This is my DELL SK-8115.
It has been my main keyboard since 2013.
A little backstory.
A few days ago I was cleaning up my stuff when I saw this. My DELL SK-8115 REV03 keyboard. I have long thought that I have lost this keyboard. It got me through college and was also the keyboard that I used in programming my first social networking site in 2017. I have been through a lot of stuff most of which are bad experiences and I have a few things that gives me peace of mind when the times are bad. Besides my guitar, this keyboard is one of those things. I am a "computer boy" as what people call geeks in my country and I don't go out that much, and this keyboard is what I held on to for most of the hours of the day for many years. Fast forward 2019 I got myself a mechanical keyboard which is a nice keyboard, and this DELL SK-8115 was stored in my old storage closet since then.
As I was cleaning stuff around the house, lo and behold I found my legendary keyboard still in tact and still looks as good as the day I saw it! I immediately plugged it on my PC and started using it! Surprisingly, I still love the tactility of this rubber dome DELL keyboard. I love it so much that I searched and bought 3 more of the same model just so that I could salvage parts when I needed to fix the main one.
On the other hand, now that I have an experience with a mechanical keyboard, I realized that the long keys of this keyboard is not stabilized (besides the spacebar and the right shift key). I then started thinking of ways to add a stabilizer to this one.
After a few days of ruminating, I have come up with a solution that works well. Here is what I did:
Left Shift key
(I used the white flat bendable thing from paper fasteners to hold the stab wire in place)
(I then used a "blank pickguard material" used for making electric guitar pickguards, to create the "hook" for the stabilizer wire)
(here is the shot of the two before attaching)
Shift key Stabilization test
Here is the Enter key:
(stab hook for the enter key)
(enter key with the stab wire)
Here is the backspace
(The backspace stab hook)
(The backspace stab wire)
The stab test for enter and backspace
If you're wondering where I got the stabilizer wires, I got it from the shift key of the 3 extra similar DELL keyboards that I bought
Thank you for reading!