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Offline FinancialWar

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clear and blank?
« on: Tue, 18 November 2014, 05:55:33 »
Are there any 100% transparent/clear and blank key caps on the market?
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Re: clear and blank?
« Reply #2 on: Tue, 18 November 2014, 06:57:28 »
Will these fit Filco 104?
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Re: clear and blank?
« Reply #3 on: Tue, 18 November 2014, 08:33:08 »
Yep!

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Re: clear and blank?
« Reply #4 on: Tue, 18 November 2014, 08:35:06 »
I want to know how they made that spacebar fit on that CM TK, I have a TK and I have SP space bars, and the SP space bars do not fit on my TK :(
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Re: clear and blank?
« Reply #5 on: Tue, 18 November 2014, 08:40:12 »
"Full sets include all keycaps for a standard 104 ANSI layout"

So if your Filco 104 is standard layout (which it is), then yes...  The extra 13 key set is for other layouts like WinKeyless, etc.
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Re: clear and blank?
« Reply #6 on: Tue, 18 November 2014, 08:42:32 »
I want to know how they made that spacebar fit on that CM TK, I have a TK and I have SP space bars, and the SP space bars do not fit on my TK :(

They didn't... They stuffed a standard 6.25x spacebar onto the spacebar switch without the stabilisers installed. You can see the stabilisers don't line up with the stem mounts. No idea why they'd use a TK for the product shots, since it doesn't actually fit on one.
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Re: clear and blank?
« Reply #7 on: Tue, 18 November 2014, 10:07:52 »
I want to know how they made that spacebar fit on that CM TK, I have a TK and I have SP space bars, and the SP space bars do not fit on my TK :(

They didn't... They stuffed a standard 6.25x spacebar onto the spacebar switch without the stabilisers installed. You can see the stabilisers don't line up with the stem mounts. No idea why they'd use a TK for the product shots, since it doesn't actually fit on one.

I thought I could see that, thanks for the confirmation :)

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Re: clear and blank?
« Reply #8 on: Tue, 18 November 2014, 13:15:19 »
On the red and blue pictures you can also see a fair sized gap between space and Alt on each side.
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Re: clear and blank?
« Reply #9 on: Mon, 24 November 2014, 21:37:11 »
Are there any 100% transparent/clear and blank key caps on the market?

You can try the following:

banggood
max keyboard
x-keys (relegendables; they work real well too)
Most of the modding can be done on your own once you break through the psychological barriers.

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Re: clear and blank?
« Reply #10 on: Fri, 28 November 2014, 21:11:04 »
Thanks Gutz for the xkeys suggestion - much cheaper option there compared to SP; relegendable too).
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Re: clear and blank?
« Reply #11 on: Sat, 29 November 2014, 02:32:10 »
Thanks Gutz for the xkeys suggestion - much cheaper option there compared to SP; relegendable too).

If I find something I like I always talk about it. 

In fact if you want to see how xkeys look in real life just look at my keycaps emporium thread, since I had xkeys that I stuck printed paper inside and taped to a board to mark out the rows and columns!
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