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geekhack Community => Keyboard Keycaps => Topic started by: concept73 on Sun, 15 September 2013, 15:15:55

Title: Filco keycaps on Poker 2??
Post by: concept73 on Sun, 15 September 2013, 15:15:55

Evening all, just a quick one, does anyone have any experience with Filco mx's on a poker 2??
I say this because i can get these caps in the UK without having to import,
Any advice??
http://www.keyboardco.com/product/blank-black-filco-104-key-keyset.asp

Thanks in advance!

Title: Re: Filco keycaps on Poker 2??
Post by: Puddsy on Sun, 15 September 2013, 15:44:59

Poker 2 is cherry stabs, while Filco is costar.

The mods won't fit, but everything else will.

Title: Re: Filco keycaps on Poker 2??
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Sun, 15 September 2013, 15:55:38

What? Stabs have no bearing on anything. Filco set main 61key block will be 100% compatible.

Title: Re: Filco keycaps on Poker 2??
Post by: Puddsy on Sun, 15 September 2013, 15:58:33

Really?

Guess I'm wrong. Again.

Title: Re: Filco keycaps on Poker 2??
Post by: concept73 on Sun, 15 September 2013, 16:04:28

So the main keys will fit but mods wont?

Title: Re: Filco keycaps on Poker 2??
Post by: elton5354 on Sun, 15 September 2013, 16:07:36

All keys will work.  For the mods (shifts, space bar, enter, backspace), you just have to remove the white plastic from the bottom of the stems in order for them to fit properly into the Poker 2 stabilizers.

That is if you're pulling them off a Filco keyboard.  If you're just buying new key cap sets, they don't include any of that, so you can just plug and type. ;)