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Title: HHKB keycaps on a Realforce?
Post by: norbauer on Fri, 13 September 2013, 16:51:50

So EliteKeyboards is vociferous in proclaiming on its product page that you can't use the HHKB blank keycaps on a Realforce. I understand that a single set wouldn't provide enough keys (because there is no separate function row, etc), but if I bought two sets of blank HHKB keycaps, wouldn't that give me enough to fit every single key on a Realforce 87U? Or are some of the caps different sizes? What's the deal? I basically want to get all-blank black keycaps on an 87U.

Title: Re: HHKB keycaps on a Realforce?
Post by: tjcaustin on Fri, 13 September 2013, 16:55:15

You wouldn't have the correct sized right shift

Title: Re: HHKB keycaps on a Realforce?
Post by: ohgodpleaseno on Fri, 13 September 2013, 17:11:28

What size is the right shift on an HHKB?

Title: Re: HHKB keycaps on a Realforce?
Post by: Puddsy on Fri, 13 September 2013, 17:20:50

1.75, I think

Title: Re: HHKB keycaps on a Realforce?
Post by: norbauer on Sat, 14 September 2013, 01:30:18

Makes sense. I hadn't noticed the aberrant right-shift. So I guess it's pretty much impossible to get blank Realforce keycaps at the moment other than the limited selection of wacky colors currently sold by EK?

Title: Re: HHKB keycaps on a Realforce?
Post by: rowdy on Sat, 14 September 2013, 03:45:50

Yeah, right Shift on HHKB 2 is about 1.75x.

A lot narrower than left Shift.

Title: Re: HHKB keycaps on a Realforce?
Post by: therecorder on Sat, 14 September 2013, 11:19:33

There's a lot of people who rather have the white/gray set than the black/black set of keycaps that came with their black Realforce.  Why don't you try listing a trade in the "classifieds" forum?

Title: Re: HHKB keycaps on a Realforce?
Post by: norbauer on Sat, 14 September 2013, 13:01:44

Quote from: therecorder on Sat, 14 September 2013, 11:19:33

There's a lot of people who rather have the white/gray set than the black/black set of keycaps that came with their black Realforce.  Why don't you try listing a trade in the "classifieds" forum?

A fine suggestion, except that I currently have the black/black set and would prefer blanks (either black or the kind of white/grey combo that are available for RF).

Title: Re: HHKB keycaps on a Realforce?
Post by: AuRinBei on Tue, 17 September 2013, 15:07:42

The delete/backspace key is smaller too.