deskthority

Hei, any updates? I bought a Quefrency 65% kit and I also have some damped Alps switches, *and* Costar stabilizers, *and* Alps stabilizer wires (and keycaps and stuff from some old Alps keyboard parts). From my tests, the Costar stabs fit (I had to cut off their rear "lip"), but I will have to eithe...

Hypersphere wrote: ↑

24 Jan 2019, 15:01

Any idea who actually manufactures the Topre caps for KBDfans?

I think you can ask on the KBDFans site, either in the comments section here, or on their discord channel.

YW, in this case it's good to see someone's location, helps with offers filtering (ISO vs ANSI, and obviously shipping distance)

Also: viewtopic.php?f=55&t=17025

Of course, putting your location info in your profile would also help a lot.

You can find *extremes* in stock at https://mykeyboard.eu. If shipping is too expensive, you can most probably arrange something cheaper by contacting them by email. Although I can't recommend those, read any review and you'll see the extremes are really really really heavy.

andrea-i wrote: ↑

21 Jan 2019, 08:28

That is indeed my seiko5 watch, best watch for the bucks you can find, built the same since the 70s, just like the keyboards we love : D

Yeah, I also have that watch (the green version), that's why I spotted it in the first picture

Is that a Seiko watch? Also round number should be printed on the boxes. But it's round 1 for sure, since the /dev/tty blue key is visible

A-ha, after talking with you about those keycaps at the time - when the kbdfans groupbuy ran - I kept wanting to ask how you finally found them, just that I'm so freakin' busy lately. Good to know you do like them

Menuhin wrote: ↑

08 Jan 2019, 13:08

Just want to shout out to Matt3o for all his effort and also for all those that helped.
Kudos to them!

Ditto!

Also, I heard Tenerife is not that great lately (in reference to this post)

It's written on the label visible in one of the pics, if you open it in a separate tab (zoomable) - round 2.

Maybe ask (create a post on this forum) if somebody close to your location has a Topre, and is ok with a keyboard-testing visit?

Not sure if these kinds of links work anymore, but here's a try: https://www.massdrop.com/buy/topre-realforce-tkl-r2?mode=guest_open In any case, they sell 4 models (in stock, shipping in January 17th, drop ends in 3 days): "Fullsize - Black - 55g, Fullsize - Black - Variables, Tenkeyless - Black - ...

I think massdrop just opened a drop with these.

I'm sorry, you have the springs confused. These are not the springs under the domes, that indeed have no "functionality in terms of force". These are "after-market" springs designed especially to add force, and they are placed under the keycap (they don't replace the original springs under the domes).

The keyboards just sits there, since these days I use Topre keyboards both at home, at work and when traveling, so I can't say too much about the Aliaz pink switches. Compared to the browns, the spring is a bit heavier; I don't think they are more tactile than the browns, it's hard to compare since,...

The plate I used is ANSI, if that's what you're asking - i.e. the answer is no (you would have to desolder all switches, then buy and use an ISO plate instead). The keys can be mapped to any layout in firmware (QMK), but you can't modify the physical aspect of it.

These are cheap, PBT, but lasered:

https://mykeyboard.eu/catalogue/vortex- ... eycaps_31/

If you're not set on the "nordic" ISO though, you can also find more (better quality) keysets there.

Maybe some 10g springs from aliexpress?

They can be placed under the keycaps. Won't enhance tactility, just make the pushing a bit harder.

Hey, you're doing the right thing - just have a bit of patience (i.e. some days, a week) - it seems to be one of *those* periods of the year when people do something else

Any minute now, somebody will ask about the price of the sofa (with shipping)

Fortunately, Deskthority is not reddit ;) (AFAIK, timestamps are not required here) No German IBM Mµ keys? I’m still short of one, or several, of those. Preferably single piece, to match the rest on my Kishsaver. The "ii) German 2 piece keycaps" does have a german Mµ key, if you can put up with the ...

Should my avatar feel dizzy? Fingers crossed.

If it's just for show, it does nothing, so it's not mechanical In this sense, yes, the better a switch does its function (and, for keyboards, this means two things: to actually actuate and to feel good for the user), the more "mechanical" it is

So, it's mechanical if it deserves to be called as such

tentator wrote: ↑Yes sorry, but I think I understood that the "today" and "yesterday" in the post time are tricky to intrepret indeed..

Indeed it can probably be misleading, when the day and the time are read together Good luck with the sales! Also, how much for the carpet?

Thank you both for keeping this forum great.

Ah no no, I simply asked because the OP also thought my post was from the future (probably due to how Deskthority shows the time). Good luck restoring stuff!

My post (with the question) was made 51 minutes after your previous post - are you sure you got another request earlier than that?

Do you sell that Model F XT case separately? (i.e. without the PCB) If so, dibs! Could you estimate shipping costs to a major city in Romania?

I have a Bigfoot and I understand that it's possible to move its innards to an XT case (and I'd like to do that).