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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: tp4tissue on Mon, 19 March 2012, 23:15:17

Title: Can I dissolve the White infills on lasered keys
Post by: tp4tissue on Mon, 19 March 2012, 23:15:17

They're wearing off mighty fast anyways. I thought I'd just get rid of them.


I'd rather use a solvent than sanding,

Anyone with experience with this?

Title: Can I dissolve the White infills on lasered keys
Post by: limmy on Mon, 19 March 2012, 23:26:00

I would not use solvent. It would be hard to get a uniform result using solvent in my opinion. Also, solvents will melt away sanded/molded sandpaper like surface and make it shiny at best.

I would think sanding is better choice, but it also has problems. I heard some stories about using sandpaper, and most of them were complaints(results not uniform, too tired to sand them, and etc) You would probably get better results using sand blaster, but that is a lot of investment for the purpose.

I would personally recommend getting a set of blank caps. PBT will be better than ABS.

Title: Can I dissolve the White infills on lasered keys
Post by: tp4tissue on Mon, 19 March 2012, 23:31:48

My keys are getting shiny anyway. I'm not too worried about that.

So you guys are saying there's no way to dissolve the infills without damaging the keys right?

Title: Can I dissolve the White infills on lasered keys
Post by: tp4tissue on Tue, 20 March 2012, 00:02:43

Quote from: ripster;551134

I'd show a pic but I can't.

Quit holding out on us.. I even read ur keycap test page, didn't help..

Title: Can I dissolve the White infills on lasered keys
Post by: Squelos on Tue, 20 March 2012, 11:06:11

Quote from: tp4tissue;551149

Quit holding out on us.. I even read ur keycap test page, didn't help..

He wont be helping you much.

He seems to have gone braindead or something. Dunno what the hell happenned.