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Can you pull the caps and show a picture of the inside?seebart wrote: ↑The "yellowing" issue on Beamspring keycaps is another one of our unsolved topics. Quite a few people here argue that it does not exist. I say it does, but it seems rather random. Look at the "Ü" key on my 3278 vs. the rest of the keycaps:
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I know what you're getting at, but I don't believe that IBM used yellowish keycaps to beginn with. And why only that one key?Slom wrote: ↑Can you pull the caps and show a picture of the inside?seebart wrote: ↑The "yellowing" issue on Beamspring keycaps is another one of our unsolved topics. Quite a few people here argue that it does not exist. I say it does, but it seems rather random. Look at the "Ü" key on my 3278 vs. the rest of the keycaps:
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Because they certainly did for legends ...seebart wrote: ↑I know what you're getting at, but I don't believe that IBM used yellowish keycaps to beginn with. And why only that one key?Slom wrote: ↑Can you pull the caps and show a picture of the inside?seebart wrote: ↑The "yellowing" issue on Beamspring keycaps is another one of our unsolved topics. Quite a few people here argue that it does not exist. I say it does, but it seems rather random. Look at the "Ü" key on my 3278 vs. the rest of the keycaps:
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I've seen that picture and I don't believe that's significant in any way. I really don't believe IBM of all companies would have shipped keyboards with randomly yellowish keycaps. What I do believe is that different keycaps have a different compositions of plastics that then yellowed over time.Slom wrote: ↑Because they certainly did for legends ...[/img]
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I'm mostly interested in whether the yellow(ed) ones use a different mold. They consistently do on my keyboard.seebart wrote: ↑I've seen that picture and I don't believe that's significant in any way. I really don't believe IBM of all companies would have shipped keyboards with randomly yellowish keycaps. What I do believe is that different keycaps have a different compositions of plastics that then yellowed over time.Slom wrote: ↑Because they certainly did for legends ...[/img]
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I understand what your saying, I still don't believe those were originally yellowed. This in fact proves it must be a different mold with a different composition.Slom wrote: ↑I'm mostly interested in whether the yellow(ed) ones use a different mold. They consistently do on my keyboard.seebart wrote: ↑I've seen that picture and I don't believe that's significant in any way. I really don't believe IBM of all companies would have shipped keyboards with randomly yellowish keycaps. What I do believe is that different keycaps have a different compositions of plastics that then yellowed over time.Slom wrote: ↑Because they certainly did for legends ...[/img]
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Here are some pics from one of the badly yellowed ones: http://imgur.com/a/jm1bB
The white balance is a little off but you get the idea.
The white balance is a little off but you get the idea.
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Thankspansku wrote: ↑Here are some pics from one of the badly yellowed ones: http://imgur.com/a/jm1bB
The white balance is a little off but you get the idea.
And now for something completely different ... typing on this right now, painfully slow
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Interesting, thanks for those pictures. From what I can tell your "P" key does not have that yellowish mold that we saw on Slom's pictures. It is a key with the lighter mold though.pansku wrote: ↑Here are some pics from one of the badly yellowed ones: http://imgur.com/a/jm1bB
The white balance is a little off but you get the idea.
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KBD75+GMK Honeywell
FC980M w/ GMK Honeywell
FC980M w/ GMK Honeywell
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Hi, it's-a me, kbdfr.
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Ah, I just love pictures of SSKs. It's still one or maybe the best looking board ever made. The proportions are perfect. Looks good on every desk. Congratz to that nice board.
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Did you just replaced the Alphas with mx sliders?Wodan wrote:Finally "novatouched" my HHKB JP Type-S
Some pics from the process:
http://imgur.com/a/I0hVU
or the whole board (as that is a bit harder)