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geekhack Marketplace => Great Finds => Topic started by: ekeppel on Fri, 09 February 2018, 10:32:36
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/332549738951
$24.99 plus shipping and more than 10 available. Shipping was pretty high for qty 1 to my location, but perhaps buying in quantity would reduce that.
These have the French AZERTY layout, so maybe not desirable for those who prefer ANSI, but at less than 50 cents a switch, it's not a bad price for new ALPS white switches. I think these should be pine rather than bamboo, but I'm not positive. The seller also has other layouts, including ANSI, at the same price.
https://www.ebay.com/p/Hunter-DFK191U93HB-104-Key-USB-Mechanical-Clicky-Keyboard-PC-Compatible/2229664928
Just passing this on in case anyone needs to stock up on new switches for their own projects.
EDIT: Just for kicks, I added 10 to my cart and found shipping to be a reasonable $75, for an average of about $32.50 a board, shipped. Not bad.
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I'm thinking of harvesting some and selling the extras. What do white alps usually go for?
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*or best offer. Anyone here make an offer yet?
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I'm going to try in a minute. Hopefully I can get it for less than $50
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Are these SKCM White? It looks like it
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Are these SKCM White? It looks like it
According to the second link, these are SKBM White as you can see the simplified contacts. (one on the bottom housing and one on the top in the pictures)
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Are these SKCM White? It looks like it
According to the second link, these are SKBM White as you can see the simplified contacts. (one on the bottom housing and one on the top in the pictures)
Oh, gross. Going to pass then.
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Oh, gross. Going to pass then.
Yeah, I was about to buy one but didn't want to after seeing they were SKBM, would have only done it if they were pines anyway.
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Oh, gross. Going to pass then.
Yeah, I was about to buy one but didn't want to after seeing they were SKBM, would have only done it if they were pines anyway.
Yeah. I'm going to recommend them to some people though. They're better than MX Blue lol.
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I think I like the ISO version better. Never could stand the bigass enter.
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Nice find, if only they were complicated. Everybody goes beserk for blue Alps, but I always really loved the whites. They're getting kind of hard to find in good condition, and for a reasonable price.
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Nice find, if only they were complicated. Everybody goes beserk for blue Alps, but I always really loved the whites. They're getting kind of hard to find in good condition, and for a reasonable price.
I haven't been lucky enough to own a blue alps board, but have owned a few white alps boards. I really do love pine white alps and have been searching for a donor board for quite a while to replace more parts on my omnikey, which has some scratchy switches.
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I really do love pine white alps and have been searching for a donor board for quite a while to replace more parts on my omnikey, which has some scratchy switches.
I just made an $80 offer on one of these (free shipping) and it was accepted. There's one left, so if a little under $.80 a switch for pine white in hopefully clean condition is worth it to you, you can give it a try too.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/182721008117
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I just made an $80 offer on one of these (free shipping) and it was accepted. There's one left, so if a little under $.80 a switch for pine white in hopefully clean condition is worth it to you, you can give it a try too.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/182721008117
Damn you!! Don't tempt me like that...I have something else that I was wanting to buy at the same price and now I can't decide.
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Damn you!! Don't tempt me like that...I have something else that I was wanting to buy at the same price and now I can't decide.
WalletHack strikes again. :D
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I just made an $80 offer on one of these (free shipping) and it was accepted...
Was that a typo? Or did you really offer $80 for a board with a BIN price of $24.99??
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Here's the ANSI version (https://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-Hunter-DFK191U93HB-104-Key-USB-Mechanical-Clicky-Keyboard-PC-Compatible/382376885802) that ekeppel mentioned above:
(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/P94AAOSwmFpZsuwc/s-l1600.jpg)
$24.99 + shipping seems quite reasonable for a NIB board with Alps-style switches, even if they're not vintage.
On the minus side, they have big-ass Enter / 1u Backspace, which I know some of you dislike (but which I always manage to adjust to quickly, go figure).
And they look pad-printed. (However, I have PP'd boards I've been using for years that still look nearly new—probably because I wash my hands before I type. Dirt's abrasive.)
On the plus side, it looks like they have Hebrew sub-legends, which most of my fellow sub-legend geeks and I would consider cool. :thumb:
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I just made an $80 offer on one of these (free shipping) and it was accepted...
Was that a typo? Or did you really offer $80 for a board with a BIN price of $24.99??
The one I linked was a Chicony 5161 with SKCM white Alps in good condition. Seller was asking a pretty ridiculous $149. Sorry for hijacking this thread a bit with that.
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Was that a typo? Or did you really offer $80 for a board with a BIN price of $24.99??
The one I linked was a Chicony 5161 with SKCM white Alps in good condition. Seller was asking a pretty ridiculous $149. Sorry for hijacking this thread a bit with that.
Ah, sorry, I didn't realize you'd added that link... I hought you were referring to the boards we were actually, you know, discussing. Still—and the rest of you should feel free to chime in, if I'm wrong about this—$80 seems a bit steep to me for a Chicony with Alps Whites, even a NIB one (which I gather yours wasn't, quite). I'm just saying.
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$80 seems a bit steep to me for a Chicony with Alps Whites, even a NIB one (which I gather yours wasn't, quite). I'm just saying.
It may be on the steep side. It looks like they've been going used on ebay for around $60-70 lately. Everyone wants to charge much higher amounts for theirs, and to be honest I'm tired of waiting for a clean board with pine whites. I'm planning to use it as a donor for switches into a KBParadise V80. Well, a combination of blue and white switches, using another donor board I have.
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It is a clean one, definitely.