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Offline Badwrench

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Post your buckling spring board
« on: Tue, 17 September 2013, 00:21:22 »
I have searched and searched for a post your buckling spring board, but found nothing (if you find one, I will close this one, just link it).  I see so many pics floating around a ton of different threads, so I thought it would be nice to have more in one place.   :thumb:

Post the model and date. 



I will start.
I have been looking for a while for one after hearing so many good things about them and finally came across one at Church today. 

My new (to me) 1391401 Model M.  Pretty dirty, but in very good shape overall. 
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wut. i'd buy a ****ty IBM board for that green V2

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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #1 on: Tue, 17 September 2013, 00:27:11 »
Here's my SSK and M65



And here's my favorite board, my model F AT which I modded to have a ANSI enter and backspace

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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #2 on: Tue, 17 September 2013, 00:32:28 »
you have a dirty enter
No, he’s not around. How that sound to ya? Jot it down.

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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #3 on: Tue, 17 September 2013, 01:15:32 »
you have a dirty enter

I know, I replaced it with a blank anyways since the dirty enter didn't have a stabilizer leg that fits into the white inserts and the blank did.
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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #4 on: Tue, 17 September 2013, 03:54:21 »
I really want one for work but they are just so noisy :(
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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #5 on: Tue, 17 September 2013, 13:23:33 »
model 1397599

13 june 1994


found a junker and swapped out the cover (lid) from "blue label" to "black label"- blacked out area next to caps. drilled out LED area and stuck on a label i ordered from unicomp

also put a little insulation, duct tape, etc. behind the steel plate which reduced, space bar pinging, etc.
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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #6 on: Tue, 17 September 2013, 13:25:33 »
Here's my SSK and M65
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And here's my favorite board, my model F AT which I modded to have a ANSI enter and backspace
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nice and sexy........
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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #7 on: Tue, 17 September 2013, 13:30:54 »
I really want one for work but they are just so noisy :(

Floss mod it!



Oh and my BS board? Dorkvader has had it for a while helping me to fix it up but I have a lovely SSK. Pictures are from here. It's on the bottom obviously.




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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #8 on: Thu, 19 September 2013, 10:27:25 »
Unicomp Model M


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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #9 on: Thu, 19 September 2013, 10:43:35 »
Model M in Industrial shell (up for sale now...) and Black M13. Still need to take a picture of my new SSK.


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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #10 on: Thu, 19 September 2013, 12:57:40 »

Insides from Dec '95: great shape, all plastic rivets intact. Case from a terminal keyboard from Jan '87. The keys are from both because the newer one lacked a few.
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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #11 on: Thu, 19 September 2013, 13:26:34 »
Just went though mine and cleaned out the case (and the 6 broken rivet heads).  Board is in great shape.  Caps have no shine as the dirt was protecting them quite well.  There was quite a bit of chow on the board, and a bunch of sticky stuff, but it all came off and now the board feels new. 

Ordered up a few caps from Unicomp to brighten it up a bit.

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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #12 on: Thu, 19 September 2013, 13:57:04 »
Model M 122 key, version with square label and some hat keys.





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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #13 on: Thu, 19 September 2013, 23:26:45 »
Just went though mine and cleaned out the case (and the 6 broken rivet heads).  Board is in great shape.  Caps have no shine as the dirt was protecting them quite well.  There was quite a bit of chow on the board, and a bunch of sticky stuff, but it all came off and now the board feels new. 

Ordered up a few caps from Unicomp to brighten it up a bit.

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Nice pics, that's one good looking Model M. I'd like to clean mine out but all my nut drivers are too big to fit into the tiny holes. Keycap cleaning will have to suffice for now.
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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #14 on: Fri, 20 September 2013, 01:18:39 »
Just went though mine and cleaned out the case (and the 6 broken rivet heads).  Board is in great shape.  Caps have no shine as the dirt was protecting them quite well.  There was quite a bit of chow on the board, and a bunch of sticky stuff, but it all came off and now the board feels new. 

Ordered up a few caps from Unicomp to brighten it up a bit.

(Attachment Link)

(Attachment Link)

Nice pics, that's one good looking Model M. I'd like to clean mine out but all my nut drivers are too big to fit into the tiny holes. Keycap cleaning will have to suffice for now.

Thanks.  All of my sockets were too big as well.  I just took one to a grinder to allow it to fit.  You don't need a lot of strength in the socket, so you can get it pretty thin. 
wut. i'd buy a ****ty IBM board for that green V2

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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #15 on: Fri, 20 September 2013, 01:22:29 »
Just went though mine and cleaned out the case (and the 6 broken rivet heads).  Board is in great shape.  Caps have no shine as the dirt was protecting them quite well.  There was quite a bit of chow on the board, and a bunch of sticky stuff, but it all came off and now the board feels new. 

Ordered up a few caps from Unicomp to brighten it up a bit.

(Attachment Link)

(Attachment Link)

Nice pics, that's one good looking Model M. I'd like to clean mine out but all my nut drivers are too big to fit into the tiny holes. Keycap cleaning will have to suffice for now.

Thanks.  All of my sockets were too big as well.  I just took one to a grinder to allow it to fit.  You don't need a lot of strength in the socket, so you can get it pretty thin. 

I bought a socket driver from eBay, from China.  A set of 4 was about $16.
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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #16 on: Fri, 20 September 2013, 01:53:05 »
Just went though mine and cleaned out the case (and the 6 broken rivet heads).  Board is in great shape.  Caps have no shine as the dirt was protecting them quite well.  There was quite a bit of chow on the board, and a bunch of sticky stuff, but it all came off and now the board feels new. 

Ordered up a few caps from Unicomp to brighten it up a bit.

(Attachment Link)

(Attachment Link)

Nice pics, that's one good looking Model M. I'd like to clean mine out but all my nut drivers are too big to fit into the tiny holes. Keycap cleaning will have to suffice for now.

Thanks.  All of my sockets were too big as well.  I just took one to a grinder to allow it to fit.  You don't need a lot of strength in the socket, so you can get it pretty thin.

I'll give that a try.

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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #17 on: Fri, 20 September 2013, 01:59:03 »
Just went though mine and cleaned out the case (and the 6 broken rivet heads).  Board is in great shape.  Caps have no shine as the dirt was protecting them quite well.  There was quite a bit of chow on the board, and a bunch of sticky stuff, but it all came off and now the board feels new. 

Ordered up a few caps from Unicomp to brighten it up a bit.

(Attachment Link)

(Attachment Link)

Nice pics, that's one good looking Model M. I'd like to clean mine out but all my nut drivers are too big to fit into the tiny holes. Keycap cleaning will have to suffice for now.

Thanks.  All of my sockets were too big as well.  I just took one to a grinder to allow it to fit.  You don't need a lot of strength in the socket, so you can get it pretty thin.

I'll give that a try.

Or if you are not too impatient, get this from eBay - $5.41 with free shipping.

I got this one - a set of 4 for about $14.
"Because keyboards are accessories to PC makers, they focus on minimizing the manufacturing costs. But that’s incorrect. It’s in HHKB’s slogan, but when America’s cowboys were in the middle of a trip and their horse died, they would leave the horse there. But even if they were in the middle of a desert, they would take their saddle with them. The horse was a consumable good, but the saddle was an interface that their bodies had gotten used to. In the same vein, PCs are consumable goods, while keyboards are important interfaces." - Eiiti Wada

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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #18 on: Fri, 20 September 2013, 07:47:39 »
Wanted to try something different with my ssk. Its a combination of blank black and blank pebble keys.
Only a crappy pic, looks way better in real. Now I need a black BS clickclack  ;D

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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #19 on: Fri, 20 September 2013, 07:53:12 »
Wanted to try something different with my ssk. Its a combination of blank black and blank pebble keys.
Only a crappy pic, looks way better in real. Now I need a black BS clickclack  ;D

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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #20 on: Fri, 20 September 2013, 07:54:23 »
ITT: Lots and lots of vanilla Model Ms

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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #21 on: Fri, 20 September 2013, 08:35:17 »
Mine differs in that it's a vanilla Lexmark Model M.....in almost mint condition, the three LED indicators aren't working, will look into that when I'm in the mood...

It's date of 'birth', so to say.... ;)

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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #22 on: Fri, 20 September 2013, 09:24:11 »
My model M
IBM 42H1292
Date: 29-04-1997

I dyed the caps into (kinda) retro style with dylon dye
and painted the frame white



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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #23 on: Fri, 20 September 2013, 10:31:24 »
Wanted to try something different with my ssk. Its a combination of blank black and blank pebble keys.
Only a crappy pic, looks way better in real. Now I need a black BS clickclack  ;D

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Get the blank pebble keys by sanding?  Looks very nice.
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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #24 on: Fri, 20 September 2013, 10:39:24 »
Wanted to try something different with my ssk. Its a combination of blank black and blank pebble keys.
Only a crappy pic, looks way better in real. Now I need a black BS clickclack  ;D

(Attachment Link)

Get the blank pebble keys by sanding?  Looks very nice.

no, I ordered a blank set at unicomp in complete pebble. normally its a combination of pebble and pearl. And mixed this up with a blank black set. I tried to make a good picture, but failed. Pebble is the color that normally only the modifiers have. It now looks very military in real. :)

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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #25 on: Fri, 20 September 2013, 12:02:36 »
Just went though mine and cleaned out the case (and the 6 broken rivet heads).  Board is in great shape.  Caps have no shine as the dirt was protecting them quite well.  There was quite a bit of chow on the board, and a bunch of sticky stuff, but it all came off and now the board feels new. 

Ordered up a few caps from Unicomp to brighten it up a bit.

(Attachment Link)

(Attachment Link)

Nice pics, that's one good looking Model M. I'd like to clean mine out but all my nut drivers are too big to fit into the tiny holes. Keycap cleaning will have to suffice for now.

Thanks.  All of my sockets were too big as well.  I just took one to a grinder to allow it to fit.  You don't need a lot of strength in the socket, so you can get it pretty thin.

I'll give that a try.

Or if you are not too impatient, get this from eBay - $5.41 with free shipping.

I got this one - a set of 4 for about $14.

Thanks, if filing down the one I currently have doesn't work I'll get one of those.

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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #26 on: Fri, 20 September 2013, 14:16:38 »
Just went though mine and cleaned out the case (and the 6 broken rivet heads).  Board is in great shape.  Caps have no shine as the dirt was protecting them quite well.  There was quite a bit of chow on the board, and a bunch of sticky stuff, but it all came off and now the board feels new. 

Ordered up a few caps from Unicomp to brighten it up a bit.

(Attachment Link)

(Attachment Link)

Nice pics, that's one good looking Model M. I'd like to clean mine out but all my nut drivers are too big to fit into the tiny holes. Keycap cleaning will have to suffice for now.

Thanks.  All of my sockets were too big as well.  I just took one to a grinder to allow it to fit.  You don't need a lot of strength in the socket, so you can get it pretty thin.

I'll give that a try.

Or if you are not too impatient, get this from eBay - $5.41 with free shipping.

I got this one - a set of 4 for about $14.

Thanks, if filing down the one I currently have doesn't work I'll get one of those.

Here is how mine turned out.  I used and extension to hold it and took it to a floor mounted 6" grinding wheel.  Took about 30 seconds. 
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wut. i'd buy a ****ty IBM board for that green V2

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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #27 on: Fri, 20 September 2013, 19:21:56 »
got 20 IBM's, but here is a pic of few
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When you bottom out dong cap... is it going balls deep?

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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #28 on: Fri, 20 September 2013, 19:25:18 »
got 20 IBM's, but here is a pic of few

Very cool! I've never seen an industrial with the trackpoint before!
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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #29 on: Fri, 20 September 2013, 19:33:29 »
got 20 IBM's, but here is a pic of few

Those are awesome.  I am a bit late to the game, but am enjoying mine immensely.  I actually quite like playing SC2 with it.

Just added some RGB and a couple custom caps from Unicomp.
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wut. i'd buy a ****ty IBM board for that green V2

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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #30 on: Fri, 20 September 2013, 21:22:43 »
Im so jelly of all your IBM Spacesavers

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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #31 on: Mon, 23 September 2013, 16:11:56 »


This is my 121 key model M.   Obviously it began life as a 122 key keyboard, but I modified the layout of the numpad to include a more modern double sized plus key.

It is a terminal keyboard model number 1394324.  Knicker shot...



I bolt modded it so that I could renew some slightly slack springs and change the layout.  Unfortunately the space bar is misbehaving after the bolt mod so I will have to undo the bolts and try again to get it all seated correctly.  Apart from the misbehaving spacebar it is a really cool keyboard to type on.  All the springs are as good as new. 

The Keycaps are a mixture of the original set and a UK layout 101 key set from Unicomp.  The layout on the terminal keyboard was not what I was used to.  I chose to keep the simplest of the keycaps for as clean a look as possible.  The Lettered function keys open Windows Applications such as Exporer, Outlook and One Note.  The Geekhack functions as a windows key.  The Num Lock has been removed and instead now opens a calculator.

Conversion to USB is handled by Soarers mod. 

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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #32 on: Fri, 27 September 2013, 04:33:31 »
Daily Drivers...

Buckling Spring @ Work



Buckling Spring @ Home

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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #33 on: Fri, 27 September 2013, 06:06:30 »
Daily Drivers...

Buckling Spring @ Work

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Dr Pepper in QLD eh?  There are very few places that sill sell it in VIC.
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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #34 on: Fri, 27 September 2013, 06:32:03 »
Coles and Woolies actually sell it. It's coming back!

For those of you outside of Australia, Dr Pepper came and went years ago...
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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #35 on: Sat, 28 September 2013, 03:06:26 »
Coles and Woolies actually sell it. It's coming back!

For those of you outside of Australia, Dr Pepper came and went years ago...

Now if only Jolt would come back too ;)
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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #36 on: Sat, 28 September 2013, 08:14:22 »
Internals from an iso '86 M in a new industrial shell. Most of its time only in a box, cause I think its to big for my desk. And I prefer to buckle springs on my ssk.

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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #37 on: Sat, 28 September 2013, 08:16:39 »
Internals from an iso '86 M in a new industrial shell. Most of its time only in a box, cause I think its to big for my desk. And I prefer to buckle springs on my ssk.

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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #38 on: Fri, 18 October 2013, 14:22:40 »
How did I miss this thread?  ;)

I haven't used anything else since I got it working.

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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #39 on: Fri, 18 October 2013, 16:56:31 »
How did I miss this thread?  ;)

I haven't used anything else since I got it working.

Nice! Maybe unprinted caps as modifiers would look better. Or do you have plans to get the modifiers also in metal?

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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #40 on: Fri, 18 October 2013, 17:27:12 »
How did I miss this thread?  ;)

I haven't used anything else since I got it working.

Nice! Maybe unprinted caps as modifiers would look better. Or do you have plans to get the modifiers also in metal?

Yeah blanks on the modifiers would look better. I've just been lazy to do it. Sadly no the person who made the keys is not doing anymore anytime soon. I doubt it he will ever do the mods in metal either.

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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #41 on: Sat, 19 October 2013, 04:15:24 »
If you do the spacebar mod, you could also use a set of unprinted black keycaps. I think this would look also very good in combination with the metal keys and one of the rwb clacks :D

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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #42 on: Mon, 28 October 2013, 19:40:32 »
Had to throw this in here too just because I'm so excited about it :P:

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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #43 on: Sat, 01 November 2014, 11:03:27 »
Here is a little project I've been working on. A Unicomp 122 chopped down past an unsaver (chopped unsaver? =)). Big thanks to wcass, I pretty much copied his original idea and build. Also want to thank Dorkvader for his helpful troublehooting advice during my first bolt mod.

Not all the keys are working yet, I think I damaged some of the contacts on the membrane sheet so I'll be on the hunt for replacement membrane sheet. Once I swap it, it should be 100% functional. For now, it's just a shelf queen, lol.


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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #44 on: Sat, 01 November 2014, 11:08:36 »
Congrats on finding this old thread ;D

Also nice board and funny color :)

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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #45 on: Sat, 01 November 2014, 11:59:49 »
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Damn, for a second I thought wcass sold you one of his custom boards. That's really awesome. Hope you post more pictures or a build log or a typing test video when it's finished :D.

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« Reply #46 on: Sat, 01 November 2014, 22:04:59 »
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Damn, for a second I thought wcass sold you one of his custom boards. That's really awesome. Hope you post more pictures or a build log or a typing test video when it's finished :D.

That is awesome.  As the CPT said, more pictures please. 
wut. i'd buy a ****ty IBM board for that green V2

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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #47 on: Sun, 02 November 2014, 01:13:10 »
Why did I **** up that Backspace?  And crappy phone photo.



Overall, it turned out better than I thought. The stabilized keys are all wonky and I'm trying to fix them, but otherwise it turned out well.  The case was hard to dye since I couldn't exactly fit it in the pot.  I had to pour the dye and hot water into another container and refresh it with hot water from time to time to keep it warm.  It took me about 6 hours to get it this color and it could have benefited from longer.  In either case, it didn't turn out poorly.

Oh, for reference, it's Black, Red, and Crimson iDye Poly.

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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #48 on: Sun, 02 November 2014, 01:36:21 »
Why did I **** up that Backspace?  And crappy phone photo.

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Overall, it turned out better than I thought. The stabilized keys are all wonky and I'm trying to fix them, but otherwise it turned out well.  The case was hard to dye since I couldn't exactly fit it in the pot.  I had to pour the dye and hot water into another container and refresh it with hot water from time to time to keep it warm.  It took me about 6 hours to get it this color and it could have benefited from longer.  In either case, it didn't turn out poorly.

Oh, for reference, it's Black, Red, and Crimson iDye Poly.

Looks like it turned out well! More pictures needed!  :p

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Re: Post your buckling spring board
« Reply #49 on: Sun, 02 November 2014, 18:13:05 »