Post your keyboard/keycaps!

[Prelim]

ahh, that looks also good... I'll paint my black top-case to white instead

[Pompom58]

Good idea

[photekq]

That looks lovely pompom! Congrats Did you mod the switches?

[chanlol]

[Pompom58]

That looks lovely pompom! Congrats Did you mod the switches?

Not yet, but probably vintage blacks with a Leeku PCB in the future!

THAT is a lovely keyboard chanlol, it looks like the keyboard of my dreams!!!

[jou]

Finished this in the weekend: my first 60%

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[wlhlm]

Alps 60%? Nice!

Did you build it using Hasu's PCB?

[jou]

Yep, it's Hasu's PCB with the plate from a Dell AT101 where I enlarged the backspace and right shift mounting holes to fit the additional keys.

[HzFaq]

Great looking board. Exactly what I'm planning on doing with mine, only ISO.

[DanielT]

Nice board I see some Dell caps there like on my board. It's a very powerful board

[jou]

It's a true frankenboard

- Plate, modifiers & space bar from an AT101
- Command (right shift) & arrow down (FN) key from a M0118
- Alpha keys from an Acer rubber dome
- Switches from an AEK2

[jou]

And if someone's wondering about the raised "Application" key: That's the "FN lock" key with a locking switch underneath for when I need arrows or F1-F12 for an extended period, e.g. going through emails or sessions in the debugger

[DanielT]

I have also used the plate off a Dell but even if the short shift and pinky Fn are something I love in all my other 60%'s I just couldn't bear the thought of having weird caps on the keyboard, my OCD needs a clean look I envy you for your courage

[jou]

I need both Esc and backtick on a regular basis, so putting either of them in a layer wasn't really an option for me… So I thought if I need to modify the plate anyways, I might as well try this pinky Fn thing

After a day of use, I found the off profile Command key annoying enough that I'm now using a 1.5U cap for right shift until I can find a 1.75U one…

[Madhias]

Round 5 caps and a Bro Caps Zombro!

[snoopy]

perfect match concerning colors!

[Madhias]

Yep, black & red and white! Height is also OK, but would not use on this position...

[JustLiQuiD]

Deep Space @JD-40

thanks again pasph

portable setup (to do: shorten cable and sleeving)

[DanielT]

Very nice ! What kind of cable/adaptor have you used for the keyboard? I'm interested in doing the same thing.

[JustLiQuiD]

Thanks. Currently i'm using the Apple Lightning to usb adapter and some standard mini usb to usb cable.

[chanlol]

TX1800& enjoyPBT dye sub

[CRi]

I just bought a Triumph Adler Gabriele 7700L typewriter to scavenge the keycaps.
It was on sale near my home, I bought it for 15€

They're AZERTY layout from Belgium which is what I use daily... but not all key match the actual BE layout
I tried to convert to QWERTY but then I have troubles when I get back to AZERTY
But finding a ISO FR-BE set seem very hard...

The typewriter:

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A free MX black inside

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I disassembled the key caps:

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And temporarily mounted them on a cheap G80-8200LPDDE that I have:

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They need some cleaning though, when I'll have a bit of time.
I plan to mount them on the TKL I'm trying to build...

What do you think, is this an interesting find?
I found some more on local auction sites, if someone wants a set

[gogusrl]

I want a QWERTY set. All I can find around here are QWERTZ.

[Ray]

The only thing I don't like about my TA set is the absense of homing indicators. But I like the looks.

[seebart]

Nice TA set CRi! You cannot do better than that for €15. My newish Topre toy:

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[Khers]

Padprint? Do all 660C have the capacitance formula on the case? Slightly nerdy, I like it!

[Madhias]

Tad Williams' books have a perfect height for repairing Model Ms (my wooden construction is not here, as always: the tools I need are not were I need them)! Anybody read Tad Williams? And not only Tolkien?



I bought a full sized Model M found at a local craig list, in very good condition, almost no rivets broken (I counted only two, and the rest could not break off easily), German language, for my fathers birthday, I hope he likes it. I know that chances are low he will actually use it, but at work he could type on it just for a day as a show-off for the colleagues - "hey, this guy is bad-ass typing on this clunky old keyboard". He is journalist, and we always had a lot of typewriters at home.

A good backpack is the one were a full sized Model M fits perfect inside:

[Prelim]

great model M sleeve

[yobinad]

Update

[Prelim]