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geekhack Community => Keyboard Keycaps => Topic started by: michaellthenerd on Mon, 10 December 2012, 02:18:16

Title: White PBT Color?
Post by: michaellthenerd on Mon, 10 December 2012, 02:18:16

Just a quick question guys, when you are using light/ bright colored PBT caps does the color easily stain over regular usage ? (By that I am referring to the color change over a periodic usage.)

Title: Re: White PBT Color?
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Mon, 10 December 2012, 16:33:20

PBT is pretty resistant to such things. I have PBT caps from early 80's, clean them off and they look like new again.

Title: Re: White PBT Color?
Post by: TotalChaos on Mon, 10 December 2012, 17:03:27

I have super acid hands.  I melt newspapers and magazines in under 3 minutes.

I have PBT keycaps from 1987 that still look perfect and I typed the hell out of them, dropped them on floor a few times each year, gamed on them some, etc. etc.  They are all in perfect shape.

None of the keycaps were white though.  They are all Beige.  But I donno if that matters.  I have friends with PBT keycaps from 1985 that are white or offwhite and they still look perfect.