Hi,

I just found these 2 auctions:
http://www.ebay.de/itm/120909035197 G80-1800 USB 7€
http://www.ebay.de/itm/120910285474 G80-1800 PS/2 3€

The seller says, he got a lot of them, even sells palett-wise.

I don't know, which MX switches they have, it just says "linear", even in the Cherry product information, so either Black or Red, but maybe you guys know it better.

They have blacks, and you can get them for 1€ per keyboard at cumb.de...

Oh, I didn't know that.
1€ for a board full of Blacks? That's insane.

yup it is. But you have to clean them pretty thoroughly. And you get free paperclips. Around 4 per keyboard...

This has been hinted at in the thread "Cheap linear Boards" in the keyboard forum.

Can't fint anything on google about #KRO on the G80-1800, is it 2KRO like the G80-11800?
And is the caps PBT or ABS or something else?

Would be a nice board to get just for the caps and switches if it has PBT caps.

Is the first one actully US ANSI or is he just using generic images?

i doubt that they are really ANSI
PS. they have 2kro

usually they have ISO DE PBT caps.
And 2kro as mbc said.

rindorbrot wrote:usually they have lasered ISO DE PBT caps.

FTFY

huttala wrote:Would be a nice board to get just for the caps and switches if it has PBT caps.

if you're in it for the caps, be very aware of the peculiarities of this board&layout that make the caps unfit for a simple transplant to a regular layout board.. see here; some caps smaller in width than a std layout, and some caps a different row profile than normal.

*edit to fix url

rindorbrot wrote:usually they have ISO DE PBT caps.
And 2kro as mbc said.

Not on my USB one, which has an L in the product code, so lasered caps.

well, Cherry Lasered caps are PBT, so everything is fine. And the right Shift is 1,75 wide, so it should fit an Noppoo Choc.

note...these have the THIN pbt caps.

Now I checked it, the caps are lasered PBT. Whatever, a fine Keyboard for work!

silv wrote:Whatever, a fine Keyboard for work!

That's exactly what I'm using my G80-1800 for
No more cheap Dell rubberdomes!

RC-1140 wrote:They have blacks, and you can get them for 1€ per keyboard at cumb.de...

This is good to know! If I ruin my 11800 with a mod I can just get a few more

Hmmm cumb rang a little bell in my head.. went through my mailarchive and found that I was trying to buy some of those boards more than a year ago. But they guy stopped responding to my emails. (was trying to get some shipping to the Netherlands)

domin8r wrote:But they guy stopped responding to my emails. (was trying to get some shipping to the Netherlands)

Then I'm guessing these are the shady guys with the van
Of which CeesA said 'too.much.work'.
Still quite nice prices, and you only need them to ship the right stuff once.

any positive feedback of cumb.de from somebody before I order there please?

Well...I can give some information on the company...they are in complete disarray. He had to close down two of his three shops in berlin, and had to change the location of his warehouse since they raised his rent tremendously. Funnily enough, the old warehouse burned to the ground a few weeks ago...it was a huge fire that caused them to close down Tegel airport for a day. Best bet to get one is to go via ebay I would say.

still that makes it sound like crumb needs the support, and at prices like these... double-win situation I'd say!

I was one of the first ppl to buy one of the keyboards and mine was in quite a good shape. only had to clean it just a bit (keys with handwarm water and board with a brush). so id say u can fully recommend those guys even tho , as ascaii says, they have had a hard time up there in berlin with their shops.

Thanks then, will place an order tomorrow.

I ordered 5 boards half a year ago, and after a few mails and calls (they mentioned being busy moving the warehouse already) a package arrived - and two months later, another package with the same content showed up on my doorstep, don't know who messed that up. Since dyeing the caps was so successful I recently ordered another batch which arrived promptly, so no issues here - the boards were a lot dirtier than the first time, but generally ok.
BTW, if anyone needs some in the Munich area, I'm willing to share some...

I bought one of the latter ones. Note that it has a strange hole in the case.
It took forever and some whining until they actually shipped it but then they threw in a second one for free so I'm content.

I bought one of them (with the said hole] a few years ago, they had a quite large shop not far away from me at that time.
They had dozens of these keyboards - all with doubleshot keycaps.
A pity I did not know anything about keycaps at that time

Icarium wrote: Note that it has a strange hole in the case.

kbdfr wrote:I bought one of them (with said hole)

Now you're making me curious, any SFW pics?

It's actually in this picture: http://www.ebay.de/itm/120910285474

You mean above the lock-leds? http://www.tusmi.de/ebay/Deutsche_Tastatur_Cherry.jpg
That indeed looks pretty weird...
How long ago was that for you Ica? Curious if *all* of them have that, and what the hell was the reason for it!

Uh...what exactly do you want to know?