deskthority

Almost certainly rubber domes, and likely pad printed caps, i.e. not much of a keyboard.

Re-yellowing confiermed (again).

This CSK-1101P keyboard http://deskthority.net/photos-f62/costar-csk-1101p-compact-layout-omron-switches-t5759.html which I retrobrighted about a year ago is more or less back to its original yellowed condition.

It has been stored in complete darkness in a box at a ...

pyrelink wrote: Oh and I am typing on said painted keyboard, as we type and it is still good as new. The paint is ever so slightly worn

Encouraging; but can you elaborate that it's after how much time of how intensive use?

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This is the bottom side of my Cherry 1800. You can see the plastic is slightly yellowed, everywhere except where the upper layer is constantly worn away through contact with the table (the line where the rubber feet used to be, before they fell off).

And my table isn't covered ...

BlueBär wrote:Looks like Ansi doubleshots or dyesubs to me: http://www.ebay.de/itm/111378224507

10 EUR says pad printed.

I think the Satin Fossil color is an exceptionally tasteful choice. Can you perhaps post a link to the exact paint that you used?

tinnie wrote:Well, they said they'll resolve it in coming week.
P.S. Won't ship any stuff before paypal unlock my account, sorry.

Paypal can behave like a real ***hole.
Be careful there Tinlong, remember what happened to Sixty...

Unlike Ebay, you have to pay a monthly fee to use Yahu-Oku (auctions.yahoo.co.jp) as a buyer. For that, you need a credit card issued by a bank in Japan, because when you try to add a credit card to your account, your street address in Japanese is a required field and non-Japanese credit cards don't ...

I have one of those complete with the case and cable, in good condition. Waiting for some free time to write a review.

Muirium wrote:DT: the mysterious foreign authority on classic keyboards that someone must translate into Japanese / Mandarin / Korean someday.

If you pretend you don't know what "deskthority" is, and google it, you may be surprised at what comes up as the first hit:

This is a curious device I don't think I have seen anywhere before:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/AT-T-Deaf-Hearing-Impaired-Assistance-Phone-TDD-2830-w-Cherry-MX-Keyboard-/350889531974


http://i.ebayimg.com/t/AT-T-Deaf-Hearing-Impaired-Assistance-Phone-TDD-2830-w-Cherry-MX-Keyboard-/00/s/OTYwWDEyODA ...

And this:

http://www.ebay.de/itm/231057146690

Though unfortunately it is not a G80-1800H*U which I am looking for, I believe that 1800H*D are not very common either.

No information besides the model number. On a second look, I find it a little suspicious, as Chicony keyboards typically are designated KB-xxxx. So I am going to rephrase it as this: the keyboad is definitely model number OK-100M, and claimed to have been made by Chicony.

mbodrov wrote:Here is what looks like a further development (i.e. simplification) of this type.

This is a noname keyboard, made in Taiwan.

The keyboard has since been identified as the Chicony OK-100M (with many OEM variants)

Ah yes. Those eye-scorching blue LEDs are abominable. Since I buy most of my equipment second-hand and out of warranty, I swap them immediately for a more appropriate color like red or orange. Frankly, what was wrong with those tried-and-true colors? I mean, blue LEDs had novelty value at one time ...

I wish Sony would push this new LED panels (without LCD, just millions of LEDs) they demo'ed, awesome!
Samsung monitors with RGB LED backlighting made it as far as mass production several years ago: the XL series. However, their panels still had a LCD layer too. In practical use they were found to ...

I went through 5 or 6 expensive IPS monitors (Dell, HP, NEC) all of which I eventually had to return because of defects in the LCD panel. Dead pixels, color tint, thermal ghosting, you name it.

Now I have settled on using a Samsung home TV, 40 inch S-PVA, as my desktop monitor, and couldn't have ...

Biernot wrote:What about this one: http://www.ebay.de/itm/321179187921 ?

Mechanical? Cherry? Doubleshots? Nothing at all?

Enter↵ = not Cherry
↵Enter = possibly Cherry

If everything happens in the microscopic surface layer, it does not go along with the idea that there are deep stores of "yellow pigment" which diffuses back to the surface even in total darkness. The precursor chemicals may well do so, but for the actual yellowing to occur would still require all ...

The original damage from light causes degraded or free bromides throughout the case from the fire retardants. Retr0Bright only takes these away from the surface layer. However these bromides can migrate fairly freely through the polymer. They don't need light to do this. Migration is probably ...

tinlong117 wrote:fuck. the seller keep being offline.

Did you manage to contact him at least once? If you did, what was your impression of him? A normal seller or a weird person?

Nice work! Having access to a lathe certainly opens up possibilities.

I made something similar in my CNC class quite a while back:

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Here, the loop is held with a metal cap salvaged from junk (a mechanical pencil part probably, I don't remember), which is not so well suited for ...

So long as no one else on Taobao swoops in and grabs our stuff!
I don't think it's a big risk. I remember most, or possibly all the items in this GB already being there on taobao a year or two ago: this seller's prices aren't exactly low, which is understandable with a specialized seller who knows ...

Say tinlong, is any of his Cherry 1800s actually available?
Links:
http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a1z10.3.w17-4181379585.36.QrcJrZ&id=10888677947&
http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a1z10.3.w17-4181379585.16.j0WamI&id=13535362507&
http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a1z10.3.w17-4181379585.14 ...

Even checking Google Translator (my Chinese is not that good :P), I didn't understand the splitting of the board:

Uniaxial five yuan a whole plate 80 yuan -> not sure what it means, plate with switches?
Primary key area keycaps (ie in addition to the topmost row of lighted) 128 yuan -> alphas?
Top ...

The photos were taken on the same table under the same lamp, but months apart. Still, the differences you noticed are not there due to lighting conditions, they are indeed present on the keycaps.

The L (lasered) and H (doubleshot) keycaps are from relatively modern keyboards (ca. 2000-2002) which ...

matt3o wrote:Dirge
http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=0.0 ... 6162823983

Warning: Keycaps Only, Not Including Keyboard!
(全白二色键帽 (整套键帽不含键盘）)

did they improve their printing? I had the impression letters were less sharp (from an earlier imto gb).
or does it depend on colour?
Dyesub will always have a bit of soft edge

As an illustration, here are a few high-resolution pictures of Cherry's different legend printing methods:

Lasered ...

The 1.5u Esc and also the Power-Sleep-Wake buttons very strongly (let's say 98%) indicate a non-mechanical keyboard. Though there are exceptions (very few), if these two signs are manifested together you can be 99.9% sure it's non-mechanical. I hope this will be useful in your search for a ...

The white switch under the spacebar in the Costar CSK-1101P that I have ( http://deskthority.net/photos-videos-f8/costar-csk-1101p-compact-layout-omron-switches-t5759.html ) does not feel the slightest bit different from the normal orange switches; it is tactile and clicky. Maybe the spring is ...