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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Daniel Beaver on Mon, 06 February 2012, 18:28:58
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Where on earth can you find some good material to make replacement rubber feet? My new Model F has a single rubber foot missing, and I've been sort of dumbfounded as to where I can aquire something to replace it. I'm also keen on replacing the rubber on my Topres and Model M, since they slide around a little too much for comfort. The feet on the Model F are very effective, and so I'm keen on buying something like those... would an online retailer specializing in gaming maybe have some?
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I haven't seen anything online, but I've seen stick-on rubber pads at my local hardware store for putting on the inside of cabinet doors. I'm not sure if they'd be thick enough but maybe?
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I know its pretty easy to get felt ones at lots of electronics/hardware/furniture stores, but these are more to stop scratching than movement. Don't know about rubber ones, but I'd suggest looking in similar places.
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Go to Lowes or Home Depot and where they sell the rubber leg caps,carpet sliders for furniture and what not. There they sell different sizes of self-adhesive little foam-rubber feet,I think you can get square or round. They'll work perfect as they aren't very thick about 1/8"(maybe a tad thicker), and have a little traction pattern on them to keep from slipping. i think they are to prevent scratches on wood floors or something. I've used them on other projects and they are great.
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edit: sorry, wrong thread reply and no way to delete own message :(
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http://www.allelectronics.com/make-a-store/category/545/Rubber-Feet/Bumpers/1.html
This store is actually a couple miles from where I live. I went there specifically to buy rubber feet. Shipping isn't bad, but I would buy a couple to make it worth it.
The clear ones have great grip, and the 100 x 54mm rubber pad can be easily cut to size for lots of different uses.
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Got a picture of the foot I get all my feet from an old trilling store even found a near exact replacement for my KMAC feet I was missing.
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Any hardware store
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I picked these up at Home Depot and they were very grippy. They are stackable as well.
(https://i.imgur.com/cc8p8Sw.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/9inqCMJ.jpg)
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I've been testing out different types of feet to go along with my wrist rests (I like to include a couple different sizes free so that people can adjust the height if they want).
Had a great suggestion from GSimon that I should start selling these for people who need simple sets of keyboard feet, so I'm going to be offering these in my shop as soon as I get some envelopes to ship them in :)
Right now my standard packages have sets of 10 3.5mm cylindrical bumpons and 10 flat (~1.5 mm) nonslip rubber squares. Should be enough to fit any keyboard in a couple of different height configurations.
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http://www.rubberfeetwarehouse.com (http://www.rubberfeetwarehouse.com)
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http://www.mcmaster.com
You'll find them under "bumpers".
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I've found and am using a perfect alternative of Model F rubber foot.
What I'm using is SJ-P5007 manufactured by Takachi electric industrial.