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Please email me and I can send replacements.
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Making Stuff Together! / Re: AEKII Board Repair
« Last post by jacobolus on Mon, 17 February 2025, 01:44:04 »
It doesn't look like those traces are so damaged that you couldn't figure out some way to patch them back together. You just need a solid electrical connection between the switch pins and the trace. If you look up PCB / trace repair in a web search you can find plenty of sources. You can even just add a little patch wire if you really need.

If you already desoldered everything, in the worst case you could always try to obtain a replacement PCB that fits the same switch layout, which various people have done in the past, e.g. a web search turns up https://github.com/djvs/aek https://github.com/str-dst/aek2_usb. Or you could even hand wire everything on the back; the switches can be held in place sufficiently by the switch plate. Then you can use an alternate keyboard controller, supporting N-key rollover, etc.

Bent switch leads are annoying to desolder, and take a bit more practice and a few times more work than straight leads. Sometimes you have to suck out most of the solder, then get the lead hot enough to unstick / unbend, then finish sucking more solder out in a separate step. A set of dental picks and some small pliers can be helpful. If you do a web search for something like "desolder bent leads" there are probably good sources about this too.
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Keyboards / Re: Alps Switches Sound Tests on 3 keyboards.
« Last post by jacobolus on Mon, 17 February 2025, 01:42:07 »
Nice work. It would be neat if these were shown in some static visual/textual formats in addition to just videos, to make it easier to compare between switches.
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65s aren't really my thing but I really love the side profile and bottom design. GL with the project!
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Random question - I guess I should have researched this ahead of time but my experience with many Model Ms is that the stabilized keys have a plastic insert in the dummy barrel where there is no spring and the stabilizer part of the key resides.  I just got around to setting up my second Model F (an FSSK) and I don't have any of those plastic inserts.  Was this not a feature of the F?

I'm referring to the white insert you can see here - https://i0.wp.com/www.clickykeyboards.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IMG_6878-e1538694109965.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1
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Copper Plate.
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Off Topic / Re: What are you watching? The thread about what you're watching.
« Last post by noisyturtle on Mon, 17 February 2025, 00:04:05 »
"I stole this suit from a guy who pissed on me. I knocked him out and left him in a bush."

That direct quote basically sums up how I felt about Venom: The Last Dance
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Interest Checks / Re: [IC] GMK CYL Shōgun |set renamed - novelty kit updates
« Last post by AerosolFNTM on Sun, 16 February 2025, 23:00:56 »
Really interested in this set hopefully it actually makes it to GB.
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That green looks amazing! Dark Green & Brass is the one.
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Interest Checks / Re: [IC] TORO60 - CWKL/HHKB 60% with Exploded Spacebar (GB IS LIVE)
« Last post by kentdo10 on Sun, 16 February 2025, 20:58:18 »
GB is live at all regional vendors guys. Thank all of you for the support
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