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geekhack Marketplace => Great Finds => Topic started by: WhiteRice on Sun, 12 September 2010, 17:20:21
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170536985471#ht_500wt_1154
BIN $34.99, $8.25 Shipping
I made an offer of $10 and he countered with $19.99. Might be able to talk him down to $15.
He states that there are a few sticky keys(6). I would recommend this board for anyone looking to do a switch swap on a minitouch.
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170536985471#ht_500wt_1154
BIN $34.99, $8.25 Shipping
I made an offer of $10 and he countered with $19.99. Might be able to talk him down to $15.
He states that there are a few sticky keys(6). I would recommend this board for anyone looking to do a switch swap on a minitouch.
Guy seems a bit confused about what the switches are, calling them "BLUE Monterey ALPS sliders". But I guess we're all at least a bit confused about these switches, :wink:. Not as good as a $16 NIB Chicony KB-5181 but that ship seems to have sailed, at least for now. It looks very similar to a KB-5181 layout in fact but the case is a bit different.
And the FCC ID of this keyboard, FKD46AK108, is credited to:
Monterey International Corporation
No.28, Wu-Chun 6 th RD., Wu-Ku Industrial Park
Taipei Hsien, Taiwan
The KB-5181 FCC ID of E8H5IKKB-5181 lists:
Chicony Electronics Co Ltd
No 25, Wu-Gong 6th Road Wu-Ku Industrial Park
Taipei, Taiwan
I wonder if those addresses are a really as close as someone who knows nothing about Taiwan like myself might guess?
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Your guess is as good as mine Texas :)
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You can feed them into Google Earth but I'd say they were next door neighbors. Makes sense - Chicony was a BIG manufacturer - did IBM's later model rubber domes that EIBM likes for example.
You can always ask an Ebay seller to pull a key and take a pic.
Looks like monterey to me
(http://zachwang.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/monterey.jpg)
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They use alps caps, so he's partially right. lol
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I wonder if those addresses are a really as close as someone who knows nothing about Taiwan like myself might guess?
Same Company occupying several allotments of the same industrial complex because one allotment is inadequate.
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Down to $14.99+8.25=$23.24
http://cgi.ebay.com/Clicky-BLUE-Monterey-ALPS-sliders-keyboard-NEEDS-TLC-/170539988776?pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item27b4f9b728#ht_500wt_896
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Ok. Time for local knowledge ;)
There is a spot where Wu-Chun 6 th Rd. and Wu-Gong 6th Road meet at an intersection. So this would be 2 sides of a corner block. And could be the same building. But Taiwan is famous for putting everything the same together. If you have one shop there will be 2 more right next to it. Handy for comparison shopping. They could be up to 2 buildings one way and 3 or 4 buildings the other way apart.
Hope that helps. I wont offer to stop by and look. I don't live in that city any more, I did not like that suburb, I kept getting lost there, and them tec parks are warrens of tiny streets designed to repel whygoren. Boo Yow.
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$140 international shipping in the expired listing, wonder what kind of shipping method it is.......
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FYI, there is a BIN Chicony KB-5181 (http://cgi.ebay.com/Chicony-blue-Monterey-Silders-Clicky-Mechanical-KB-5181-/170547274572?pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs) for $14.99+shipping in my "Box of chocolates" (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?p=228593) post in the ebay section, another source of blue monterey sliders.
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FYI, there is a BIN Chicony KB-5181 (http://cgi.ebay.com/Chicony-blue-Monterey-Silders-Clicky-Mechanical-KB-5181-/170547274572?pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs) for $14.99+shipping in my "Box of chocolates" (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?p=228593) post in the ebay section, another source of blue monterey sliders.
Darn, no international shipping.... *sulk*
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Okay, I'll bite.
What makes this better than the Chicony Monterey keyboard that I got for a song via eBay?
http://cgi.ebay.com/Monterey-K208-Keyboard-FCC-ID-FKD46AK208-DIN-/190451105983
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Okay, I'll bite.
What makes this better than the Chicony Monterey keyboard that I got for a song via eBay?
http://cgi.ebay.com/Monterey-K208-Keyboard-FCC-ID-FKD46AK208-DIN-/190451105983
I'm not 100% sure but will take a shot.
I don't have a Monterey K208 but do have a Chicony KB-5181.
The KB-5181 has these blue switches that are compatible with ALPS key caps. They are light and clicky somewhere between blue cherries and ALPS switches which someone nicknamed "monterey". See this "Chicony KB-5181" review (http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:6128).
As I said, I have no direct experience with the Monterey K208 but per this OCN post (http://www.overclock.net/computer-peripherals/491752-mechanical-keyboard-guide-419.html#post9551584), it's a different switch.
So one is a keyboard actually made by monterey, the other a switch nicknamed that which I'm not sure was made by monterey, perhaps someone who knows can clear that up?
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Another one (http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?p=232304) just showed up.