not want the whole keyboard. I have not seen bright green stabilizers before!
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Posted: 07 Mar 2017, 23:08
by seebart
Just like this Greenock indy M that sold recently look:
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-Model-M-Ind ... 7675.l2557
Posted: 08 Mar 2017, 00:42
by fohat
I have a few bright green and bright blue ones.
Posted: 08 Mar 2017, 03:47
by Tuntematon
Hasn't sold, I just haven't relisted yet.
$80USD + shipping takes it, if anyone's interested
Posted: 08 Mar 2017, 05:44
by XMIT
(shrug) I always dismissed this as the factory just using up whatever spare plastic they had that day, I don't give too much thought to the color of the stabilizers. I guess the off white ones are the most "authentic"? I never see them, so I don't care too much, some collectors might.
Posted: 08 Mar 2017, 08:59
by seebart
Tuntematon wrote: ↑
Hasn't sold, I just haven't relisted yet.
$80USD + shipping takes it, if anyone's interested
$80USD is a fair price.
XMIT wrote: ↑(shrug) I always dismissed this as the factory just using up whatever spare plastic they had that day, I don't give too much thought to the color of the stabilizers. I guess the off white ones are the most "authentic"? I never see them, so I don't care too much, some collectors might.
Agreed, I just really cannot see any relevance in the color of these stabilizers. Reminds me of the rarish beige barrels.
Posted: 08 Mar 2017, 09:09
by Wodan
These colored stabilizer inserts have a very dangerous potential to trigger some peoples obsession ...
Quick, someone come up with STRIPED-GREEN inserts
Posted: 08 Mar 2017, 10:01
by seebart
Wodan wrote: ↑These colored stabilizer inserts have a very dangerous potential to trigger some peoples obsession ...
Quick, someone come up with STRIPED-GREEN inserts
Not until you got the lilac-purple ones!
Posted: 08 Mar 2017, 10:34
by andrewjoy
XMIT wrote: ↑(shrug) I always dismissed this as the factory just using up whatever spare plastic they had that day, I don't give too much thought to the color of the stabilizers. I guess the off white ones are the most "authentic"? I never see them, so I don't care too much, some collectors might.
i was under the impression there where two types ( vertical and horizontal), and the different colours denote that per board
Posted: 08 Mar 2017, 15:07
by fohat
andrewjoy wrote: ↑
i was under the impression there where two types ( vertical and horizontal), and the different colours denote that per board
That is the way that Unicomp sells them today: white = horizontal and black = vertical.
Posted: 09 Mar 2017, 17:45
by daedalus
The vertical and horizontal ones are not interchangeable - that was very much a lesson learned the hard way
Posted: 19 Mar 2017, 11:29
by Flammberger
daedalus wrote: ↑The vertical and horizontal ones are not interchangeable - that was very much a lesson learned the hard way
Hehe I recently repaired a M122 (fairly late one from 1997) with brocken plastic dots / messed up springs...
I had to rescrew the layers like 3 times, until I got everything working again.
It also came with green stabs for horizontal and white ones for vertical Keycaps. One earlier M I had once, used white and very light grey onces. I guess they switches to more colorful stbas for obvious reason.
