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Just wanted to quickly ask if anyone knows what sort of springs I can use to replace the coils that help return the key after being pressed down. The ones I have are in terrible condition and the only replacement parts I can find were a ridiculous set of 90 gold plated springs on ebay for £100 with ...

Slom wrote: ↑

23 Feb 2023, 09:04

do we have someone around who knows how to repair keyboards?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/325536976289

Some Model M's are not too difficult to do, but the shipping displayed for me is "ouch" territory

Yep, you heard right. Bounty Planning on getting one last board before leaving the hobby for sometime. I am currently searching for an Accom Axial keyboard but I have not had any success in buying, let alone finding, one since last July. So I am making a listing here to see if someone has one they a...

As someone who as used the model m, model f and beamspring I have to say the model f by far

You edited your first post to obliterate sold items. The result […] is a goofy hybrid […] I have to side with Muirium here. There's no way to actually read this thread now or even know what it was about in the beginning. That makes all the posts which follow worthless. Why not start a new thread to...

I have sent a message to the seller to see what can be done with shipping. I doubt I will be able to get hold of the item but this would be my magnum opus if its viable

sell my whole keyboard collection Ebay calculates shipping at $377 to my location and that is not even all the way across the US from the West Coast. Across the pond from Oregon it would have to be a lot more. It mentions "flexible disk" and there appears to be an oblong door on the left side with ...

I may actually try and sell my whole keyboard collection to just get my hand on one of these

https://www.ebay.com/itm/274630046752 If I had 2k I would buy this in a heartbeat. If anyone wants the only keyboard to be rated as "nuclear proof", here's your chance. Capture.PNG Heres a manual for more info: https://librascopememories.com/Librascope_Memories/Product_Literature_files/Army%20TCT%20...

Its not really privileged information. Some people have contacts in state/public funded recycling centers that give them tip offs on any old electronical goods or allow them to visit and rummage through what they have recently taken in from disposals/collections. I usually see people with the most s...

Edit: Also offering a set of grey IBM Selectric keycaps since some keycaps stems have been broken (only the blank and macro keys, not on the main 60% area) Not sure If it would interest you but I do have a fairly rare IBM 5382 module with selectric grey and black keycaps. Also have an Xwhatsit cont...

Hot diggidy damn

Talking model F btw, i noticed that the spring buckles when not fully bottomed Ahhhh my apologies, I assumed that you meant Model M's! :lol: Too used to hearing people say capacitive buckling spring for F's instead of just buckling spring that I forget its interchangeable. There are slight differen...

Damn, if I hadn't bought my 5382 I would have probably gone for this. Why are you selling it off?

This sounds a sterling project. Good luck! The flippers will need to be conductive for capsense to work. Is that something you can do with the print material itself? Thanks! As far as I am aware you can get conductive filament for FDM printers, even metal filament that you can heat treat and polish...

This is actually a pretty interesting question and curious to see where it goes. Problem is that depending on your sources this is either really simple to do or quite complicated. For instance, you will find graphs of buckling spring actuation points online and in them you will see a point where the...

What model is the zenith board? Tried looking it up as Zenith Cherry Luggable and it came up with the Z-160 computer, is it the keyboard that comes with that computer system?

Almost finished designing a Model F front and back plate for a future project but I am now facing the prospect of either paying hundreds to get hold of Model F buckling spring assemblies or having to recreate a buckling spring's barrel and flipper assembly to 3d print. Before I try to do this I want...

I have never really been a fan of Ellipse's projects. His car salesman attitude that I've seen in communication with him has really put me off delving more into his boards. I listed my F77 for sale less than a week after getting it just because I was so disappointed with the keyfeel. Hell, my ruste...

I really don't see the excuse, it cost thousands for him to do the other cases so why stop at the F107? For christ sake he is remaking the beamspring! Even if cost was a deciding factor he could have just marketed the price to be a lot more, I bet even at £800 people would have still bought it. I th...

[…] and even in a worst case scenario a bolt/screw mod just needs a power drill and some screws and your good to go. Always funny how people say 'it's easy" when referring to something in which they are proficient, assuming it applies to everybody else. For the vast majority of users, the "worst ca...

I have literally never encountered that criticism. :) More often, I read reviews such as this one that describes the original IBM Model Ms as "built like a tank". I suppose everything is relative. The Model F feels virtually indestructible. Maybe the Model M has changed over the years. The defect I...

JP! wrote: ↑

17 Dec 2022, 03:59

Robotron K7672.04

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Damn, I do not know why but that's a good looking keyboard!

To be fair thats as good as you going to get unless you look into making tiny keyboards yourself. You should be able to do it fairly easily thankfully, just find some small momentary stitches and do a matrix circuit. Wire it to a microcontroller and write up a keymap with QMK and flash it. Boom, you...

Not much difference in my oppion. I would argue its not down to the switches but instead the keycaps. Cherry switches have a nack for having a different feel depending on keycap profile. For instance blues with OEM caps usually are slightly heavier and dimmer sound compared to SA/XDA keycaps where t...

Wait... What?? If I am wrong that's cool but at this moment in time I do not know how you would recreate a Beamspring membrane without specialist machinery. Thus I said its not accessible, possible yes but not accessible Beamsprings use a capacitive PCB (not membrane). The design files for PCBs for...

As long as the Beamspring switches are reliant on a membrane it will not really be accessible as most enthusiasts don't know or have the resources to recreate a membrane for a custom layout. Wait... What?? If I am wrong that's cool but at this moment in time I do not know how you would recreate a B...

Heavy metal bump'

I think you would find this post (and the whole thread around it) very informative: https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=10744&p=510348&hilit=fssk#p510348 It's not the only way of doing things, but should give you a good idea of what's required (as well as some excellent resources to build o...

While I have been designing my case for the IBM 5382, my mind has been drifting to the F107 a lot recently. I want to own the board someday but with them being rarer than hens teeth I have been thinking that the only really way I will be able to own one is, well, building one! Case is not too much a...