I had an idea, don't know if it has been done before and I am just rehashing but here it goes.
You know those fly-papers that is essentially a sticky surface that catches flies, most commonly in farms where it is a bigger problem. There are kinds either on a roll where you pull it out as it gets filled with flies and the kind like a calendar where you rip a page of every now and again. Both of these could be used with some success to just place keys on to make them stick in a certain layout and not scrape against eachother. This is sort of a replacement to adhesive tape for those of you who use that.
My only concern right now before having tried this is that they might be coated with a sweet substance attract flies which might get on the keys more than just the mild adhesive could and perhaps make them smell.
Thoughts?
Organising keycaps not currently in use
- damorgue
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Posted tin that thread instead, mods may remove this if they want
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What I meant was that the technique was shown to work, as post 1 demonstrates there; just the proposed tool itself was open to debate, i.e., is your fly-paper sticky enough to hold he caps in place, and residue-less enough to not leave your caps in a nasty state. Testing will tell.
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I will never understand why people store cleaned key caps on something which contains glue (and therefore makes the bottoms of them sticky).
This is how I store them:
This is how I store them:
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- Ascaii
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An elegant solution that xbb found....carboard tamplate was created by KBDMANIA, the bags and 2-sided sticky tape were purchased locally in italy:
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Awesome how instead of killing this thread, I managed to make it alive..off wrote:I thougwht i thaw a puddycat!

Probably nothing to do with my posting in this one ofcourse.
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I didn't find it, I saw it from some sixty's picture long agoAscaii wrote:An elegant solution that xbb found....carboard tamplate was created by KBDMANIA, the bags and 2-sided sticky tape were purchased locally in italy:
