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Title: What are these keycaps? ABS? PBT?
Post by: babuinix on Wed, 18 February 2015, 17:21:59
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Title: Re: What are these keycaps? ABS? PBT?
Post by: Firebolt1914 on Wed, 18 February 2015, 17:26:41
It's kind of hard to tell, I might go with ABS, but I'm probably wrong. :))

Just wondering, what keyboard were these from? They look interesting
Title: Re: What are these keycaps? ABS? PBT?
Post by: nubbinator on Wed, 18 February 2015, 17:49:40
They look like an abortion in ABS, but the only way to know fire sure is to test.
Title: Re: What are these keycaps? ABS? PBT?
Post by: _PixelNinja on Wed, 18 February 2015, 18:09:23
Buoyancy test?
Title: Re: What are these keycaps? ABS? PBT?
Post by: babuinix on Wed, 18 February 2015, 18:18:04
Itīs this one > http://deskthority.net/wiki/Olivetti_ANK_27-102_N
Title: Re: What are these keycaps? ABS? PBT?
Post by: Firebolt1914 on Wed, 18 February 2015, 19:37:26
On the wiki it says that they're double shot, so my guess is that they're ABS.
Title: Re: What are these keycaps? ABS? PBT?
Post by: Oobly on Thu, 19 February 2015, 03:01:19
Drop them in a glass of clean water and see if the float or sink:

Float = ABS
Sink = PBT

Make sure to get the air out from under the caps.

They're most likely ABS, but other boards of that era used PBT caps, so they could be either.
Title: Re: What are these keycaps? ABS? PBT?
Post by: Novus on Thu, 19 February 2015, 03:32:27
Quote from: Oobly on Thu, 19 February 2015, 03:01:19
Drop them in a glass of clean water and see if the float or sink:

Float = ABS
Sink = PBT

Make sure to get the air out from under the caps.

They're most likely ABS, but other boards of that era used PBT caps, so they could be either.

comon oobly i expect you to be able to just tell by looking.
Title: Re: What are these keycaps? ABS? PBT?
Post by: tbc on Thu, 19 February 2015, 04:04:47
Quote from: the1onewolf on Thu, 19 February 2015, 03:32:27
Quote from: Oobly on Thu, 19 February 2015, 03:01:19
Drop them in a glass of clean water and see if the float or sink:

Float = ABS
Sink = PBT

Make sure to get the air out from under the caps.

They're most likely ABS, but other boards of that era used PBT caps, so they could be either.

comon oobly i expect you to be able to just tell by looking.

of course he can!

the simple fact of the matter is that they are not WORTHY of being judged.
Title: Re: What are these keycaps? ABS? PBT?
Post by: Oobly on Thu, 19 February 2015, 07:54:47
Quote from: tbc on Thu, 19 February 2015, 04:04:47
Quote from: the1onewolf on Thu, 19 February 2015, 03:32:27
Quote from: Oobly on Thu, 19 February 2015, 03:01:19
Drop them in a glass of clean water and see if the float or sink:

Float = ABS
Sink = PBT

Make sure to get the air out from under the caps.

They're most likely ABS, but other boards of that era used PBT caps, so they could be either.

comon oobly i expect you to be able to just tell by looking.

of course he can!

the simple fact of the matter is that they are not WORTHY of being judged.

:D

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish for you and you feed yourself for a lifetime." - Oobly