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geekhack Community => Keyboard Keycaps => Topic started by: Pacifist on Mon, 09 June 2014, 21:41:36

Title: 2 Piece vs 1 Piece IBM Caps
Post by: Pacifist on Mon, 09 June 2014, 21:41:36
How does the feel compare? 1 piece is 100% solid but 2 piece doesn't seem too wobly
Title: Re: 2 Piece vs 1 Piece IBM Caps
Post by: CPTBadAss on Mon, 09 June 2014, 21:42:42
They feel the same to me. I can't tell a difference.
Title: Re: 2 Piece vs 1 Piece IBM Caps
Post by: Wildcard on Fri, 13 June 2014, 11:39:37
Same to me as well. The design of the 2 piece is very solid.
Title: Re: 2 Piece vs 1 Piece IBM Caps
Post by: jwaz on Fri, 13 June 2014, 11:51:46
The one piece caps feel vastly superior. Anyone who tells you different is wrong.
Title: Re: 2 Piece vs 1 Piece IBM Caps
Post by: Parak on Fri, 13 June 2014, 12:05:25
The two piece caps feel vastly superior. Anyone who tells you different is wrong.

idontactuallyhaveanopiniononthismatter
Title: Re: 2 Piece vs 1 Piece IBM Caps
Post by: fohat.digs on Fri, 13 June 2014, 12:05:33
I think that there is a difference, but it is very subtle.

Whatever additional tiny chatter there may be is washed away in the "catastrophic buckling" of the spring and the pivot plate rocking up and down.
Title: Re: 2 Piece vs 1 Piece IBM Caps
Post by: jwaz on Fri, 13 June 2014, 12:19:13
Honestly, the only advantage I've found to the one-piece caps is that I can rock colemak without the home row keys in weird places.
Title: Re: 2 Piece vs 1 Piece IBM Caps
Post by: Techno Trousers on Fri, 13 June 2014, 12:34:58
I don't notice any difference in feel.
Title: Re: 2 Piece vs 1 Piece IBM Caps
Post by: 0100010 on Fri, 13 June 2014, 12:35:49
The only 2 piece caps on my board are the 1.5x modifiers; they have no additional play that I can feel.
Title: Re: 2 Piece vs 1 Piece IBM Caps
Post by: vivalarevolución on Sun, 15 June 2014, 15:06:38
I have both and I have not notice a difference.  The one piece leave a tad more space between the keys, but the two-piece are easy to move around if I want to do an alternative layout.
Title: Re: 2 Piece vs 1 Piece IBM Caps
Post by: microsoft windows on Mon, 23 June 2014, 13:30:33
I never noticed a difference between them.
Title: Re: 2 Piece vs 1 Piece IBM Caps
Post by: rowdy on Mon, 23 June 2014, 17:11:24
I have not noticed any difference in the feel.

But one thing 1-piece keycaps have over 2-piece is that you cannot lose the top piece.
Title: Re: 2 Piece vs 1 Piece IBM Caps
Post by: sleepy916 on Mon, 23 June 2014, 17:33:57
I prefer the 1-piece because the ones that I have seem to have darker/bolder lettering. To me the dye sub was better back then. The feel is unnoticeable for me though.
Title: Re: 2 Piece vs 1 Piece IBM Caps
Post by: ShawnMeg on Sat, 02 August 2014, 06:12:30
I can't tell a difference.  I do like the 2 pieces in that changing the keycaps is fast and easy.
Title: Re: 2 Piece vs 1 Piece IBM Caps
Post by: skcheng on Sat, 02 August 2014, 08:43:19
I like one piece better.    Caps don't come flying off with my blazing fast 55wpm speed!! 

AT-F one piece > Model M SSK one piece >  Model M two piece.    Two piece caps much more common. 
Title: Re: 2 Piece vs 1 Piece IBM Caps
Post by: rowdy on Sat, 02 August 2014, 19:05:18
I have never had the top half of a 2 piece keycap come off accidentally :eek:
Title: Re: 2 Piece vs 1 Piece IBM Caps
Post by: berserkfan on Sat, 02 August 2014, 22:01:26
kids know the difference. because they like pulling off and rearranging the caps, and obviously two piece are far easier to remove
Title: Re: 2 Piece vs 1 Piece IBM Caps
Post by: nameistaken1 on Sat, 02 August 2014, 22:06:56
kids know the difference. because they like pulling off and rearranging the caps, and obviously two piece are far easier to remove
But this makes cleaning SO much easier. Assuming one is the obsessive type that clean their keycaps constantly. I don't.

I can't tell a difference when typing. The two piece keys don't move around, if that's what you're thinking. The fit tightly, with clips on the bottom.
Title: Re: 2 Piece vs 1 Piece IBM Caps
Post by: berserkfan on Sat, 02 August 2014, 22:58:32
kids know the difference. because they like pulling off and rearranging the caps, and obviously two piece are far easier to remove
But this makes cleaning SO much easier. Assuming one is the obsessive type that clean their keycaps constantly. I don't.

I can't tell a difference when typing. The two piece keys don't move around, if that's what you're thinking. The fit tightly, with clips on the bottom.

when typing they do make a difference, if the kids have gotten their hands on the keycaps. that's how I end up without a single buckling spring keyboard that has a full set of keycaps of the same color. the kids pull everything off and rearrange to their liking and they transplant between keyboards with keycaps of a different color scheme

this is something that can't be done with adult fingers (too big to fit in the spaces between keys, so it's hard for an adult to remove a 2-piece top cap).
Title: Re: 2 Piece vs 1 Piece IBM Caps
Post by: orihalcon on Tue, 05 August 2014, 19:19:25
Might be a little difference when it comes to the 1.5 sized keys like the "\|" key, but for the regular ones, I can't tell the difference.