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Ebay has probably the best coupon code I've ever seen that you can use on any one item >$50 for the next few hours for 20% off. You might be able to apply it to multiple items if used at checkout where there are multiple items in your "cart."

Full details here: https://pages.ebay.com/promo/2018 ...

The only one worth getting really is the SKCL Yellow.

Of the other two, one is the SKBM Yellow, which you might want to get just for collection purposes but otherwise is, like basically any SKBM switch, mediocre.

The other should be SKCM Dampened Cream (slider is the wrong shade to be undampened ...

I contacted KBDfans about reaching out to the guy and running a buy for these as well, but apparently they already tried and didn't have much luck. feelsbadman :<

That's not that much for that amount of machined aluminium.

It kind of is - it's 2500 for just the case, plus another 320 for a PCB. Even if one of us could grab it, this thing could pretty easily reach $500 shipped. For reference, you could get a TX1800/TXCP for less than that (and the quality ...

So I found these listings on taobao:

https://2.taobao.com/item.htm?id=552118592566
https://2.taobao.com/item.htm?id=550075421585

for what seems to be a pretty damn accurate looking aluminum, tenkeyless g80-3000 group buy being run through some sort of chat app (qq? wechat? not sure).

I messaged ...

One week ago, 23 May...

http://i.imgur.com/VYvBZ81.png


so close, yet so far.. :"""^) I really didn't think anybody else out there was searching through taobao as much as me, much less someone on this forum, but i guess I'll just have to be quicker next time lol

grats on the find dude! board ...

Mr.Nobody wrote:

Just bought this blue Alps board for RMB 30(5 US$ aprox.)

Just curious, do you remember when or what day you purchased the board?

Hey everyone,

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Are White ALPS comparable to MX Blues for instance? (I'm a bit of a newbie haha so I apologise in advance)

Thanks!

The way MX and alps switches click is entirely different, and IMO one isn't necessarily better than the other.

It's always difficult to compare these things ...

MrDuul wrote: Thinking about a CyberPunk restoration with LED lighting to boot.

Also wondering if the the manual compartment can be removed to give it a more modern feel.

I would like to mod a more slimmer bezel. Perhaps 3D print one.

hate to be that guy, but you're just playin right?

Beamspring!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-3278-CLICKY-VINTAGE-KEYBOARD-BEAM-SPRING-75KEY-KEYBOARD-RARE-COLLECTIBLE-/172678800155?hash=item283475631b:g:GK8AAOSwjL5ZG8HF



got it!

congrats dude! I was really debating whether or not $925 shipped to Canada was too much and slowly losing out against ...

What do you mean by hybrid blue/brown alps? Brown alps spring + blue alps everything else?

Also, did you find that when you moved the blue alps from whatever keeb they came on to your custom that the sound became higher pitched/more metallic? I don't know why, but every typing video with I've ...

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/311845101867

NIB SIIG MiniTouch with Monterey Blues, with 4 still available. Offered $75 and he accepted pretty quickly - you might be able to get em lower, but even at $75 I think it's pretty worth for anybody who likes compact layouts and wants to try out a nice clicky ...

If you can wait, Wingklip is making little two-tone 3D printed PS/2 => USB converter boxes currently that should be going up for sale relatively soon from the sounds of things. I think he said about $20AUD shipped (?) was what he was looking to sell them at.

If you're comfortable with soldering, I ...

Well it took a better part of a week but I managed to pretty much read all posts in this thread to get up to speed with ALPS. Thanks to everyone who was kind to share their knowledge.

Just wondering, since the tactile leaf and switch plate is a considerable factor in the weight of the switch, am I ...

Let us know what you think!

I have the opportunity to grab one, though it'd be like $220CAD shipped or so. On one hand, I'm tempted to for collection purposes + how rare they seem (at least sold separately from their intended system), but on the other hand I read a review on here the other day that ...

When will matias make SKCL/SKCM clones?! I want to get into matias switches, but I find it hard to since they are only making simplified alps clones >_< I can't justify buying the product when I know it's inferior to the real deal.

iirc all the alps tooling is gone/destroyed, so it'd be extremely ...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-Chicony-E8H5IKKB-5161-Blue-Alps-Vintage-CLICKY-Mechanical-Keyboard-AT-XT-/122429050216?hash=item1c81570d68:g:eEkAAOSwol5Y4dRK

$300 chicony blue alps board.

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4koma guys never fail to make me laugh.

Screw this Blue Alps business - We must all vaunt the ...

http://i.imgur.com/WosQOKl.png

I just want a split, smaller ergodox with less keys basically - atreus is kind of close, but not quite there. Currently enjoy my lets split the most.

Maybe also add the innermost column to each side for []{}() or something? Also, I only really found the two large ...

Do the BS style switches not sound so metallic/pingy in real life? I'm sure the Fs feel great, but not sure how used to the sound I could get based off the youtube videos. Only tried buckling springs at a meet so I didn't get a good idea of the sound due to music, but they did feel pretty good. Was ...

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/New-Vintage-ALPS-102050-00-Desktop-Glidepoint-Keypad-for-Windows-PC-Mac-Japan-/182511703930

Got this still-plastic-wrapped new alps numpad. Super nice design, and it's as far as we know the only known existing keyboard with SKFRAD switches, which'll be nice for epeen ...

Just curious, does this work as a PCB mount build? or is the plate required to secure the PCB to the case?

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/New-Vintage-ALPS-102050-00-Desktop-Glidepoint-Keypad-for-Windows-PC-Mac-Japan-/182511703930

Got this still-plastic-wrapped new alps numpad. Super nice design, and it's as far as we know the only known existing keyboard with SKFRAD switches, which'll be nice for epeen ...

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Yamaha-yis-603b- ... 2918808087

v nice caps, no clue what switches - maybe alps? Can't see clearly in the picture but the caps key looks like it has an alps style LED on it

Our very own chzel did a nice 3101 restoration:

https://deskthority.net/workshop-f7/ibm-3101-beamspring-keyboard-restoration-t12720.html?hilit=IBM%203101

I don't quite get why you all think MahaloMerky would find any more of these?

In the reddit thread he said they were cleaning out a really ...

I've never seen the Heathkit model HTX-10 here before that I can remember but that does not mean it's not possible to "teensy".

Isn't pretty much any semi-conventional keyboard possible to teensy, provided you have the patience/time to trace the PCB and stuff? Not sure how it gets when it comes ...

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Vintage-Heath-Co ... 2353527837

Kind of not worth I guess considering the pingmasters are still available, but IMO this is way more aesthetic. Should be green SKCC alps

Nice video! I always assumed the neon green alps were == brown alps, just with lighter weighting and rarer stem color based off the wiki description - do you find that there's a big difference in feel between the two as far as the shape/size of the tactile bump goes?

Also, any reason you consider ...

Only need 8 SKCM Brown now :)

For the rest I am offering the reward of 1 SKCL Striped Amber , yes you heard me correctly ;)

DONE!

Nice dude! If the 2nd videowriter board I bought had browns on it (goddamn you, Mitsumi :<) I definitely would've taken him up on that offer. Very worthwhile trade ...

How are these things fetching $1000? I know the old logo ones are rarer, but aren't these still some of the most mass produced Alps keyboards around? I really don't see why anybody would pay more than like $150 for one of these and that's if they REALLY badly wanted the caps..

I always thought it was because of the shape of the tactile leaf. The tactile leaf compresses as a result of pushing the slider down, then as the slider comes back up it wants to spring back open - as a result what you hear is the slider being pushed out of the way on the way back up.

I read ...