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geekhack Community => Keyboard Keycaps => Topic started by: geekmonkey on Sun, 03 March 2019, 08:00:15
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I'm about to buy the pieces to build an ortholinear board (my first, both building & ortholinear), finalizing decisions and all. But the PCB I'm getting is all, well, linear. No possibility of having any keys off-center at all, it's designed 100% in straight rows of solely 1u spots. But I really want at the very least one 2u (or maybe 3u?) keycap for a space bar (or two). But in my experience, 2u caps come with the ...socket? in the middle where the switch is located off-center with a stabilizer, not made for fitting on top of two switches. Are there 2u & 3u keycaps that can fit properly over two & three switches? If so, please point me in the direction where I can find them? Thanks!
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Do a google search for POS Keycaps.
Probably they are also on
https://pimpmykeyboard.com/
You can change the springs of the switches to make the actuation lighter. For example you can look for "sprit" springs (ebay and his own site, and many more places).
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Do a google search for POS Keycaps.
Aha, POS, thanks! That will definitely help my search. :)
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If you don't mind crazy legends/colours I probably have a couple somewhere, international shipping from PMK will cost way more than the caps.
Edit: Stopped being lazy and went for a look. Colours are really bad but those are two yellow, dark grey, orange and red with doubleshot legends. The white dot on the red is real not dust and there's a slight darkening in the O on the orange one as these are caps from a grab bag.
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If you don't mind crazy legends/colours I probably have a couple somewhere, international shipping from PMK will cost way more than the caps.
Haha, I may take you up on it, depending what I'm able to find. Will let you know if need to resort to crazy caps. ;)
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When spanning 2 switches with a 2u pos cap I've found it best to use a very light spring in one of the switches,otherwise they are very hard to press,I use a MX Black that I managed to tear a pin off when I desoldered it, and I cut the spring down by a third so it makes a great stabilizer,if you try it without a spring the slider tends to bind on both up and downstroke.
Also very important,make sure one the switches is KC_SPACE and the other KC_NULL,if you KC_SPACE both you will get 2 spaces on every keystroke.
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When spanning 2 switches with a 2u pos cap I've found it best to use a very light spring in one of the switches,otherwise they are very hard to press,I use a MX Black that I managed to tear a pin off when I desoldered it, and I cut the spring down by a third so it makes a great stabilizer,if you try it without a spring the slider tends to bind on both up and downstroke.
Also very important,make sure one the switches is KC_SPACE and the other KC_NULL,if you KC_SPACE both you will get 2 spaces on every keystroke.
Makes sense, thanks for the tips! :)
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If you did not find any in EU pm me, I have some blank DSA 2u's and also some funky ones :)
From this pic : https://imgur.com/bU9YWgF these are gone: https://imgur.com/xoka5BH
Also have these: https://imgur.com/SVz5aOk (Red Problem is gone)
Cheers