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I think some people have tried waxing (to fill the scratches in the slider) and then a thin lube on top to increase smoothness from the housing. Not been much word on that though, just stuff I've heard around. Could be worth looking into if the wax turned out less smooth than you thought.

Whoa, that Viatron. How close did you ever get to figuring out the protocol? I've seen more than a few of those now and would love to see one in actual operation. From what I understand the keys are locked without power, like a Selectric. Did you ever manage to get them to unlock?

The 3101 on eBay last year was confirmed to have a fake reproduction box. So far, as far as I've seen, zero "boxed" beamspring boards have been found. They weren't really commercial products either, they were mostly leased out, so they wouldn't have any kind of interesting box art either, it would j...

We have that, it's called TMK. Takes like 30 seconds to flash, is open source, and continually updated.

I haven't actually tried. I was so frustrated by the end of the whole endeavor I boxed up the keyboard and haven't opened it since, except to take pictures for listing. Oh, dang it, I just remembered another thing I was going to ask you: some of your experience with the reflash sounds a little like...

It took me many, many tries to get either QMK toolbox or the Andrei util to recognize the keyboard, and even more to flash it. It finally worked, for some reason, but I sincerely hope I never have to flash it again. Out of curiosity, do you find it is still as hard to get the keyboard to properly g...

I think you should pin mcmil's comment to the top of Deskthority. Easily the hardest I've ever laughed at anything on this forum.

I can't believe it's been exactly a year since this thread started. What a fucking insane time to be on this forum. I wonder if keyboardcuck keeps a framed photo of it on his wall.

The speaker on model Ms was never intended to be a beeper, unfortunately. Best I can tell is it was possibly meant to output post beeps when used with the original systems, but it's very strange that so few had them if this was the intended use case.

Regarding the install time, did you read the manual and check out the installation videos showing how to hold the keyboard up vertically, space bar end up? It should not take an hour to install the keycaps. I've installed the keycaps on about a dozen original model Fs and Ms, exactly the way you de...

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Andrei's firmware has a diagnostic tool that detects the capacitance of each pad, keypresses, allows you to put the board into bootloader mode, etc etc. Fairly sure it works on everything that uses QMK capsense.

I don't have much experience with Model F boards outside of this F77 repro, but I can tell you that if what you are used to is installing caps on a Model M, it's a completely different experience I've restored probably about a dozen Model Fs, way more than I've restored Model Ms. Never have I had a...

I for one am very not pleased with my F77. It arrived about a week ago, and frankly I am extremely disappointed. While the build quality is solid and nothing is *overtly* broken, there are so many strange things about it that just make me wish it was done better. -It took over an hour to assemble. T...

No links unfortunately, was on Taobao a few months ago, last time I looked.

My FSSK is absolutely my favorite keyboard, better than most of my original Fs honestly. I don't know whether it's the layout, the all-plastic case dampening the ping slightly (yeah yeah I know, ping is best, but nice to get a break from) or the fact that it just looks sexier on account of being an ...

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Hi all, I recently traded for a brand spanking new IBM model M50, from the IBM holy lands of Argentina. The keyboard is excellent and it is currently serving desk duty as my trusty SSK companion. Because this board was new in the foam, it came with all of the original documentation, the keypuller (w...

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Can we get some sound tests of these cases? I'm sure they'd sound absolutely *thunderous*.

Muirium wrote: ↑

16 May 2022, 22:47

Bring that baby to London, I dare you! Also maybe wear comfortable clothing.

Pay for my plane ticket and you've got yourself a deal

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16 May 2022, 16:59

headphone_jack wrote: ↑

16 May 2022, 15:20

M/F *are*

Pictures or it didn't happen.

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15 May 2022, 14:53

The M/F would have been spectacular, taking Ellipse's work to the next level, in my opinion.

Would have been? M/F *are* amazing!

Hi all, Looking to sell my F77 repro as I vastly prefer the feel and sound of my FSSK. This keyboard was used very lightly for one day, has some firmware issues that cause key registry only on the upstroke but this could probably be fixed with a simple reflash. Asking $400 plus shipping, priority sh...

good price glws, do you want trades?

The modern customs scene has mostly gravitated towards small form factor (sub-TKL) keyboards, but a notable exception is the Hyper7 kit, as well as the Modern Unsaver project (which I believe is currently in limbo). Those were just the ones I could think of off the top of my head, but I have no doub...

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