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lucar wrote:

deeyay wrote:

snufflecat wrote: Nice work. How long did you leave it in the peroxide?

Around 12 hours =)

With UV , sunlight..?

Luca

UV!

snufflecat wrote: Nice work. How long did you leave it in the peroxide?

Around 12 hours =)

Hypersphere wrote: I have an NIB one, but yours looks better than mine after your retrobrite job!

Maybe it got a little bleached. But it will eventually fade back to more yellow after a few years like other stuff I have retrobrighted in the past even though it has been in the dark.

Good job. I suspect that this is one that I had seen for sale not too long ago. :)
Surreal to see Swedish legends ... on most of the keys, but not all.
Oh. Nice that it has convex modifier keys on the bottom row.
Yeah it's the latest one from Tradera. Action ended last week. I'm so glad I got it ...

So I recently got hold of a 28 year old Wang keyboard that was very dirty and the ABS plastic on the case had some fairly heavy yellowing going on. I really wanted to restore this beauty to its former self so this weekend I took the time to retrobright it. The before and after is pretty telling. I ...

I love my alps. But I will never ever lube them again. It changed my Orange alps characteristics so much it felt like a whole other switch. More like cram damped Alps both in feel and sound. So I wiped of the sliders again and put the housings in soap water and been happy ever since. Anywho at least ...

Whole my life up until about 5 years ago I've been typing using the "point finger waltz". I could touch type a little when going in school at around age 13. Problem was we did not have a computer at home then so I never typed and forgot all about it. I've always wanted to be able to touch type the ...

Added a short video on Youtube so people can hear how it sounds when typing on it =)

Yeah the board is totally awesome. My new favorite. Build quality is amazing and these switches are very nice and tactile. I type very accurately on this board for some reason it just suits my hands/fingers well and they dance across the board. This is a keeper for sure and will be used for a long ...

I won this on my local auction site the other day and recently got it home to me. It was very dirty when it arrived and had been in a cellar for a very long time prior me getting it. The seller had aquired it from a decedent estate and put it up for action.

I must say that this is probably the most ...

God I love the sound of Alps.

Looks pretty cool. I too hate the glossy plastic they come with and I painted mine too when I had one with hammer paint. If you could exchange the black keycaps with anyting else it would probably fit better as the beige and grey ones looks fine on it.

Yeah with shipping and tax it's around £200.

I think the threshold for such thing would be like 50-100 units so I find it highly unlikely to happen. Me myself prefer 45g.

Ha det!

Buckling Springs is heavier than MX Blues have that in mind. They are more tiresome to type on in the long run. I really don't like Buckling Springs that much because of the force needed. I really prefer MX Blues instead of Buckling Spring because of that even though the Buckling Spring has a much ...

Mmm have had my Novatouch for two days now and really liking it...

Epic thread.

Well, I don't mind Cherry switches. At least not some of them. Actually I mainly type on a MX Blue keyboard ( http://i60.tinypic.com/30jqzko.jpg ) and I really like it for typing. However I have found that keyboards with MX Blue can differ a lot in feeling. Some feel very good while others not as ...

-Func KB-460 (MX Blue)
-Project (Dell AT102W variant) (Damped White Alps)
-Matias Tactile Pro (Modified White Alps)
-Dell AT102W (Black Alps modified to White Alps but heavier)
-Chicony KB-5191 (MX Blue)
-Keytronic (Non Ergoforce variant)
-BTC 5349 (Foam and foil)
-Apple numeric keyboard

Keyboards ...

Oh, wow. That sounds like a good idea as well. Do the barrel springs have much of an affect on the actuation force or is it pretty much all the leaf spring? I looked at AT101W and AT102W keyboards and it looks like they come in a variety of different ALPs switches. Yours had black ALPs?

I think ...

I have a modified Matias Tactile Pro (non quiet) that I have exchanged the tactile metal leafs in and put in the ones from a Dell AT102W. Now the Matias keyboard is about as light as MX Red but it also has a very tiny tactile bump ala MX Brown. But feels lighter than MX Brown I must say. They feel ...

There's not much out there besides trying to collect vintage keyboards somehow to use the caps from them like I have done with my Func KB-460. They are not 100% white though but a lighter gray color. The spacebar is painted because it has a weird size. Anywho I have used keycaps from an old BTC 5349 ...

Finding keycaps that fit the stabilized keys is the bigger issue. I have a few Alps boards but none of them have stabs that fit the Dell. I'm sure they are out therer somewhere though if you look hard enough.

http://i60.tinypic.com/335cak0.jpg

A little while ago I wanted to do something with my Dell AT102W keyboard. For startes I really hated its Black Alps. I almost dislike them as much as most rubberdome keyboards.

So the first thing I did was to exchange its tactile metal leafs with the ones from ...

Hmm these switches must be several grams lighter to activate than my newer ones. The difference is really noticeable now when I go back to my newer ones. You can easlily feel that they are "heavier" and more stiff.

At the moment this is really my prefered board with MX Blues of the ones I have. The smoothness of the switches is really nice and they do feel a bit lighter than my other Blues so it feels like I can type a little bit faster on it also without as much effort in the finger movements.

Also I have a ...

Thanks.

Have you considered remapping Caps Lock to Backspace Colemak style?

Ah thank you I have done that before with another keyboard but kind of forgot about that whole idea. Might be a better solution in the long run. Thanks for reminding me. Though I must say I have adapted quite well to the ...

All my boards are ISO except one and that is the big ass enter one Muirium posted picture of up here and it's kind of a pain to adapt to some of the changes. The worst is the small backspace and also that the big ass enter takes away the * and ' key that is located next to the enter key on nordic ...

Here's a picture:

To the OP: yeah, Chicony boards used some okay switches, but their cases and keycaps are truly awful. I found with a KB-5181 (with clicky SMK switches) that when I replaced the keycaps with thick PBT caps and then pulled the whole keyboard out of its case and just set it on a wooden plank instead ...