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well that is like comparing a Farrari from 30 years ago and one from today they are both of high quality but it depends what you want from a board, with IBM you are locked to switch, keycaps and layout compared to what you can get today, on the other hand the IBM keyboard is going to be more ...

kbdfr wrote: 12 Jul 2019, 13:04 Edit: where are the "my Cherry keyboard ceased working properly" threads?

cherry are not worth the effort to fix, i mean if they were i doubt Wodan would keep finding them at the recycling center

have you tried holding the board inverted (badge at the bottom) so that the spring is more central in the barrel when putting the key on?

i do not believe there has been a board ith that specific layout given that the vast majority would go for either 65/75% if they wanted arrow keys but smaller then a TKL aka SSK layout. you could probably quite easily design your own plate and sandwich case and then hand wire the board and get ...

I would say this topic is more about your personal key feel then just strictly MX blacks which are only one part of what gives a board its feel after things like keycaps, plate stiffness etc this is what makes keyboards very much a personal hobby as everyone will have their own sweet spot in terms ...

Meetups might be interesting: do they feature curry and beer? I was about to say that I'm not sure some fat old goth turning up would really raise the tone but it didn't seem to stop The Cure at Glasto. Meow, etc. :D


Yeah we tend to have a meal in the evening then go out for beers afterwards so ...

Hi Vometia, maybe you might be interested in attending the next UK mechanical keyboards meetup as you could then try other peoples boards with a whole host of switches and keycap profiles to then find one that you prefer rather then getting different boards? There are different spring weights so it ...

sadly that can happen depending on the ink that was used and also the temperature it was stored at. at least the keycaps can be replaced a lot easier then the rest of the assembly

I used left over underlay for laminate floorboards, it has the right thickness and compressibility needed.

The reason why bad foam ruins it is because the disintegrated foam gets in between the flippers and the pcb and then affects the capacitance which would then cause keys to not register properly.

the foam would help keep the barrels pressed down onto the pcb. even though the barrels have a small raised bud that fits through the barrel plate, it does not stop the barrel moving vertically up and down. If there is too much of a gap between the barrel and the pcb there is a chance that the ...

yes i do,
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Also one took at the last UK meetup in April

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That is really cool, acrylic always looks nice when done properly. You rarely see people actually make a keyboard out of OG caps and layout, usually they just want the switches.


i actually quite like the ...

ah the 5140 systems i managed to rescue the leftovers of one of the keyboards that had been harvested for the brown alps and converted it to USB, got an acrylic case made and now i use it for work at a community centre where i volunteer.


That sounds awesome! Do you have any pics?


yes i do ...

ah the 5140 systems i managed to rescue the leftovers of one of the keyboards that had been harvested for the brown alps and converted it to USB, got an acrylic case made and now i use it for work at a community centre where i volunteer. would be great to see the systems either preserved or even ...

ah looks like it was from the same seller however they appear to have now sold out

Menuhin wrote: 14 Jun 2019, 09:40 I've been on and off watching these WEY for a while... (a few years)
What is missing is the specialized cable - not to be bought from the seller nor easily found elsewhere.

the cable is available on ebay, i will post a link when i get home later tonight

the cables can be found on ebay, there is a German seller, just search wey tec and they will come up, have tried to find the cable elsewhere but no luck a different cable i also ordered from Germany had the wrong number of pins. As for the control box i can't help you there.

how an earth were they able to run a business with everything being in such a mess with things dumped everywhare i mean great for us that want the stuff but how the hell would you find anything if it was a part that was needed etc

hmm perhaps you would have better luck selling on mechmarket or GH, If the keycaps were not so non standard on the right side then i would pick it up.

i think by using clamps and forcing the backplate into the tabs rather then bending the tabs themselves means that there is no mechanical stress put on the tabs unlike what your method would involve by bending the tabs out of the way.

i guess its just because the huge stack that was available has now mostly being sold though i would find it terrible if the pingmaster was so far a users only experience of alps and IBM but i suspect if a warehouse full of Model Fs was found and sold for cheap then you would see them everywhare also

pictures?

Nice collection so far, looking forward to seeing what the future sales will be.

I would say the best way to do it would be to use something like QMK firmware and have the different layouts that you want on different layers so you would be able to cycle to the layer that you want depending on the system you are in and with all programming done and remaining on the keyboard level.

the smell is from a lot of excess flux on the pcb i don't know why they secided to bathe it in flux but that seems to be what they have done

i think that the modifiers and other keys you mentioned used different sensors the wiki article mentions several types so that would expplain the different layout for those keys

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In answer to the other questions:

In original pcb

Pins 2 and 3 are generating an output however one pin would be connected to a row and the other would be connected to a column and both row and column would be read to determine the position of the switch however it is not always a set pin for row ...

i have the hardware to do a build, i was just waiting on a few more replacement sensors need to pm dorkvader again but as soon as i get the sensors then i can see if it will work. I believe Slom did manage to get a keyboard working but not sure if it was NKRO.

ok so in your photo, the red is what you will use as rows i assume is the + on the sensor, the Black is ground and can therefore be wired together as you have done. Both central pins commoned together will be the columns. the idea being is that the power (rows) are strobed so therefore if the sensor ...