Keyboard with permanent keycaps

[Chrishas]

Hi all,

Does anyone know of keyboards with non-removable keycaps? Something that kids wouldn't be able to mess with. I know there are vandal-proof keyboards but they seem to be quite pricey, £180+, mainly because they're also weather proof and industrial. Also it doesn't need to be mechanical.

Thanks for any info,
Chris

[cookie]

Never heared of such a keyboard.
Concidering how hard it is to remove a keycap with bare hands, a drop of superglue should do the trick!
If you want to be on the safe side, I'd use two component epoxy glue.

You could buy a dell at102w (verry cheap), Alps keycaps are pure horror to remove, they naturally fit verry tight but with a drop of glue into the slider hole, it should be impossible to remove. They are also build like a tank and have a backplate, it should be impossible for a kid to rip out the caps.

[sth]

just get those encased rubber membrane keyboards. horrible to type on but fairly indestructible for kids. spill resistant and no keys to remove. dirt cheap, too.

[cookie]

You mean those:


If I were a kid I probably bite into them just to see whats inside

[andrewjoy]

i would say glue on an alps would be the way to go you would pull the slider out of the switch before you could remove the cap , alps are hard enough to get off on there own.

[bhtooefr]

Glue the switch case together, if you're doing Alps.

Don't ask me how I know this. OK, if you must... I once had a Alps switch where the keycap stayed in the slider so tightly that the slider pulled the case apart before it released the keycap.

That said, if I were gluing things... Plate mount Cherry MX. Much less risk of glue getting inside, much more surface area for the keycap to glue to.

[Daniel Beardsmore]

Poor Alps keyboard … if you have an Alps keyboard that you're going to tip glue into, do it a favour and give it to one of us instead.

Kids who are going to be that destructive are best off left with some rubbish rubber dome anyway.

Edit: I know! NMB dome with slider. Glue those.

[andrewjoy]

just glue some black alps together nobody cares about them

[Daniel Beardsmore]

Be careful — I don't know that pine black Alps was as bad.