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Aye. Very informative. How about upstroke damping? I’m a sucker for that stuff: it cleans up the whole keyboard’s sound for me, muffling return stroke “noise” from the downstroke “signal” far as I’m concerned. Are these as damper friendly as Alps or (recent) MX? They don't come with dampeners by de...

Aye. Very informative. How about upstroke damping? I’m a sucker for that stuff: it cleans up the whole keyboard’s sound for me, muffling return stroke “noise” from the downstroke “signal” far as I’m concerned. Are these as damper friendly as Alps or (recent) MX? They don't come with dampeners by de...

Forgot to post this from yesterday . Today we look at the new click leaf switches, "Clickiez", by ZealPC! A very interesting combination between Alps and Cherry MX. Hope you enjoy the video!

You'd love the new Clickiez if you like 'em very tactile. For me it's beamsprings. The Zeal Clickiez? Thanks! I am reading up on them now and they look interesting. :D I have a switch tester for the Beamspring, Model F BS, and Model M BS and the beamspring is coming out the clear winner so far. Alt...

hellothere wrote: ↑

25 Jan 2022, 19:08

Now I want a video of Ellipse's new beamspring.

One of those *should* be coming my way when it's finished . Can not wait to try that out!

You'd love the new Clickiez if you like 'em very tactile. For me it's beamsprings. How did the Omron B2H triple magnet switches feel in terms of clickyness and tactility compared to Blue Alps etc.? Could be hard to define without having proper keycaps/a full sized board with them I guess. Absolutel...

You'd love the new Clickiez if you like 'em very tactile.

For me it's beamsprings.

Staple diet Alps boards (and caps) like these: https://deskthority.net/wiki/Alps_Bigfoot Apple’s caps were always goofy. I wouldn’t mix and match on my vintage Apple boards (AEK family and irrelevant here M0110). But my SGI is another matter. ;) Ah, you mean the IIc caps vs OEM profile ones? The II...

Muirium wrote: ↑

24 Jan 2022, 19:52

Thanks!

How tall are they against other Alps caps? The (Apple IIgs ?) caps you’ve got there aren’t ones I know first hand. Are these the same height as those?

They're the stock caps. I'm not sure which ones you're referring to specifically Oo .

Muirium wrote: ↑

22 Jan 2022, 10:35

And, uh, any chance you could pop some alphas on a bigfoot Alps board like like an SGI Granite for profile comparison? No reason, honest…

Will this do?

The MX blue comparison had me hooting in laughter! Aye, not a fair fight, no contest at all. Pity the brown Alps model is out of stock. That’s all that’s keeping me from nabbing it. (Ahem. And the fact it costs as much as my laptop.) The programming looks a lot of shite, but. You really prefer that...

Today we look at the Keymacs keyboard! A high-end machined metal brick aimed towards Emacs users. This thing is quite the piece of kit - also, it's a good time to revisit Matiases a little bit!

They're finally here! Today we look at a really cool new switch design by ZealPC: "Clickiez" switches incorporating an Alps-type click leaf inside of a Cherry MX housing. Plus some secret features! Hope you enjoy the video!

Hmm… 🤔 The ergo caught my interest, yet it’s the Otemu switches that really stand out here, as you say. I’d paid bugger all attention to them. Assumed they were Gateron-like Cherryier-than-Cherry fare. But they sound quite a bit like Omron, as far as this vid picks up, and that snappy action is app...

Today we look at the Truly Ergonomic Cleave, a kind of "ergo keyboard light", so to speak. It comes with some very interesting optoelectric switches by Outemu, employing a type of snap action. Hope you enjoy the video, and happy new year!

Very interesting, so you found an actual Interfatron model! I had been wondering if there were any ones specifically mentioning their involvement in the process. Out of curiosity, does it (still) have any Focus markings on it?

to see who would be pedantic enough to comment on it. It's still remarkably effective to this day xD . YES indeed, it picks up on the 'cretinous' quite effectively here, since I am from the traditional Cherry MX user crowd (older age tends to do that for you). Too old and lazy to hunt down peculiar...

In the Beginning of your video, why emblazon " WANING " in Bright Red, curious to know? This stems from a very old in-joke between me and my friend Kyle, who.made the intros, the channel art, and also that waning render. It's essentially a trap designed to catch "pendants". The first video I did wi...

Well, it's finally happened. I review the Orbitouch keyless keyboard. And yeah, I'm not happy :p .

Time for another teardown video! This time we're looking at Outemu's clicky optoelectric switch, or as I call it, the handclap switch. Hope you enjoy the video!

Today we look at the infamous Sinclair ZX Spectrum keyboard. This microcomputer from the early 1980s had a notoriously bad rubber chiclet keyboard. Prepare for swear!

The amount of drama on this forum never ceases to amaze me, I wish I was able to offend people IRL as well as I appear to do here . Doesn't REAL stuff bother you, like climate change or the pandemic, instead of some random guy rambling on about old keyboards? :p

Today we look at the Alps wax mod, a cleaning and restoration procedure to restore dirty or damaged Alps switches. It's become pretty widely known recently, so I got a lot of requests to try it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-IF5VmDaMg

Today we look at a really old keyboard from HP with extremely complicated switches; ITW magnetic valve! These are really cool, I hope you enjoy the video!

It's been a while since we looked at an Alps keyboard, let alone such a classic! It's also one of the more accessible Alps, even generally vintage, keyboards. Hope you enjoy the video!

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It's finally time to take a look at the Wooting Lekker edition keyboard! With new and improved Hall effect switches, this keyboard is quite something.

Today we look at an interesting new offering from Mountain, called the Everest Max. Focusing on several detachable/repositional modules, it also has hotswappability and some other features. Hope you enjoy the video!

Wow, what an explanation! It certainly seems that all these are complicated, but you did managed to narrow it down. If I understood correctly, we are ralking about a spray of hydrocarbons with some lithium soap? So not a grease per se but not a bare oil either. A spray that can be applied evenly, e...

you're all discussing hydrocarbons, but they are not the same, just like methane and graphite are not the same. Well, perhaps not just like that, given that one doesn't even contain hydrogen ;) Well it does, just at the edges :p . Methane and graphite are basically max-H versus min-H carbon. But fo...