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I had a couple but tossed them out because they had turned to sticky black goo.

As a tangential question, does anybody know how to restore old black plastic that has become sticky and nasty?
I am thinking of some handles in particular, such as tools and umbrellas.

I ordered F122 foam from Ellipse for $60 shipped, You complain about money for shipping, yet numerous people have volunteered to put this together for you for the cost of round trip postage. I think that it is about time that you send your keyboard to someone, in another country if necessary, and h...

I would consider using a Dremel to create a hole for those trackpoint switches.

https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/1394942

I would say water only. You probably have mere dried drink residue.

i think i'll just sell this. can't get the stabiliser inserts back into the barrel frame and i've mangled them trying. don't want to resort to other keycaps.. For the future, I don't know whether I detailed this in my guide, but it is best to push the plastic stabilizer tabs out from behind with a ...

If you have a Teensy and Soarer's firmware it should work easily. If you have one of Orihalcon's converter cables, the XT uses a 180 degree DIN while a 122 uses a 240 degree DIN and they are not interchangeable.

I got a subwoofer with no volume control module, the amplifier and everything else is inside the subwoofer box.

If I get this 9-pin plug cable and cut it back to bare wires, what do I connect to hot-wire it so that it is just on at full volume all the time?

Thanks!

when i removed the tabs to put bolts. Please don't attribute removing tabs to me! Once upon a time maybe 6-8 years ago, I briefly posted a guide showing tabs being cut off and numerous bolts used to replace them. I did that procedure a few times and it worked well enough, but there were potential p...

the middle row doesn't sound as nice as the rest, I can't speak directly to the issue of sound, since I try to attenuate the high-pitched overtones of the F, but for several years now, every time I open one of these up to clean it, I add 3 screws and nuts near the center line: one between CapsLock/...

Have you looked at my guide for the ANSI mod? With a hole punch and some clamps I have refurbed probably at least twenty-five Fs without any particular issues, all but about 2 or 3 needing new foam. I have generally used 1.5mm moderately firm closed-cell "art" foam and also a slightly thinner but al...

I have bought a KB-5181 with blue Cherries, but most of them are SMK, quite nice.

The Laser is a very nice board, too, but neither of these are really top-tier keyboards.

My guess is that there is definitely $500 worth of value in there.

An arm full of good keyboards could do it, and a working (or even non-working) Selectric is worth something.

It has been at least a couple of years since I found an excellent keyboard for a cheap price in the wild, but today I got an absolutely pristine AEK2 in a salvage shop for $3.99 This one is utterly immaculate and not yellowed at all whatsoever, a later model with dampened whites instead of creams. I...

Somebody in the UK needs to pounce on that one.

I have bought "almost new in box" Alps that felt terrible, and yet I also got a Dell AT101W in 1998, used it for several years until some of the caps were shiny, gave it to friend who never used it and kept it in a closet for 6-8 years, then got it back and it still felt good. I kept "Northgate 101"...

There is nothing wrong with buying things low to re-sell. Nobody forces any buyer to buy anything at a price higher than he is willing to shell out.

And it is especially good to keep desirable objects out of garbage cans.

I wouldn't bother getting the sets off of them, they are sold on eBay and several mech shops I don't know, they seem just as pricey anywhere and the white-on-black CapsLock (one of my primary quests, along with the even more difficult old-school space bar) doesn't seem to be listed anywhere else.

Sorry for a silly newbie-esque post, but I want to order some Alps caps, a Tai Hao Dolch set, maybe something else, and a couple of CapsLocks that will fit vintage boards like AT101 and Omnikey. I live in the US, is it best to order from Tai Hao or somewhere in the West? Looking at Mechanical Keyboa...

with some pieces of rubber to avoid more damage. but didn't took more than 2 attempts. Folded cardboard, the rough brown kind, is the best way to buffer yet hold firmly and avoid scarring. Don't be discouraged until at least half a dozen attempts have failed. I have done dozens of these, and even f...

it was too wobbly Some types have ball joints under the pressure pads, and those can be hard to keep stable under the thin edges of the plates. That is picture I sent. I have used that kind but it is tricky. If you can find the kind that have flat pressure plates that don't swivel, that would proba...

It seems like you have some aversion to getting a bar clamp, they are simple and cheap. That is the only reasonable way to slide the plates back together. I do usually give it a tap with a hammer at the very end, but only after it is assembled properly. https://express.google.com/u/0/product/3090523...

Don't trust the colors if you don't have the original cable, and remember that the diagrams show the socket, not the plug.

Geekhack is lighter in weight that Deskthority and occupied by a number of pseudo-trolls, who can be argumentative and profoundly annoying, but not to a degree that rises to the level of "toxic" although it has been buffeted by a number or storms. There is a lot more non-keyboard and keyboard-tangen...

Not all male-to-male mini-DIN cables have 4 or more active wires.

I once had one with with only 3 pins actually live and it was driving me crazy on a Northgate.
Test your continuity before you worry about anything else.

It is good to say where you live. For example, international postage outbound from the US is ridiculously expensive, and there is not a "small packet" option as there is in most countries. If it does not lie flat and flexible in an envelope less than 2 cm thick, then it is considered to be the same ...

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12 Apr 2019, 15:22

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Winner!

Arrow keys look to be swapped horizontal for vertical.

Wheelwriter ones use different stabilizers. As I recall they have square holes or something.