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Title: What Keycaps?
Post by: uzoc on Sun, 22 September 2013, 10:45:15
Just found this keyboard (no name).
Forgive how dirty it is (and dog hair):

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I know they are rubber dome, lasered.
I once had a HHKB Lite 2 and I think the keycpaps were the same (correct me if I'm wrong).
Any keyboard which might use these?
Title: Re: What Keycaps?
Post by: ComradeSniper on Sun, 22 September 2013, 12:52:02
That's just a generic rubber dome keycap,  Topre caps are different.
Title: Re: What Keycaps?
Post by: dorkvader on Sun, 22 September 2013, 12:57:39
That's just a generic rubber dome keycap,  Topre caps are different.
the hhkb lite does not use topre switches. it is also a rubberdome

Those look like the keycaps I had in my logitech that I threw away recently. Check if the F&J ones are any different or rotated or something.

I don't think they'll work in an hhkb lite2, but I dot have one on hand to check.
Title: Re: What Keycaps?
Post by: uzoc on Sun, 22 September 2013, 23:44:30
That's just a generic rubber dome keycap,  Topre caps are different.
the hhkb lite does not use topre switches. it is also a rubberdome

Those look like the keycaps I had in my logitech that I threw away recently. Check if the F&J ones are any different or rotated or something.

I don't think they'll work in an hhkb lite2, but I dot have one on hand to check.

I'll check it out...
This is what it looks like: http://fooninja.net/2010/07/29/cleaning-a-happy-hacking-keyboard/
Not worth anything?

Idea: The rubber domes can be used as keycap o-rings, I guess?
Title: Re: What Keycaps?
Post by: ComradeSniper on Sun, 22 September 2013, 23:58:25
That's just a generic rubber dome keycap,  Topre caps are different.
the hhkb lite does not use topre switches. it is also a rubberdome

Those look like the keycaps I had in my logitech that I threw away recently. Check if the F&J ones are any different or rotated or something.

I don't think they'll work in an hhkb lite2, but I dot have one on hand to check.

Whoops, I had just woken up when I typed that and I read right over the lite part. In that case I don't know.
Title: Re: What Keycaps?
Post by: BlueBär on Mon, 23 September 2013, 02:47:23
This is what it looks like: http://fooninja.net/2010/07/29/cleaning-a-happy-hacking-keyboard/
Not worth anything?

Idea: The rubber domes can be used as keycap o-rings, I guess?

Even if those were compatible with the HHKB Lite I don't think you would get much out of them, there's no real demand for rubberdome keycaps.

If you cut them just the right size you could use them as o-rings, but good luck with that...
Title: Re: What Keycaps?
Post by: uzoc on Mon, 23 September 2013, 10:29:06
This is what it looks like: http://fooninja.net/2010/07/29/cleaning-a-happy-hacking-keyboard/
Not worth anything?

Idea: The rubber domes can be used as keycap o-rings, I guess?

Even if those were compatible with the HHKB Lite I don't think you would get much out of them, there's no real demand for rubberdome keycaps.

If you cut them just the right size you could use them as o-rings, but good luck with that...

Thanks, yeah, so wasteful...
And I got two of the same.
Now I understand why we must recycle...