Found two rare Cherry M8 covered and uncovered keyboard(Who can take)

[terrycherry]

Hope them have a good home! Maybe the good choice for the X'mas present for self.

Hirose Cherry M8
http://global.rakuten.com/en/store/vsho ... 2151-0802/

The uncovered version keyboard that I brought
http://www.plccenter.com/en-US/Buy/ZF%2 ... EN/G800298

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[Stabilized]

Wow those Japanese doubleshot caps!
A shame that they can't fit on Cherry MX boards or I might have been tempted

[Chyros]

A shame that they can't fit on Cherry MX boards

They don't? Oo

[Stabilized]

I was going by the seller's description, do you have a difference experience?

[Engicoder]

Generally most older cruciform mount keycaps do not fit. While some fit on the cherry mx stem, the keycap stem is too large in diameter to fit inside the MX switch when it is depressed.

[Chyros]

Generally most older cruciform mount keycaps do not fit. While some fit on the cherry mx stem, the keycap stem is too large in diameter to fit inside the MX switch when it is depressed.

It's a shame I'm not at home because I have an M8 switch so I could test it but as far as I recall M8 doesn't really use the typical vintage cross mounts that Futabas and SMKs used to use (neither of which are MX compatible). The cross mount on the M8 is actually quite small. I could be completely wrong of course but I'd have thought they were MX compatible tbh.

[richfiles]

My God, those are beautiful!
I absolutely adore the shape of those keys!
They look kinda low profile-ish, but they also look so retro!

[Stabilized]

Generally most older cruciform mount keycaps do not fit. While some fit on the cherry mx stem, the keycap stem is too large in diameter to fit inside the MX switch when it is depressed.

It's a shame I'm not at home because I have an M8 switch so I could test it but as far as I recall M8 doesn't really use the typical vintage cross mounts that Futabas and SMKs used to use (neither of which are MX compatible). The cross mount on the M8 is actually quite small. I could be completely wrong of course but I'd have thought they were MX compatible tbh.

From the description it looks like Cherry MX keycaps fit on the keyboard, but this is what the seller says about the keycaps being put on a Cherry MX board:

By the way General MX cherry so far tried the keytop for the switch is fitted now on photos. Could not the MX switch attached to opposite. It seems slightly different axis size.

or

ちなみにチェリーの一般的なMXスイッチ用のキートップが付けられるか試してみたところ、上の写真のように装着できました。反対にMXのキースイッチには装着することができませんでした。微妙に軸のサイズが異なるようです。

[Chyros]

Ah, so it's one-way compatible. Makes sense.