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Title: Realforce 87U TKL keycaps?
Post by: kansas city shuffle on Mon, 10 March 2014, 20:25:49
Anyone know of a place to get keycaps for a Realforce 87U TKL? It seems elitekeyboards doesn't carry a full set aside from the 'pink' ones. :)
Title: Re: Realforce 87U TKL keycaps?
Post by: Pacifist on Mon, 10 March 2014, 20:27:18
topre caps are pretty scarce now

classifieds is pretty much the only place
Title: Re: Realforce 87U TKL keycaps?
Post by: drinkbleach on Mon, 10 March 2014, 20:31:03
You can always get the pink and try to dye them  :thumb:
Title: Re: Realforce 87U TKL keycaps?
Post by: kansas city shuffle on Mon, 10 March 2014, 21:32:10
You can always get the pink and try to dye them  :thumb:

Haha... now there's a thought.  :))
Title: Re: Realforce 87U TKL keycaps?
Post by: kansas city shuffle on Mon, 10 March 2014, 21:32:34
topre caps are pretty scarce now

classifieds is pretty much the only place

Why is that? Have they just decided to stop making them?
Title: Re: Realforce 87U TKL keycaps?
Post by: Zaskar on Mon, 10 March 2014, 21:58:27
Why is that? Have they just decided to stop making them?

Actually yeah :/  I'm not sure why but supposedly they decided to stop producing the alternate color stand alone sets of keycaps. Don't know if that covers things like the Red Esc keys, but I know the full sets and Modifier sets aren't in production anymore.
Title: Re: Realforce 87U TKL keycaps?
Post by: avtar on Mon, 10 March 2014, 22:55:39
Why is that? Have they just decided to stop making them?

From what I've heard Topre don't want to produce aftermarket keycaps. There are some on sale here http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.0.0.kL3bAY&id=36392535695 , in the classifieds, or you could wait until either matt3o finishes his mx/topre sliders http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=54942.msg1252984#msg1252984 or harvest them for Cooler Master's Novatouch once it's available.
Title: Re: Realforce 87U TKL keycaps?
Post by: kansas city shuffle on Tue, 11 March 2014, 14:32:50
Well that's a pity on their part. Thanks for the links, I've give them a gander.