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Offline orihalcon

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Blue Alps:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/171994965970

Yellow or Green Linears (My white label Zenith is yellow):
http://www.ebay.com/itm/262137894606

Both look quite used, but there's a good chance that they work well.  Can always take apart the switches and clean if needed especially if transplanting into a different board.  Caps are kind of cool on the blue alps one, just too bad they are yellowed.

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Re: Blue Alps and Yellow Alps Boards on eBay BIN $105 Shipped and $70 Shipped
« Reply #1 on: Tue, 10 November 2015, 21:25:29 »
Can anyone verify the authenticity of the blue Alps here?

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Re: Blue Alps and Yellow Alps Boards on eBay BIN $105 Shipped and $70 Shipped
« Reply #2 on: Tue, 10 November 2015, 21:29:40 »


Looks like SKCM Blue Alps from this picture.

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Re: Blue Alps and Yellow Alps Boards on eBay BIN $105 Shipped and $70 Shipped
« Reply #3 on: Tue, 10 November 2015, 21:56:43 »
Someone bought it. I offered $75 but I guess someone wanted it more.

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Re: Blue Alps and Yellow Alps Boards on eBay BIN $105 Shipped and $70 Shipped
« Reply #4 on: Tue, 10 November 2015, 22:42:12 »
Someone bought it. I offered $75 but I guess someone wanted it more.

That was me, i just had to buy it lol. Going to install the switches into a KBP V80.

Thank you so much OP  :D

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Re: Blue Alps and Yellow Alps Boards on eBay BIN $105 Shipped and $70 Shipped
« Reply #5 on: Tue, 10 November 2015, 22:52:23 »
I almost pulled the trigger on the blue Alps board, until I realized that I really like the Quiet Clicks in my new KBP V80. They feel a lot like MX clears to me, but maybe smoother. I'll probably be building all my Alps projects with those.
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Re: Blue Alps and Yellow Alps Boards on eBay BIN $105 Shipped and $70 Shipped
« Reply #6 on: Tue, 10 November 2015, 23:20:14 »
Someone bought it. I offered $75 but I guess someone wanted it more.

That was me, i just had to buy it lol. Going to install the switches into a KBP V80.

Thank you so much OP  :D
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Re: Blue Alps and Yellow Alps Boards on eBay BIN $105 Shipped and $70 Shipped
« Reply #7 on: Wed, 11 November 2015, 03:17:20 »
So a 5161 eh? Are you sure you might want to disassemble that? It might have NKRO :p .
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Re: Blue Alps and Yellow Alps Boards on eBay BIN $105 Shipped and $70 Shipped
« Reply #8 on: Wed, 11 November 2015, 04:42:46 »
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Thanks, sorry lol, had to buy it, especially since im going to try and clean those keycaps good and use what will work. Cyrillic keycaps are my absolute favorite.

So a 5161 eh? Are you sure you might want to disassemble that? It might have NKRO :p .
Will 100% disassemble it and install the switches into a KBP V80 :), the board itself probably needs to be cleaned a lot, and i dont have any adapters to use it.  It would also take up a lot of space on my desk.

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Re: Blue Alps and Yellow Alps Boards on eBay BIN $105 Shipped and $70 Shipped
« Reply #9 on: Wed, 11 November 2015, 12:39:33 »
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Thanks, sorry lol, had to buy it, especially since im going to try and clean those keycaps good and use what will work. Cyrillic keycaps are my absolute favorite.

So a 5161 eh? Are you sure you might want to disassemble that? It might have NKRO :p .
Will 100% disassemble it and install the switches into a KBP V80 :), the board itself probably needs to be cleaned a lot, and i dont have any adapters to use it.  It would also take up a lot of space on my desk.

I will take whats left of the board when you are done. Such a nice board deserves a decent fate. I'll even desolder for you if you like. I have proper desoldering gun. 
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Re: Blue Alps and Yellow Alps Boards on eBay BIN $105 Shipped and $70 Shipped
« Reply #10 on: Wed, 11 November 2015, 17:41:38 »
Someone bought it. I offered $75 but I guess someone wanted it more.

That was me, i just had to buy it lol. Going to install the switches into a KBP V80.

Thank you so much OP  :D

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Re: Blue Alps and Yellow Alps Boards on eBay BIN $105 Shipped and $70 Shipped
« Reply #11 on: Thu, 12 November 2015, 03:12:05 »
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Re: Blue Alps and Yellow Alps Boards on eBay BIN $105 Shipped and $70 Shipped
« Reply #12 on: Thu, 12 November 2015, 06:36:36 »
I will take whats left of the board when you are done. Such a nice board deserves a decent fate. I'll even desolder for you if you like. I have proper desoldering gun. 
Sure thats fine it will be empty though, ill be removing all the switches and keeping the keycaps. I purchased a desoldering gun two weeks ago, i would never want to desolder a board without it,i appreciate the offer.  I have an empty Zenith Z-150 sitting around if your interested in that also.

I'll buy those caps from you if you don't want them.
Sorry im going to use them on my next board once they get cleaned up.
« Last Edit: Thu, 12 November 2015, 08:33:49 by itzmeluigi »