KAC-6162R with white Dai-Ichi CL-1145 found!
Posted: 28 Nov 2022, 08:17
So i found this keyboard on a local online marketplace. From the few pictures the seller gave me, at first i thought it was an unbranded keyboard with omron whites, so i bought them since they looked to be in nice condition and even has the dust cover. A nice addition to the collection.
I looked it up on the wiki and there isn't a full keyboard found with this switch yet, and I seemed to found a new variant so i decided to post it here.
The keyboard itself is a standard (slightly)cheap keyboard with so-so thickness on the case and a thick metal plate. The keycaps uses double shot abs and uses standard alps stabs (except for the spacebar which uses costar stabs) Now for the switches, some of them are the white variant, but some of them are of a salmon colour. But when i open it up they were a gradient of white to salmon. I didn't notice a whole lot different from the whites, but I did notice a slightly deeper click and they are a very so slightly more tactile i think, but that might be placebo. The board has a random mix of them.
Here are the insides of the switches
The stem The internals The contacts The switches them selfs are quite smooth and has a slightly softer click, i like them.
Edit : forgot to mention that 3 switches were sticking. I think this was because of age / wear. On two of the stem cracked a bit because of the keycaps, making it bind on the upstoke. One of them had a slight bulge from the keycaps, making it also bind. The fix is just to glue it back and sand down a bit of the top housing near the crack/bend.
Some more photos of the pcb etc The board itself seems to be from 03-1990 from what i can tell from then warranty sticker on it
Hopefully this will be useful for the wiki. If you need more hq pics i could probably retake some pictures.
But when i open it up it was mostly some white dai-ichi cl-1145 switch!I looked it up on the wiki and there isn't a full keyboard found with this switch yet, and I seemed to found a new variant so i decided to post it here.
The keyboard itself is a standard (slightly)cheap keyboard with so-so thickness on the case and a thick metal plate. The keycaps uses double shot abs and uses standard alps stabs (except for the spacebar which uses costar stabs) Now for the switches, some of them are the white variant, but some of them are of a salmon colour. But when i open it up they were a gradient of white to salmon. I didn't notice a whole lot different from the whites, but I did notice a slightly deeper click and they are a very so slightly more tactile i think, but that might be placebo. The board has a random mix of them.
Here are the insides of the switches
The stem The internals The contacts The switches them selfs are quite smooth and has a slightly softer click, i like them.
Edit : forgot to mention that 3 switches were sticking. I think this was because of age / wear. On two of the stem cracked a bit because of the keycaps, making it bind on the upstoke. One of them had a slight bulge from the keycaps, making it also bind. The fix is just to glue it back and sand down a bit of the top housing near the crack/bend.
Some more photos of the pcb etc The board itself seems to be from 03-1990 from what i can tell from then warranty sticker on it
Hopefully this will be useful for the wiki. If you need more hq pics i could probably retake some pictures.