Author Topic: Cherry PBT Dye Sub Keyboards on eBay (Read 76234 times)

tsangan · « **Reply #50 on:** Fri, 12 October 2012, 23:09:53 »

Too bad I don't have any lasered ones to do comparison with my dyesubs

I'm actually using a set right now, after using imsto PBT for like 3 weeks, I must say my oh my Cherry knows what they were doing haha these feel AMAZING

ZcHuer · « **Reply #51 on:** Fri, 12 October 2012, 23:43:28 »

The windowed CAPS LOCK just looks lovely. Is it dyesub too?

Elrick · « **Reply #52 on:** Sat, 13 October 2012, 03:56:21 »

Quote from: tsangan on Fri, 12 October 2012, 23:09:53

I'm actually using a set right now, after using imsto PBT for like 3 weeks, I must say my oh my Cherry knows what they were doing haha these feel AMAZING

I still love using the Cherry's off some old G81's. Pity they only did the light Grey's.

ZcHuer · « **Reply #53 on:** Sat, 13 October 2012, 04:19:20 »

Quote from: ZcHuer on Fri, 12 October 2012, 23:43:28

The windowed CAPS LOCK just looks lovely. Is it dyesub too?

Another interesting thing is about the F and J keys, they are not in the normal model of Cherry G80 series or Desko BMOL.

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #54 on:** Sat, 13 October 2012, 07:38:58 »

Right, they have flat F J, no nubs or scoops. All the keys on this set I just got are dyesub, except the red legend delete key which is doubleshot.

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #55 on:** Sat, 13 October 2012, 13:25:52 »

Spotted this NIB G81-3100SFD. Very nice new full dyesub pbt set if you don't mind ISO German layout.

TheQsanity · « **Reply #56 on:** Sat, 13 October 2012, 14:56:40 »

God I love ebay newbs... until a bid war goes on something I want.... Lol.

dorkvader · « **Reply #57 on:** Mon, 15 October 2012, 18:11:13 »

Well, the keycaps arrived. Bad news: they are not Dyesub PBT

http://www.ebay.com/itm/270887084855? (Royal Alpha 700D)

Good news:
Cherry!
Beautiful green doubleshot
Center-stem capslock
Lots of cool names on the keys (I have an "XXX" key now. Who wants it?)

I recommend it to QWERTY lovers!

(Pictures incoming)
http://s92.photobucket.com/albums/l38/dork_vader/Keycaps/

The_Beast · « **Reply #58 on:** Mon, 15 October 2012, 18:15:07 »

I'll take that xxx key ^___^

Sweet caps btw

inlikeflynn · « **Reply #59 on:** Mon, 15 October 2012, 19:47:32 »

Quote from: dorkvader on Mon, 15 October 2012, 18:11:13

Beautiful green doubleshot

Show Image

nice! That green looks great! I will have to keep my eyes out for a set to go on my green cased 1800

TheQsanity · « **Reply #60 on:** Mon, 15 October 2012, 19:53:18 »

how did you know they were cherry compatible?

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #61 on:** Mon, 15 October 2012, 20:02:25 »

Ah, sh!t. That was unexpected to be doubleshots. That's pretty awesome. I love the XXX key too. Everyone should have a dedicated porno key.
How Cherry compatible, because I'm the Cherry xpert son, and I said so.

)

sth · « **Reply #62 on:** Mon, 15 October 2012, 20:02:56 »

beautiful keys.

MMB · « **Reply #63 on:** Mon, 15 October 2012, 20:03:38 »

Quote from: lysol on Mon, 15 October 2012, 20:02:25

Ah, sh!t. That was unexpected to be doubleshots. That's pretty awesome. I love the XXX key too. Everyone should have a dedicated porno key.
How Cherry compatible, because I'm the Cherry xpert son, and I said so. )

What would that key do? Open a specific site, or location on your HDD?

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #64 on:** Mon, 15 October 2012, 20:06:45 »

No, it would summon (insert favorite porn star of the moment here)... LOL.
Oh, and I hope you are not too disappointed that they turned out to be doubleshots instead of dyesub. Sorry I was wrong about that.

TheQsanity · « **Reply #65 on:** Mon, 15 October 2012, 20:12:06 »

Did you do your research or get lucky?

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #66 on:** Mon, 15 October 2012, 20:21:55 »

Research. Dorkvader, did the Alpha come with MY or MX? Just curious since I have one coming myself and trying to plan out if I will have enough of those white linears for some projects.

dorkvader · « **Reply #67 on:** Tue, 16 October 2012, 01:17:58 »

Quote from: lysol on Mon, 15 October 2012, 20:21:55

Research. Dorkvader, did the Alpha come with MY or MX? Just curious since I have one coming myself and trying to plan out if I will have enough of those white linears for some projects.

I got the seller to pull the caps for me, and mail only those at a steep discount (like $15 or $20 max). I'll ask him about the switches.

It's pretty awesome. The only non-doubleshot key is the spacebar. I love green, so this is a good haul.

I got one that Lysol directly linked, but all I really needed to know was that some electric typewriters have cherry-compatible keycaps. I'm getting better at determining them from the profile. Cherry keycaps are really sharp on the edges, and they come to a nice point at the corner.

I'm making a list, but I suspect the satellite 3 and the beta 8000 have Cherry, too. This is just from the pictures, though.

nntnam · « **Reply #68 on:** Tue, 16 October 2012, 01:25:57 »

The beta 8100 is mine

. Waiting for the invoice now

. Thanks lysol for the great information.

BTW, the beta 8000 in ebay was made in Japan. So I think it's ALPS.

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #69 on:** Tue, 16 October 2012, 08:49:56 »

I was just wondering if you saw it in picture if you had the seller take any more before buy the caps. No need to bother them I can just wait another couple days until mine turns up.
If it's not made in West Germany, it very unlikely to be Cherry. Beta 8000 is definitely not Cherry, that caps lock gives it away. Cherry stepped caps lock the high part is 1.25 not 1.5.
The older ones with the sperical keycaps might be something like Cherry M7 switch, but that's just a guess due to the years made before 1985 it can't be MX for sure.

dorkvader · « **Reply #70 on:** Tue, 16 October 2012, 09:18:10 »

I saw the spherical ones: They reminded me of beam spring keycaps: whatever the case, I decided to avoid.

I'm not sure about the 8100 being PBT. In this picture the keys look a little yellowed, which I thought was a more ABS kind of thing:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/261072044335?
http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/1/6/9/5/5/1/8/webimg/591981231_o.jpg
On closer inspection, they are somewhat shiny, so I'm guessing cherry DS now.

It says made in west Germany, and the layout is pretty much identical to mine, so it's a good bet for cherry DS.

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #71 on:** Tue, 16 October 2012, 10:10:24 »

I think that is likely too, is seems to be the same thing except in color. I just wouldn't have guessed for the colored doubleshots. Either way it's some nice keycaps.

leesofi · « **Reply #72 on:** Tue, 16 October 2012, 10:52:21 »

i need green one!! cant find alpha 700..

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #73 on:** Tue, 16 October 2012, 10:58:35 »

Gh'ers probably bought all of them since I posted about these. Keep your eye on ebay, surely someone will list more eventually.
If you're impatient I will trade you green on white for your orange on charcoal

)

leesofi · « **Reply #74 on:** Tue, 16 October 2012, 12:15:39 »

Quote from: lysol on Tue, 16 October 2012, 10:58:35

Gh'ers probably bought all of them since I posted about these. Keep your eye on ebay, surely someone will list more eventually.
If you're impatient I will trade you green on white for your orange on charcoal )

haha!
orange on charoal is in my security bank.

dorkvader · « **Reply #75 on:** Tue, 16 October 2012, 21:24:15 »

Flaunt Flaunt Flaunt

Lysol, do you have any cherry POM that I can replace my SP doubleshot moogle kit with? (all I need is the mods and capslock)

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #76 on:** Wed, 17 October 2012, 10:50:20 »

The only pom set I have presently is on one of those 8113 I am still trying to sell...

samwisekoi · « **Reply #77 on:** Wed, 17 October 2012, 12:56:41 »

Quote from: lysol on Wed, 17 October 2012, 10:50:20

The only pom set I have presently is on one of those 8113 I am still trying to sell...

Didn't someone already take the xxx key off your hands? If not, I'd take it!

- Ron | Samwisekoi

fruktstund · « **Reply #78 on:** Wed, 17 October 2012, 13:18:12 »

Would anyone here happen to know what the likelihood of a TA (Triumph Adler?) Gabriele 7007L having dye sub keys is?
I've scoured all Swedish sites I can think of, and this is the most interesting item I've been able to find. Don't know if it's worth 250SEK (about $40 I think) to try though. <:

Also, it seems there are a lot of Gabrieles over at German eBay. Just thought I'd mention it.

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #79 on:** Wed, 17 October 2012, 13:22:02 »

Gabriele 7007L has blue dyesub, but MY switches. It's the first one I saw that Kurrk posted at DT.

fruktstund · « **Reply #80 on:** Wed, 17 October 2012, 13:49:47 »

Ah, thanks. I thought I'd seen it somewhere! Too bad about the MY switches though.

The Gabriele 100's look a lot like the 7007L's, so I guess one can assume they are pretty much the same (at least when it comes to the keycaps and switches)?

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #81 on:** Wed, 17 October 2012, 14:06:17 »

Hard to say, Spharx bought a 110 and it turned out to be some foam and foil amstrad switch crap. This one looks interesting, it has some cool looking arrows keys.

precarious · « **Reply #82 on:** Wed, 17 October 2012, 16:26:24 »

http://www.totalofficesales.com/catalog/images/typewriter%202%20002.JPG

saw one of those on ebay the other day, called the seller, turned out to not have cherry caps. what did i miss? some of these look really convincing compared to the other sets in this thread which turned out to be compatible. is there any sure way to tell just by looking at them?

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #83 on:** Wed, 17 October 2012, 16:40:28 »

That appears to be Cherry. The person probably had no idea what they were talking about, or possibly didn't even really check it out. Asides from a few minor differences, it is identical to a set I have...

I hope that's not the price though, they are nice typewriters, but damn.

precarious · « **Reply #84 on:** Wed, 17 October 2012, 16:41:23 »

Quote from: lysol on Wed, 17 October 2012, 16:40:28

That appears to be Cherry. The person probably had no idea what they were talking about, or possibly didn't even really check it out. Asides from a few minor differences, it is identical to a set I have...

I hope that's not the price though, they are nice typewriters, but damn.

yeah, i was really confused, i seriously emailed him one of the pictures you took of your dyesub set with the reverse side of the cap, while on the phone with him, so i can't see how he could have not known what i was talking about ;(

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #85 on:** Wed, 17 October 2012, 16:56:36 »

There are some that have almost identical legend font to Cherry, but the corners of the keycap base are rounded not sharp. You can clearly see that the corners are sharp in the photo. I will guess they might not have been willing/able to remove a cap and just said no.

chaosstep · « **Reply #86 on:** Thu, 18 October 2012, 00:21:18 »

OMG what the price lol

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #87 on:** Thu, 18 October 2012, 09:47:04 »

So far I have gotten 1 set for $10, and 2 for $30. Actually whole typewriter for that price shipped... 2 broken, but they had nice MX switch too so still quite a bargain. Still waiting on my Alpha to arrive but really hoping it makes it in tact and working. It's supposedly 'as new' and is supposed to come with several font balls. I think it will be fun to play with. I guess it depend if it's MX or MY on if I will keep it or just steal the caps and get rid of it though.

edit:
My TA Alpha arrived. It turns out to have Cherry M7 switch, which is predecessor to MX. They are quite interesting.

precarious · « **Reply #88 on:** Thu, 18 October 2012, 17:59:21 »

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Royal-Beta-220-electic-typewriter-/130786830435

impulse buy, hopefully i didn't screw this one up

:D:D:D

even if i did, the last time i randomly bought a box of

?? cherry boards things turned out pretty well, so i'll break even at worst

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #89 on:** Thu, 18 October 2012, 23:25:50 »

What a bad photo! I forgot to focus, oh well... Makes me want to go around and take horrible out of focus picture and list it as 'mystery item'. If anyone bought the item I could send them any random thing at all. Brilliant!
You should be good, pretty sure it's the same thing as the Alpha, so will probably have doubleshots not dyesub too, just in blue.

precarious · « **Reply #90 on:** Fri, 19 October 2012, 16:45:44 »

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Royal-Electric-Alpha-600-Typewriter-electric-typewriter-Keyboard-Vintage-/290795427339?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item43b4c2160b

DS or dyesubs? who knows, have at it!

(not necessarily saying it has cherry caps, you'll have to determine that for yourself ^_6--24-j56)

TheQsanity · « **Reply #91 on:** Fri, 19 October 2012, 19:49:25 »

Quote from: precarious on Fri, 19 October 2012, 16:45:44

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Royal-Electric-Alpha-600-Typewriter-electric-typewriter-Keyboard-Vintage-/290795427339?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item43b4c2160b

DS or dyesubs? who knows, have at it!

(not necessarily saying it has cherry caps, you'll have to determine that for yourself ^_6--24-j56)

Shipping is crazzzyyy

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #92 on:** Fri, 19 October 2012, 20:26:28 »

That ones not Cherry, you can tell because of the caps lock (Cherry stepped tall part is 1.25 always) and some other little details.

precarious · « **Reply #93 on:** Fri, 19 October 2012, 21:26:07 »

Quote from: lysol on Fri, 19 October 2012, 20:26:28

That ones not Cherry, you can tell because of the caps lock (Cherry stepped tall part is 1.25 always) and some other little details.

yeah, i saw that and thought it would be pretty cool if it were -- imagining it as some crazy windowed center stemmed cherry caps lock from another dimension

rayuki · « **Reply #94 on:** Fri, 19 October 2012, 22:44:42 »

ahh damn thats the one i just found and was like BINGO.

precarious · « **Reply #95 on:** Tue, 23 October 2012, 13:23:51 »

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Canon-StarWriter-60-Portable-typewriter-vintage-/261117747297

what do those boards usually have for keys? i haven't yet bothered to do any sort of research into the hallowed depths of rare cherry caps, mostly just lazily browsing ebay while doing some work, but i wonder since they keycaps have nice corners i could slash my wrists up with.

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #96 on:** Tue, 23 October 2012, 13:43:55 »

Not really sure. Seen some Cannon with alps before so maybe that. Here one with the keys assembly removed, it's plate so very likely mech of some sort. Since they have it out of the typewriter it might be easier to get them to take some additional pictures, remove caps etc and much cheaper too due to the shipping.

precarious · « **Reply #97 on:** Fri, 02 November 2012, 19:53:18 »

Quote from: precarious on Thu, 18 October 2012, 17:59:21

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Royal-Beta-220-electic-typewriter-/130786830435

impulse buy, hopefully i didn't screw this one up :D:D:D

even if i did, the last time i randomly bought a box of ?? cherry boards things turned out pretty well, so i'll break even at worst

http://imgur.com/a/2VrDJ

some pictures of it there, haven't been able to look at it personally yet since i had it shipped elsewhere, but looks like my blurry photo impulse buy turned out pretty nice

SmallFry · « **Reply #98 on:** Fri, 02 November 2012, 20:10:12 »

Looks very cool! What are those switches like? They don't look like MX or MY's

IvanIvanovich · « **Reply #99 on:** Sat, 03 November 2012, 13:11:33 »

Those are original MY switch. So is it all doubleshots or just the blue keys and the rest is dyesub or?

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Author Topic: Cherry PBT Dye Sub Keyboards on eBay (Read 76234 times)