[ALPS] making a plate for acer stabilizers .

[azhdar]

So I'm in possession an hasu 60% and an acer board.



As alps expert would know the stabilizers on this keyboard are specific:

they are fixed into the keycaps






and slide into those "plastic bits" on the keyboard :



So the question is how do I make a plates for those stabilizers?
Should I just try to replicate those "plastic bits" into a metal plate?
Maybe cut the of the keyboard and fix them onto a "regular" plate?
Find a work around and using regular alps switches ?

I'm all hear alps expert, this is my first time working with alps.

THis is the layout I want to produce:

[suicidal_orange]

I'm no alps expert but it looks like the 'plastic bits' are raised above the plate?  You could get creative and cut some slits and try to bend them into position, but plates are stiff by design so that won't be easy.

 If it were me I would leave the plate solid and build clips out of epoxy or polymorph and glue them on, the originals don't have enough contact area to attach securely.  Would probably be easier to make a small box shape (flat bottom being most important) then file out the slots where the wire goes, looks you have plenty of height and space towards the middle of the cap so you can get a good size contact area.

[MrNips]

Any luck on this project? I'm in the same boat. I'm about to get a plate cut that will fit the Acer (datageneral) 6312-k. It appears to be the same in terms of stab layout and plastic stabilizing poles in the caps.

I have put z-150 stabs into the 6312 caps and they do not work, they are longer (width wise) and you cannot depress the switch all the way.
I was thinking about just dremeling off the support poles, or whatever the term for the plastic supports are, and just relying on the stab wires to do the heavy lifting.

[azhdar]

No, I never went through with it