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Title: Blank home keys with "nibs"
Post by: Arbalest on Fri, 22 November 2013, 14:35:15: Are blank keys available with the home key bumps?

Are people making their own bumps? How?

I added a little super glue to the bumps on my non-blank home keys so as to feel them better. It works but it looks a little ugly, although I can live with that. But I don't want to mess up a new set of blank caps.
Title: Re: Blank home keys with "nibs"
Post by: regack on Fri, 22 November 2013, 14:48:01: Quote from: Arbalest on Fri, 22 November 2013, 14:35:15
Are blank keys available with the home key bumps?

Are people making their own bumps? How?

I added a little super glue to the bumps on my non-blank home keys so as to feel them better. It works but it looks a little ugly, although I can live with that. But I don't want to mess up a new set of blank caps.

You should be able to find those, if not at Signature Plastics I know you can get them at WASD. I'm sure some of the vendors could get them as well.
Title: Re: Blank home keys with "nibs"
Post by: jdcarpe on Fri, 22 November 2013, 14:51:31: Signature Plastics has some blank DCS-profile PBT keycaps with homing bars:

From: http://www.keycapsdirect.com/inventorypdfs/DCSPBTInventory.pdf
302588 DCS - 1X ROW 3 HOMING BAR - BLUE (BCT) PBT 101
300646 DCS - 1X ROW 3 HOMING BAR - BRIGHT WHITE (WFJ) PBT 88
212018 DCS - 1X ROW 3 HOMING BAR - CREAM (WBK) PBT 730
302919 DCS - 1X ROW 3 WITH HOMING BAR - LIGHT GRAY (GRA) PBT 431

You can order from here: http://www.keycapsdirect.com/key-capsinventory.php
Title: Re: Blank home keys with "nibs"
Post by: terran5992 on Fri, 22 November 2013, 22:13:10: 0.o super glue to keycaps.
Title: Re: Blank home keys with "nibs"
Post by: bedrift on Fri, 06 December 2013, 10:25:48: Quote from: Arbalest on Fri, 22 November 2013, 14:35:15
Are people making their own bumps? How?

I added a little super glue to the bumps on my non-blank home keys so as to feel them better. It works but it looks a little ugly, although I can live with that. But I don't want to mess up a new set of blank caps.

I'm also asking for suggestions how to make more prominent home key bumps.
I'm using a laptop so I would rather not change the key caps. I don't mind making them a little messy. Is glue the way to go, is it really healthy to touch glue all day long?
Title: Re: Blank home keys with "nibs"
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Fri, 06 December 2013, 11:55:29: Get some round head finishing nails, get it hot and press it through the keycap, then clip off the excess length... you could have something like this:
(http://i.imgur.com/mKH4uZx.jpg)
Title: Re: Blank home keys with "nibs"
Post by: daerid on Fri, 06 December 2013, 13:32:49: Quote from: jdcarpe on Fri, 22 November 2013, 14:51:31
Signature Plastics has some blank DCS-profile PBT keycaps with homing bars:

From: http://www.keycapsdirect.com/inventorypdfs/DCSPBTInventory.pdf
302588 DCS - 1X ROW 3 HOMING BAR - BLUE (BCT) PBT 101
300646 DCS - 1X ROW 3 HOMING BAR - BRIGHT WHITE (WFJ) PBT 88
212018 DCS - 1X ROW 3 HOMING BAR - CREAM (WBK) PBT 730
302919 DCS - 1X ROW 3 WITH HOMING BAR - LIGHT GRAY (GRA) PBT 431

You can order from here: http://www.keycapsdirect.com/key-capsinventory.php

I cannot believe they don't have black ones.

I've been doing fine using deep dish DSA for my F and J keys on the ErgoDox. But still, homing nubs would be much better.
Title: Re: Blank home keys with "nibs"
Post by: Phagocytosis on Fri, 06 December 2013, 14:09:43: Quote from: IvanIvanovich on Fri, 06 December 2013, 11:55:29
Get some round head finishing nails, get it hot and press it through the keycap, then clip off the excess length... you could have something like this:
Show Image
(http://i.imgur.com/mKH4uZx.jpg)

wow this is a smart and simple DYI
Title: Re: Blank home keys with "nibs"
Post by: kolonelkadat on Fri, 06 December 2013, 20:43:16: Quote from: IvanIvanovich on Fri, 06 December 2013, 11:55:29
Get some round head finishing nails, get it hot and press it through the keycap, then clip off the excess length... you could have something like this:
Show Image
(http://i.imgur.com/mKH4uZx.jpg)

wow thats really clever.
Title: Re: Blank home keys with "nibs"
Post by: TheHydroMule on Sat, 14 December 2013, 02:40:19: Quote from: IvanIvanovich on Fri, 06 December 2013, 11:55:29
Get some round head finishing nails, get it hot and press it through the keycap, then clip off the excess length... you could have something like this:
Show Image
(http://i.imgur.com/mKH4uZx.jpg)

Hey are these your keys? Mind showing what the inside of ones that have the nail look like so I can get a better idea of what to do? That or a step by step would be cool
Title: Re: Blank home keys with "nibs"
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Sat, 14 December 2013, 10:17:08: No I don't have that. It only gave me the idea.
Title: Re: Blank home keys with "nibs"
Post by: 0100010 on Tue, 17 December 2013, 22:28:14: Unicomp blank PBT BS key sets have the three (F / J / 5) keys with nubs included. Always figured every key set would?