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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: fohat.digs on Thu, 08 December 2011, 15:17:19
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I have tried to comb the switch wikis, but I do not see this one anywhere.
If have have been careless and overlooked it, please accept my groveling apologies.
In my defense, the "search" function on this forum does not seem very cooperative, at least to me. And then, when it comes up empty-handed, it still yet demands a waiting period before another search. WTF ?
This is on a Focus FK6200
There appears to be a stem with a spring and a plunger, activating a rubber dome below. The caps are double-shot, with pegs slightly larger than Alps.
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It is not really a bad-feeling switch, but I will probably sell the board anyway.
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Do you have the keyboard in hand?
This is undocumented in the wikis, and I have not seen it before. If you think it is a rubber dome it probably is.
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Awesome ! "Stump the Chumps"
First I wow the forum with my Elderly/Educational keyboard, now this.
No wonder I got a high "Dork" score along with my "Pure Nerd" status. I will try to dredge up more weird-o keyboards.
I have not taken this one apart, and don't intend to. I mainly need to find it a good home.
Please forgive the pictures. I love my little Panasonic Lumix, but this is closer than it likes to be. Like me, it needs its reading glasses. OK, another edit, I think I got a better picture at last.
Anyway, you can look down and see a rubber dome at the bottom.
I gave a moderate pull on the black plunger that is the "stem" part of the mechanism, to try to see how the spring went in, but I am reluctant to force it or break it. It did not budge so I am leaving it in place.
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On a similar note, I know of a few mechanical switch types that are not documented in the wiki but I am too lazy/cowardly to add them in. I am willing to bet a free cherry doubleshot set, that no1 here can identify this...
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Interesting ... A spring + plunger over rubber dome reminds me a great deal of the Fujtisu Peerless' mechanism, but it does not look like it.
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On a similar note, I know of a few mechanical switch types that are not documented in the wiki but I am too lazy/cowardly to add them in. I am willing to bet a free cherry doubleshot set, that no1 here can identify this...
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http://www.google.com/patents?id=OWQzAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA2&dq=4017850&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=4#v=onepage&q=4017850&f=false
http://www.google.com/patents?id=HW47AAAAEBAJ&pg=PA2&dq=4227163&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=4#v=onepage&q=4227163&f=false
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Touchez sir. PM me your address and I will send you the keyset.
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Seen the red thing before, but not the OP's. Looks like a common design. Spring/slider with dome.