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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: mr626 on Mon, 10 October 2011, 06:53:20
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Hi all,
So, for $30 I scored this (sorry for the photo quality):
[ATTACH=CONFIG]28279[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH=CONFIG]28280[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH=CONFIG]28281[/ATTACH]
I got it to try out an ALP board. Very impressive. I think I prefer these white ALPS over Cherry MX Blues for a tactile and clicky non-buckling spring switch.
Other than give it a good clean and retr0bright the casing, a couple of issues:
-One of the switches sometimes doesn't 'click'. I've looking at the wiki articles on here about ALPS and I've been able to remove the switch and have a look at the inner workings and there's nothing obviously wrong with it- the spring looks fine, nothing appears damaged and there's no gunk/dirt in there. Any tips on how to fix this? Or would it be easier just to replace the switch? (ALPS seem easy to remove/replace, but where would I buy replacements?).
-When I fix up an older board, I like to add a small amount of colour in the form of RGB modifier keys, or at the very least a non-standard Esc key (red, or some other non-standard design/colour). Where would I find this sort of thing?