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The V6 and Melodics make for a very interesting combination. The V6 having a case made of ABS instead of aluminium, maybe taking out the foam etc. would move the sound a bit closer to blue Alps boards.

Hi,

I’d like to test different Kailh BOX switches (provided I manage to get hold of some) in an actual keyboard. Right now I only have a tester with nine switches, which is far from keyboard reality. My idea is to take an MX board, get rid of the MXs and put in BOXs. I hope I don’t have to spend a ...

The FK-555 and the M were in different boxes, but the M was alone in its box, the FK-555 shared one with an FK-2000 (2002?) and an M0118.

The FK-555 was never retrobrighted, that’s for shure. There is no X-ray machine, and the FK-555 didn’t get more heat or UV than the other boards. It just never ...

Hi,

I just want to share an observation I made today. It’s about a 1987 FK-555, a 1994 Model M and an AEK2.

Some years ago the M hadn’t yellowed at all, the AEK2 only a little bit and the 555 a fair bit more. Now, the last three years or so the M and the 555 have been stowed inside two different ...

At 00:48, what types of Alps are those?

(in rows from left to right)
SKCL Green/Yellow/Lock
SKCM Brown/Green/?
SKCM Cream?/Orange/Salmon/Black/?
SKCM Cream damped/White damped
SKCM Blue/Amber?/White

Thanks both of you. Locking pins sounds good.

There is one downside to the HE switches: They use the rare earth element Neodymium, which to produce seems to be quite a dirty business.

I just kind of omnomed through this thread after I watched Chyros’ review. That really sounds like great news, wonder why I didn’t read about it before. I was planning on building a keyboard on my own with used Alps, but I hadn’t hall effect switches in mind (well, there were none, but I didn’t know ...

I've done this in the past. I used small needle-nose pliers to stretch the O-ring and slip it over the slider. It doesn't work if you try to do this Cherry-style by putting the O-ring on the keycap stem. This procedure sort of works. I did not like the feel at all and started using it only to ...

Guy in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wlgvgu3Jnc says he's putting o-rings on his Matias clicky switches...

Anyone done this? Sure, I've seen dampeners on the side of the sliders but never an o-ring--where would an o-ring go on an Alps-style slider?

Old post, but still: He’s doing ...