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geekhack Community => Keyboard Keycaps => Topic started by: hhirsch on Sun, 01 March 2015, 01:30:17
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So I wanted to order the blank key caps for the kinesis advantage.
However since it appears to cost more then 100 $ to ship them to europe I decided to wait for somebody from the US to visit and bring them for free.
Now I did not want to go two years without the blank key caps so I did use a sharpie to paint most of the caps black and
used fixing spray for paintings and spray to make shoes waterproof to prevent washing the color off with sweat like it has been a problem when I tried this in the past. So far I have no black fingers and the caps are still blank like they should be.
Everything I used is soluble in ethanol and thus the whole process is reversible by using alcohol to make the prints on the caps visible again.
I am sure that the effect is not permanent and will wear with time. But when that happens I just repeat the process until I have my blank caps.
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The color is still holding on to my keys. Only two keys I use very frequently have worn out partly so far.
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I've wanted the blank set for years and almost purchased. Then I realized I wanted PBT instead of crappy ABS...so I'm holding out the PBT blank set.
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Most of the Kinesis keys are in regular OEM profile and of ABS plastic. You could get most of the similar keys from someone else such as WASD Keyboards.
The super-high keys for Ctrl and Alt are very unusual. The home-row keys are more like Signature Plastics' DSA profile.
Here's a compatibility chart made by KPS:
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