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The PVC plastics used in the Model F122 case are notoriously brittle. They do not stand up to the weight of a ten pound or 4 kilogram keyboard. One false move and the top case is cracked. F122s are decently rare and finding replacement top cases is quite difficult. Fortunately, we have an ace in the...

The point of the "Ship of Theseus" thought experiment is that the notion of authenticity is entirely arbitrary and in the eye of the beholder. So, the answer is up to you.

Three F122s left in this batch. If interested, please make an offer!

Definitely not an F122. My guess is a Memorex Telex rubber dome board.

Three to go!

this legit? https://www.ebay.com/itm/274799620876 That's a micro switch ST (https://deskthority.net/wiki/Micro_Switch_ST_Series)variant and not buckling spring. The seller is RJR in Atlanta. He is an old IBM dealer with a warehouse of goods. Buyer beware, these are not buckling spring boards as oth...

Four F122s remain as a part of this sale.

I reached my keyboard inventory limit this weekend and have literally nowhere else to put things, apologies for being unable to do more. 5000 keyboards is a lot of keyboards. The seller says these are on 12 pallets? That is 416 keyboards per pallet. These pallets will have to be at least 2m tall to ...

I still have five very nice F122s available! Please buy one!

fohat wrote: ↑

15 May 2021, 01:52

Weezer wrote: ↑

14 May 2021, 23:37

it's already at $365

That's about the going rate for a Model F 122-key terminal.

You can get yours at viewtopic.php?f=52&t=25667

Wow! I have a Sherwin Williams just up the road, can you share some info so they can mix me up a batch?

JP! wrote: ↑

09 May 2021, 20:16

https://www.ebay.com/itm/224440997334

Oh, he jacked the price. Mine was 69.99 USD plus 14.99 USD for shipping. Hopefully it will be here in a week or two...

US-side $500 can get you cleaned, converted with new foam, and shipped I cannot match that. A foam mod is a major undertaking, about a four hour job, assuming the foam has already been procured. But I can throw in a free Soarer's Converter for the next two boards that go to US buyers. Please be sur...

Five F122s still for sale here! 500 USD shipped isn’t so bad when you consider that shipping to the UK or EU costs about 100 USD and is included!

Apologies for the awful photo, this little one just came in on Sunday and it's been a hell of a week.

Free bump for an extremely reasonable seller and an old forum friend. Get some good discounts while you can!

Graphite works okay. I’ve had better luck using silver conductive paste to do membrane repair. It comes in a tiny syringe but it’s not terribly expensive. For membrane substrate repair e.g. torn membrane, archival quality packing tape does a pretty good job. Glad you got it fixed!

Bump! I've still got seven six gorgeous F122s to rehome. Two are even offered at a discount. I'll start listing these through other channels but wanted to make sure my Deskthority friends got first pick.

But dehydrator does not make sense for people who clean their keyboards from time to time. It has saved me quite a lot of effort already. One may already be present in the kitchen. There was a time when these were a common $5 thrift store item. Trace amounts of water will evaporated from a keycap v...

I just dump them from the cleaner on a piece of cloth and start putting them directly onto the keyboard blowing on the underside of each cap to get any bigger water droplets out. They will dry themselves by the time I will have seated them all on the keyboard. There is not enough water on a keycap ...

Cleaner: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HLBKNKI/
Dehydrator: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y2ZKX6Y

Can you recommend a specific brand and model of ultrasonic cleaner and a food dehydrator? P.S. Does running the keycaps through the food dehydrator cause any change in the durability of the plastic? I'll post links a little later but they may be specific to the US. The dehydrator runs at about 60 C...

We get a fair number of keyboards - particularly IBM buckling spring boards of late - through XMIT Labs. As always, we're looking for the easiest and best ways of cleaning key caps. We've already talked about soap recently. See https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=25639. Today we're here to t...

Riptide666 wrote: ↑

19 Nov 2020, 21:40

Hello, please PM me if you've got a F122 for sale. Any condition welcomed. Thanks.

If you don't already have one:

viewtopic.php?f=52&t=25667

Good luck!

Boards continue to trickle out at a rate of about one per day. Please do not hesitate if you are on the fence! I may start offering some boards through other outlets.

Are we surprised that a Frenchman never makes mistakes and doesn’t need a Backspace key?

Beware the angry Scotsman, lest he come at you with his caber.


I personally never use Left Shift. On some space constrained keyboards I will remap it to something else.

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Won't help with yellowing, of course. Sodium percarbonate is the active ingredient in "Oxi Clean" type products. It is sodium carbonate that releases a peroxide. I believe it is used somewhat commonly by home brewers to clean their equipment. You might experiment with adding small amounts of that, ...

Do you have any idea what device he used to get those 3D scans? I've got a number of items that I'd like so scanned. Lots of interesting spherical profiles that I've gathered over the years. Now that I'm filled with rage over the going price for a Space Cadet, I'm newly motivated to 3D scan all of m...

Oh, have you tried uship.com? It's a service for getting directly in touch with LTL truckers.

You can also ask the seller to bring it to a shipping place and have them deal with it for you.

Just keep working the problem.

I wonder if MechMerlin could help, they're in Seattle and might know someone.

I've asked around on a couple of Discord rooms for you, maybe someone will bite. Good luck.