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geekhack Community => Keyboard Keycaps => Topic started by: Lighthouse1 on Tue, 05 June 2012, 17:27:59
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Hi, sorry if this is a repeat question but am new here having just discovered the joy of a strange addiction to keyboards. My other half will shortly have me certified but in the meantime..
Had my first mechanical about 6 months ago and discovered a weird throw back memory to the days of IBM clicky things...strange to find you can have one of those these days. Hit the slippery slope.
Have just acquired (when my seller sends it, I bought it on Ebay but noticed its also on here -google image search is a wondrous thing - so perhaps that is a good sign!) a CM Storm quick fire as I wanted to try a small TKL board, but I was wondering if any replacement caps will fit the little space bar as I am not sure I am keen on the branding.
I was thinking of buying a set of keys and wondered about the space bar in particular as having done a bit of reading the other ones should be easy to replace if I want to (I quite like the look of the blank / side printing ones as I do touch type so don't need the letters) but after some advice on what size the space bar needs to be.
Grateful for any help and tips. Based in UK if that makes a difference in acquiring anything. :smile:
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The spacebar is 6.25x, so you won't have any problems acquiring one as long as the keycap set you're buying has 1.25x modifers.
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The spacebar is 6.25x, so you won't have any problems acquiring one as long as the keycap set you're buying has 1.25x modifers.
Many thanks for the speedy reply. Sorry as this is a stupid question but what is a 1.25x modifer? Is that just the required size of the control / alt key etc?
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Yeah, that's just the size of the ctrl/alt/win/fn key.
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Yeah, that's just the size of the ctrl/alt/win/fn key.
Great, thanks.
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Replaced mine with one from WASD.
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Replaced mine with one from WASD.
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Replaced mine with one from WASD.
Thanks, coincidentally I just ordered a set of caps from them.