Will the alps plates have alps stab cutouts? Only asking because the alps keysets i use are the signature plastic ones that have cherry stabilizer stems.
His alps plates typically use alps stab cutouts
Yes, I just confirmed with LZ through email, it's gonna be alps stab cutouts....but WHY tho..all the nice newly made alps caps comes with mx stab mount....also no existing vintage set will fit into a physix, you will need to combine multiple sets, good luck finding the right profile/condition/color or else it's gonna look really ugly
I also emailed LZ, and he told me that if everyone who ordered the alps plate was onboard with changing alps stab cutouts to MX stab cutouts, he would be willing to do it.
I might PM all the alps plate people later to see what they think.
I am buying one of these from someone who was ready to give up their spot, and I'm getting an Alps plate, else I'd have just not commented and left everyone to their own devices. Why not inset and/or outset the Alps stabilizer inserts from the MX ones so you can support both alps inserts and MX stabs... that might prove to be impossible with this board (due to where the keycaps end up in relation to the top case piece?), but alps inserts and wires can technically be outset from the edge of the keycap (try not to if it isn't needed tho) as the wire can protrude beyond the edge of the keycap due to the costar insert sticking out below (or the standard Alps keycap insert for that matter) the keycap itself. Maybe a compromise can be made if anyone can work with LZ to check the plate file out for dual compatibility. I think if dual compatibility is not possible I'd personally tend to go toward maximum capability, which means Alps inserts, though if I'm the only holdout I'll vote with the rest of you for consensus even if it limits me to just DCS Alps sets, and the Rare DSA Alps sets.
Serious Question: I care about this subject myself and have previously suggested that Alps only PCBs support an MX screw-in stabilizer for the spacebar. That being said, the only place I usually ever have a hard time eliminating rattle completely is in a spacebar, particularly the 7u variety because the bar is stabilizing so much potential wobble relative to the wire's stability, but on the shorter (even 2.75u) keycaps I never have a problem. Why would we care to do it this way on the PhysiX? We don't have any stabs that you won't be able to get rid of rattle and major wobble on.
Note (#1): There are plenty of vintage alps boards that have 1.25u bottom row mods as someone was talking about being difficult to find, as well as plenty that have all the other makings for this board that can be combined to make a decent looking final keycap set... If you use PBT caps like from 5140 as someone else suggested, yellowing isn't an issue, as they're PBT. This board can, and if it supports them, likely will end up with a vintage set at some point during my ownership; but I'm weird and have a ton of Alps keycaps from harvested boards laying around.
Note (#2): DCS Yuri is also being made... nowhere near as cool IMO as WoB, but more modern Alps sets is news everyone should be excited about.
P.S. Can we get Tai Hao to make 1.5u mods and 7u spacebars for their Alps sets? More available useful sets in this space would be awesome! That and a 1.75u Right Shift coupled with a 1u row4 FN and a 1u numpad zero would be most of the additional compatibility I'd need or care about from them.