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Title: Delays Delays
Post by: Bruce on Wed, 20 January 2010, 07:07:56
An apology to those of you waiting for Filco 105 key UK Majestouch keyboards. They have been in the UK for a week now but the port closed last week due to it being frozen and we are hoping to get them out of the backlog any time now.
Comments on how poor we are in the UK at dealing with a few inches of snow welcome!!
There will be a Yipppeeeee! post from me on here the moment these come through the door of our stores.
Title: Delays Delays
Post by: rdjack21 on Wed, 20 January 2010, 09:27:30
Man where I'm at if it looks like it will snow the whole city shuts down. And to be honest that is for the best because the drivers here have no clue how to drive in snow. The last time we had a little ice on the roads here there was a 20+ car pile up on one of the overpasses.
Title: Delays Delays
Post by: itlnstln on Wed, 20 January 2010, 09:35:07
Quote from: rdjack21;152281
Man where I'm at if it looks like it will snow the whole city shuts down. And to be honest that is for the best because the drivers here have no clue how to drive in snow. The last time we had a little ice on the roads here there was a 20+ car pile up on one of the overpasses.

That's the truth.  Hell, San Antonio just about shuts down when there is a little rain.  I love watching the natives freak out when there is a little rain or cool weather.  I also love watching the testosterone-jacked-up hicks in their gigatisaurus F350s sitting 40" off the ground doing 90 in pouring rain about to murder us all.
Title: Delays Delays
Post by: rdjack21 on Wed, 20 January 2010, 09:57:19
Hey I resemble that :) Not really but I do drive a truck (Honda Ridgeline) but it is not a jacked up bubba truck but still quite capable of handling most stuff I would ever run across.
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Post by: ch_123 on Wed, 20 January 2010, 19:10:57
We had some terrible snow in Ireland for the two weeks after during and after New Year's. There was a space of about a week where I didn't even leave the house because it was too slippery to do so.
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Post by: Ziemas on Thu, 21 January 2010, 09:04:47
Will there be blank keycaps available for the UK version?
Title: Delays Delays
Post by: Bruce on Thu, 21 January 2010, 09:25:08
Hi Ziemas.
Welcome to Geekhack.
Yes, 105 blank keysets are ordered. ETA is March.
Title: Delays Delays
Post by: itlnstln on Thu, 21 January 2010, 09:27:39
Bruce, are you going to be getting any Cherry-made blank caps for the G80-3000? If so, will they be ANSI (104) or ISO (105)? Thanks!
Title: Delays Delays
Post by: Ziemas on Thu, 21 January 2010, 09:55:51
Quote from: Bruce;152686
Hi Ziemas.
Welcome to Geekhack.
Yes, 105 blank keysets are ordered. ETA is March.


Thanks for the welcome. :)

Great to hear that you will have them. I'm probably going to order a UK Filco as soon as you get them.
Title: Delays Delays
Post by: Bruce on Thu, 21 January 2010, 10:16:18
itlnstln
Probably not now.
I was planning to but it is so complicated putting full sets together, and costly. We have now got the full 105 ISO keyboard in stock with blanks and they're well priced. Here's a picture:-
Title: Delays Delays
Post by: itlnstln on Thu, 21 January 2010, 10:47:38
They are well-priced.  Unfortunately, the layout kills it for me.  Thanks, Bruce, for all your help.
 
 
 
 
 
*Grumble* We need a good US distributor *Grumble*
Title: Delays Delays
Post by: Bruce on Mon, 25 January 2010, 13:38:55
Cherry MX3000 in an ANSI 104 Blank Black set up. Black switches??
I ordered a batch today, will be in around March 25th. No obligation, but you said you wanted it!
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Post by: itlnstln on Mon, 25 January 2010, 13:45:39
Black switches, or Blue/Brown?  I am not sure how many takers you'll have on black switches.  I'll get one for the blank caps, and sell it with caps from my brown-based 'board if it has black switches.
 
Or make a Cherry "red" 'board.
Title: Delays Delays
Post by: Bruce on Mon, 25 January 2010, 13:59:53
I'll be able to confirm that later. I suspect blacks.
Like you say, the main deal is in the keytops, swapping them onto other 104 Cherry boards is easy enough.
Edit1
Yes, it's blacks. And they should only be a few weeks.
Title: Delays Delays
Post by: Ziemas on Sun, 28 March 2010, 18:15:37
Quote from: Bruce;152686
Hi Ziemas.
Welcome to Geekhack.
Yes, 105 blank keysets are ordered. ETA is March.


Any news on the blank keys?
Title: Delays Delays
Post by: Bruce on Mon, 29 March 2010, 06:14:17
Hi Ziemas.
Is looking like late April now.
I am sorry. We're keeping them very busy.

Bruce
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Post by: trievalot on Mon, 29 March 2010, 06:35:45
Quote from: itlnstln;153633
Black switches, or Blue/Brown?  I am not sure how many takers you'll have on black switches.  I'll get one for the blank caps, and sell it with caps from my brown-based 'board if it has black switches.
 
Or make a Cherry "red" 'board.


stoopid question.....how is this a red board???
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Post by: itlnstln on Mon, 29 March 2010, 06:45:30
It's not.  I was talking about doing a switch-swap (black stem + brown spring = "red").
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Post by: trievalot on Mon, 29 March 2010, 15:55:28
ahhhhhh, coz the reds have the resistance of a brown and are linear.
im getting the hang of this.