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Title: Harvesting keycaps from electronic typewriters
Post by: Geroximo on Sat, 13 December 2014, 18:58:00

Hey,

harvesting keycaps from electronic typewriters.
Does someone do it?
What typewriters to look for?
Does someone know typewriter models that have Cherry MX compatible keycaps?
Maybe some spherical keycaps ?

Title: Re: Harvesting keycaps from electronic typewriters
Post by: hwood34 on Sat, 13 December 2014, 19:04:26

Probably the most popular typewriter people harvest from are Triumph Adlers for their caps (MX compatible). Other than that, I'm not sure how many electric typewriters use MX switches or which ones they are, many had older cherry switches like M6/M7. One that comes to mind is the Royal Satellite III, which can have MX blacks. And there are some that have Topre compatible caps. There are also some that have tee mount alps like the Sharp ZX-515

Title: Re: Harvesting keycaps from electronic typewriters
Post by: Geroximo on Sat, 13 December 2014, 19:10:57

So would this right here have Cherry compatible, spheric keycaps? (Triumph Adler Gabriele 9009)

(http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Elektrische-Schreibmaschine-Triumph-Adler-Gabriele-9009-/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/xhYAAOSwkNZUhJEj/$_57.JPG)

Title: Re: Harvesting keycaps from electronic typewriters
Post by: hwood34 on Sat, 13 December 2014, 19:14:07

Quote from: Geroximo on Sat, 13 December 2014, 19:10:57

So would this right here have Cherry compatible, spheric keycaps? (Triumph Adler Gabriele 9009)

Show Image

(http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Elektrische-Schreibmaschine-Triumph-Adler-Gabriele-9009-/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/z/xhYAAOSwkNZUhJEj/$_57.JPG)

Yep (http://deskthority.net/photos-f62/triumph-adler-typewriters-typewriters-typewriters-t8466.html)

Title: Re: Harvesting keycaps from electronic typewriters
Post by: Geroximo on Sat, 13 December 2014, 19:16:13

Holy s**t, that's pretty cool.
Thank you so much for your help.

Title: Re: Harvesting keycaps from electronic typewriters
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Sat, 13 December 2014, 19:23:00

Here is a decent list of Triumph Adler models (http://deskthority.net/wiki/Triumph-Adler) to get you started. By no means is exhaustive... and there are some other brands that used Cherry at times as well like AEG Olypmia.

Title: Re: Harvesting keycaps from electronic typewriters
Post by: Geroximo on Sat, 20 December 2014, 16:00:43

The result  :D :

Title: Re: Harvesting keycaps from electronic typewriters
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Sat, 20 December 2014, 16:19:04

Those cap are very cool, but I'd have to put them on something else where I didn't have to use standard caps with to fill out... seems very jarring. Would be great on a JD40 or something similar though to be sure.

Title: Re: Harvesting keycaps from electronic typewriters
Post by: hwood34 on Sun, 21 December 2014, 18:11:20

Quote from: Geroximo on Sat, 20 December 2014, 16:00:43

The result  :D :

Wow, those certainly look really cool. That is, if you can get used to that super low profile

Title: Re: Harvesting keycaps from electronic typewriters
Post by: ideus on Sun, 21 December 2014, 18:49:11

Quote from: Geroximo on Sat, 20 December 2014, 16:00:43

The result  :D :

It looks like a laptop keyboard, thank you very much for sharing, and congratulations on your finding. Please share some thoughts on the feeling of actually typing with them.

Title: Re: Harvesting keycaps from electronic typewriters
Post by: orpheo on Sun, 08 January 2017, 19:30:28

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