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Scientific-Atlanta Spectral Dynamics SD425
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JP!
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I recently picked up this looker of a keyboard. The case design and quality are superb, unfortunately this one is impossible to type on. The switches are Hi-Tek High Profile which are notorious for cracked sliders.
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The switches are Hi-Tek High Profile which are notorious for cracked sliders.Teardown:
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Muirium
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- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
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- Main mouse: Apple Magic Mouse
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Oh, that's a shame. Those waffle frame switches are never any good. They spoil what is otherwise a decidedly elegant looking board. The case design is very flash, and the caps are stellar.
Makes you wonder what else you could retrofit in here…
There's quite a lot of Hi-Tek doubleshots still out there. What would they be like on adapters, for MX?
Makes you wonder what else you could retrofit in here…
There's quite a lot of Hi-Tek doubleshots still out there. What would they be like on adapters, for MX?
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zrrion
- Location: United States
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There's enough room inside the large stem that one could likely fit a ton of adapters into them without any trouble.
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TheInverseKey
- Location: Great White North
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Great find! This one really is a looker!
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Findecanor
- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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Built from custom-extruded aluminium profile? 
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Slom
- Location: land of the rusty beamsprings
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User afan invented a solution for the broken stems last year: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=20317Muirium wrote: ↑18 Jul 2019, 01:04Oh, that's a shame. Those waffle frame switches are never any good. They spoil what is otherwise a decidedly elegant looking board. The case design is very flash, and the caps are stellar.
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JP!
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: Currently a Model M
- Main mouse: Steel Series Sensei
- Favorite switch: Beam Spring
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Thanks for sharing that fix. Looks like an elegant solution.Slom wrote: ↑18 Jul 2019, 05:09User afan invented a solution for the broken stems last year: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=20317Muirium wrote: ↑18 Jul 2019, 01:04Oh, that's a shame. Those waffle frame switches are never any good. They spoil what is otherwise a decidedly elegant looking board. The case design is very flash, and the caps are stellar.