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geekhack Projects => Making Stuff Together! => Topic started by: NeoNoeN on Sat, 13 December 2014, 06:11:43
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Could I just use costar stabs for my alps keycaps instead of alps stabs? Alps stabs are just a hell of a lot harder to get my hands on and I intend on building an alps keyboard. They're both wire based so it shouldn't be a huge issue should it?
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You could certainly try. Only thing that's an issue is that the insert has the MX stem and many Alps inserts are square. But not all.
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DK1087XM does it. If you can find keycaps (hint: SP makes some), then it should work fine.
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It depends on which keycaps you have.
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I have the square type alps inserts on my board, but they're all essentially wire stabs right? Wouldn't the placement and wire shape be the only things I would need to take into consideration?
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Costar-style stabilizers aren’t going to work for you then. You should be able to source stabilizer parts from wherever you got the keycaps though, no?
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You would have to somehow glue the costar inserts in the right spot on the keycap for them to work. You might also need the costar wire as well.
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Why are we not 3d printing costar stab inserts for alps keycaps? That seems like a no brainer to me since costar stabs are easier to come by than alps stabs (from what I have seen).
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Why are we not 3d printing costar stab inserts for alps keycaps? That seems like a no brainer to me since costar stabs are easier to come by than alps stabs (from what I have seen).
I think this should be possible. Are you volunteering to do the 3d-modeling, order some test batches of prints, and iterate until it all works perfectly? :)
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Why are we not 3d printing costar stab inserts for alps keycaps? That seems like a no brainer to me since costar stabs are easier to come by than alps stabs (from what I have seen).
I think this should be possible. Are you volunteering to do the 3d-modeling, order some test batches of prints, and iterate until it all works perfectly? :)
I don't own a 3d printer or the required alps caps. :(
sorry.
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Definitely don’t use a home 3d printer for this: the results will be garbage.
But Shapeways or similar should work fine.
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Definitely don’t use a home 3d printer for this: the results will be garbage.
But Shapeways or similar should work fine.
I was thinking for initial testing, not for final iterations.
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Sounds awesome, hit me up if this goes somewhere!
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Would like to know if you made any progress in this project printing Costar stab inserts for Alps?