KAC-6162R with white Dai-Ichi CL-1145 found!

[lBlanc99]

So i found this keyboard on a local online marketplace. From the few pictures the seller gave me, at first i thought it was an unbranded keyboard with omron whites, so i bought them since they looked to be in nice condition and even has the dust cover. A nice addition to the collection.

Keyboard

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But when i open it up it was mostly some white dai-ichi cl-1145 switch!

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I looked it up on the wiki and there isn't a full keyboard found with this switch yet, and I seemed to found a new variant so i decided to post it here.

The keyboard itself is a standard (slightly)cheap keyboard with so-so thickness on the case and a thick metal plate. The keycaps uses double shot abs and uses standard alps stabs (except for the spacebar which uses costar stabs)

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Now for the switches, some of them are the white variant, but some of them are of a salmon colour. But when i open it up they were a gradient of white to salmon. I didn't notice a whole lot different from the whites, but I did notice a slightly deeper click and they are a very so slightly more tactile i think, but that might be placebo. The board has a random mix of them.

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Here are the insides of the switches

The stem

Has a gradient slider with white and salmon colour

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The internals

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The contacts

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The switches them selfs are quite smooth and has a slightly softer click, i like them.
Edit : forgot to mention that 3 switches were sticking. I think this was because of age / wear. On two of the stem cracked a bit because of the keycaps, making it bind on the upstoke. One of them had a slight bulge from the keycaps, making it also bind. The fix is just to glue it back and sand down a bit of the top housing near the crack/bend.

Some more photos of the pcb etc

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The board itself seems to be from 03-1990 from what i can tell from then warranty sticker on it

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Hopefully this will be useful for the wiki. If you need more hq pics i could probably retake some pictures.