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lot_lizard wrote: ↑Opened a lovely little package today, and just wanted to thank everyone for such a wonderful year.

Well achieved, without question.

Beam plates would be cheaper? They're at least twice as thick as cap plates. Why cheaper? They're flat plates, right? I haven't owned a beamspring myself. Just too expensive each time I've seen one. I think it's a big labor cost to roll the MF plates. Yeah they're flat and the holes are simple. Gue...

Beam plates would be cheaper? They're at least twice as thick as cap plates. Why cheaper?

I guess now is as good a time as any to mention that I'm building an ergonomic split beamspring keyboard... Love... and look forward to seeing. Glad you mentioned. Our conversations have been focused around targeting the switch itself. Since we are going to need to be making it from scratch (nothin...

__red__ wrote: ↑I guess now is as good a time as any to mention that I'm building an ergonomic split beamspring keyboard...

Ok, let's set up the group buy...

emdude wrote: ↑They are not, I arranged the order for the caps with Don at Unicomp.

Excellent. I remember reading past concerns about the quality of their APL legends, good to know they can get things tuned in.

You're sure those were not simply old stock they had since forever?

MFCooperative?

I believe Choplin matches the THINK font if stretched a bit.

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/rene-bieder/choplin/

Pardon my maiming of your image, something like this:



Maybe a shorter length, but that idea.

Would you want the square guide to be set back a little so the tip of the round key can engage with the spring? Maybe an "setback" on the round part (think of a peg from an old Battleship board game)?

I'm wondering if it might be of use for the mounting holes on this backplate to be oval (long horiz axis) so the assembly could be shifted slightly in the case and allow for case variations. We actually don't use the back plate oval holes at all. Those pegs in the bottom shell have always been the ...

Well guess what! It appears earlier Model Ms had a different orentation for the barrels (not sure if this is due to the barrel mold or the chassis itself since both are slightly different from later revisions). I don't know that you can pin this to early/late models, factory variation, or something...

A while back (maybe on GH) there was a tool made from a 1/4" pop rivet that looked really sturdy, and could also be used for pivot plates in situ as a better alternative to the "Chopstick of Death" method. Unfortunately, I have never been able to find it again. This is the tool I use for the chopst...

Do you need to be mechanically inclined? I suspect I'd be faster with my method of install (twist without a tool), and getting the spring vertical has never been an issue.

What does the tool look like/do?

Slom wrote: ↑
No, I'm pretty sure that I read somewhere that Swedish scientists discovered that the Germans allready had DVD in the 1940s

They did have optical disks in the late 30's:

https://120years.net/the-welte-licht-to ... rmany1936/

lot_lizard wrote: ↑If anyone was curious, this is a very scaled down (60dpi) version of the SVG that is being used to cut the stabilizer rings out of the silicone sheeting.

Is there a meaningful reason the pattern shifts near the bottom of the graphic?

livingspeedbump wrote: ↑

lot_lizard wrote: ↑ so why not splurge.

Sounds like a good plan. Live a little.

I think he's just going to build a fort out of the extra boxes.

ohaimark wrote: ↑They wanted to differentiate their brand, most likely.

Nothing that simple.

I suppose the original font was Helvetica? IBM used a (then common) Helvetica variant that featured balanced rounding and slim text. Why do people fuck with perfectly good fonts . IBM was flipping HUGE on user experience on all fronts back in the day. If they screwed with it I'd bet they had studie...

Any kind of tesselated pattern would work, I think the escher lizards are look good and are very appropriate. I believe there should be some "personal mark" of LL on the thing, something subtle, and that fits the bill.

Maybe just a repeating MF logo?

...or how about a spaced out parade of lizards?

Maybe now would be a good time to ask them if they can chromate dip screws?

edit: I have a very nice Industrial and standard SSK and picked up a beat to hell one a while back just for the case for this project. The case was chipped and scratched, but I got it back today looking much much better Was that done with one of those "paint dip" setups? Yeah it was hydrodipped by ...

livingspeedbump wrote: ↑edit: I have a very nice Industrial and standard SSK and picked up a beat to hell one a while back just for the case for this project. The case was chipped and scratched, but I got it back today looking much much better

Was that done with one of those "paint dip" setups?

No, no, not stickers. "Commemorative Decals"

Now that's just uncalled for. (there's no vomit smiley, so here's a duck )

I thought F1 was centered over 2, F5 centered over Y, and F9 centered over minus, but I cannot say I ever took precise measurements. That's not the case?

Can you give some examples of improvements made vs the originals?

Looks good. Maybe it's the render, maybe I'm delusional, but are the F1-F4 cutouts *slightly* too far to the left?

I would probably opt for Torx socket bits. Usually those combination sets that people already have include a hand driver (think screwdriver for sockets). You would be able to apply additional torque to things in the future that need it via the ratchet, and they store well. The only downside would b...