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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Rafen on Sat, 22 October 2011, 08:25:35

Title: Leopold space bar shine
Post by: Rafen on Sat, 22 October 2011, 08:25:35

I have had my Leopold for a couple of months now and just started to notice that the space bar is starting to shine, has any noticed this in such a short period of time?  Is there anyway to fix this?

Title: Leopold space bar shine
Post by: slueth on Sat, 22 October 2011, 08:31:51

Sandblast it, get a new spacebar, shine the rest of the spacebar

Title: Leopold space bar shine
Post by: Tony on Sat, 22 October 2011, 08:35:28

Based on how much oil your fingers have, the keycaps can be shiny as quick as a month. My Filco spacebar is shiny after 8 months of use.

You can always replace it with another Space keycap. Or use a sand paper.

The shiny keycaps will reappear again in due course.

That's the main reason the new full 104 keycaps are sold to us with 1/3 the keyboard price.

Title: Leopold space bar shine
Post by: Rafen on Sat, 22 October 2011, 11:17:24

I also find shiny spacebars annoying that is why I was asking. I think that it might be time to buy a keyboard, one that I don't have to buy a special spacebar for.

Title: Leopold space bar shine
Post by: flyball on Sat, 22 October 2011, 11:53:53

dont stare at your keyboard. or wash your hands more often [video=youtube;VxBt_p8gFkw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxBt_p8gFkw[/video]

Title: Leopold space bar shine
Post by: pitashen on Sat, 22 October 2011, 15:45:18

Perhaps you can become a material scientist and come up with some cheap and super tough plastic material. We will all thank you for that.

Peace

Title: Leopold space bar shine
Post by: jpm804 on Sat, 22 October 2011, 15:49:15

you can also use one of those magic erasers to try to get rid of the shine...

Here is mmmty's thread on what he did : http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?20243-It-s-magic&highlight=magic+eraser

I've tried it also and seems to work but it also probably depends on how shinny it is.