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geekhack Marketplace => Classifieds => Topic started by: Xyxyll on Fri, 08 July 2011, 18:11:17
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I'm a mechanical engineer in the product design industry, and I recently picked up my first Filco (TKL with MX-Browns). I'm very pleased with it, but I understand there is a widespread pinging issue with some of the other more recent keyboards. This is an intimidating and frustrating user experience failure for many, but I believe I have a fix for The Keyboard Co. or an end user that will recondition a pinging keyboard back to a reasonable noise level. The problem is I haven't actually experienced the pinging on my keyboard.
Let me take your super pingy keyboard. Selfishly I would prefer pingy MX-Blues (haven't tried them yet), but truthfully anything pinging should satisfy this experiment.
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Buy a used ABS M1 or just about any other ALPS Simplified Type 1s. They ping like you wouldn't believe.
Charlie's right.
I bought a new ABS M1 when they were blowing them out and have a couple others.
They'll wake the dead, or at least those sleeping on a conference call.
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I'm a mechanical engineer in the product design industry, and I recently picked up my first Filco (TKL with MX-Browns). I'm very pleased with it, but I understand there is a widespread pinging issue with some of the other more recent keyboards. This is an intimidating and frustrating user experience failure for many, but I believe I have a fix for The Keyboard Co. or an end user that will recondition a pinging keyboard back to a reasonable noise level. The problem is I haven't actually experienced the pinging on my keyboard.
Let me take your super pingy keyboard. Selfishly I would prefer pingy MX-Blues (haven't tried them yet), but truthfully anything pinging should satisfy this experiment.
I already offered to fix a pinging Filco for free but I'm on the wrong side of the athlantic an the shipment cos are an issue.
Luckily I found a total of 4 pinging switches until now, the last one brand new and never mounted (fixed slimly opening and reassembling it)
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I just sold a pinging Majestouch 2! Should have asked a week earlier.
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According to the ping poll you have a less of 15% chance of finding a Pinging Filco.
May not be a big market.
Now if you get rid of shiny spacebars that would really be something. My PBT KBC one is getting a TAD of a shine.
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:)
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I already offered to fix a pinging Filco for free but I'm on the wrong side of the athlantic an the shipment cos are an issue.
Luckily I found a total of 4 pinging switches until now, the last one brand new and never mounted (fixed slimly opening and reassembling it)
Fixing the individual switches would take forever. Instead, I just assume change the resonant frequency of the steel plate.
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I'm a mechanical engineer in the product design industry, and I recently picked up my first Filco (TKL with MX-Browns). I'm very pleased with it, but I understand there is a widespread pinging issue with some of the other more recent keyboards.
Based upon what I've seen, it's actually not widespread, it's just a few unfortunate folks. I would have considered your cause myself, as I had a loudly ringing Filco, but I took matters into my own hands :)
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Based upon what I've seen, it's actually not widespread, it's just a few unfortunate folks. I would have considered your cause myself, as I had a loudly ringing Filco, but I took matters into my own hands :)
Hah, well it's your solution that leads me to believe it is a resonance issue. Your solution certainly wasn't the most delicate, but it accomplished the same goal, albeit in a different practical and theoretical way. :)