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Title: Custom Keyboard cover
Post by: tp4tissue on Wed, 11 April 2012, 13:29:33

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It was alot harder to write on cardboard vs rice paper.

100% delivery grade cardboard

Sable brush of-course.


Just got my white keycaps from feng, but the left shift got crushed in shipping :frusty:, he said he'll send me one soon though.. :biggrin:

Either way, made this cover to protect the keyboard from UV

Title: Custom Keyboard cover
Post by: darksakul on Fri, 13 April 2012, 08:28:28

Sorry to hear about your Left shift.
That is petty good calligraphy there.

Card board? Why not use what materials you have on hand.

Title: Custom Keyboard cover
Post by: dirge on Fri, 13 April 2012, 08:33:42

I use this on my model m

http://deskthority.net/off-topic-f10/cheap-model-m-dust-cover-t2324.html?hilit=brown%20ale

Just a pub beer towel, perfect size.  Also allows me to clean up spills quickly.

Title: Custom Keyboard cover
Post by: tp4tissue on Fri, 13 April 2012, 15:22:10

Quote from: darksakul;574479

Sorry to hear about your Left shift.
That is petty good calligraphy there.

Card board? Why not use what materials you have on hand.

Lol, and my mother said those calligraphy lessons were a waste of time.

just trying to put a little culture on GH

Title: Custom Keyboard cover
Post by: tp4tissue on Fri, 13 April 2012, 15:22:52

Quote from: dirge;574480

I use this on my model m

http://deskthority.net/off-topic-f10/cheap-model-m-dust-cover-t2324.html?hilit=brown%20ale

Just a pub beer towel, perfect size.  Also allows me to clean up spills quickly.

At first I was leaning towards cloth as well, but I don't think cloth can block UV completely, unless you sew a more solid layer underneath it.

Title: Custom Keyboard cover
Post by: Djuzuh on Fri, 13 April 2012, 15:28:36

what's the point of blocking UV?

Also, where do you have your keyboard so that he gets UV?

Title: Custom Keyboard cover
Post by: sth on Fri, 13 April 2012, 15:41:11

It makes ABS turn yellow.

Title: Custom Keyboard cover
Post by: Djuzuh on Fri, 13 April 2012, 16:21:45

Yeah, but unless you put your keyboard outside, there is no way he gets UVs, no?

Wall filters them, glass windows filters them, and I only know of the sun as source of UV.

Title: Custom Keyboard cover
Post by: sth on Fri, 13 April 2012, 16:25:32

Dunno man, I guess all those yellow keyboards just got tired of being beige.

Title: Custom Keyboard cover
Post by: zer0n on Fri, 13 April 2012, 16:37:10

Quote from: Djuzuh;574874

Yeah, but unless you put your keyboard outside, there is no way he gets UVs, no?

Wall filters them, glass windows filters them, and I only know of the sun as source of UV.

UVA passes through glass, it will be UVB your thinking of, have to treat glass for full UV protection.

Title: Custom Keyboard cover
Post by: Djuzuh on Fri, 13 April 2012, 16:41:13

Oh ok, thanks for the info.

Title: Custom Keyboard cover
Post by: zer0n on Fri, 13 April 2012, 16:50:19

ur welcome :dance:

Title: Custom Keyboard cover
Post by: tp4tissue on Fri, 13 April 2012, 17:31:14

And Many things generate UV, such as ccfl, so that includes computer lcds, WHICH my keyboard happens to be infront of ALL DAY..

Now they say 8 hours of UV from a computer lcd = 5 mins in the sun or something like that. So over years, this really adds up.