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Title: Cherry MX 8000, G80-8200HUAUS $45 OBO shipped
Post by: nubbinator on Thu, 12 March 2015, 20:12:40
Should be MX Blacks with nice doubleshots based on the article numbers. Unless the caps lock and the bottom row are off centered, you should be able to fill most standard layout boards with these.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cherry-MX-8000-G80-8200HUAUS-2-00-Black-USB-POS-Keyboard-/321694062147?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4ae675d643

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cherry-MX-8000-G80-8200HUAUS-2-01-Black-USB-POS-Keyboard-/221713635944?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item339f299a68

If someone grabs one and doesn't need all the switches, I'd love to get some for lube experiments.
Title: Re: Cherry MX 8000, G80-8200HUAUS $45 OBO shipped
Post by: bueller on Thu, 12 March 2015, 20:14:10
All caps should be compatible with standard MX layouts, bought one of these last year. Only issue is the menu and win keys are pad printed.
Title: Re: Cherry MX 8000, G80-8200HUAUS $45 OBO shipped
Post by: nubbinator on Thu, 12 March 2015, 20:18:13
All caps should be compatible with standard MX layouts, bought one of these last year. Only issue is the menu and win keys are pad printed.

Good to know.  One of the cheapest high quality sets you could get right now that would fill out your board then.  I think you could make do with the pad printing pretty easily unless the pad printed caps are thin.
Title: Re: Cherry MX 8000, G80-8200HUAUS $45 OBO shipped
Post by: SpAmRaY on Thu, 12 March 2015, 20:32:10
These would be good boards for someone who wanted to practice soldering on an actual keyboard just for kicks. Plus you get some decent caps. I'm not a huge fan of the relegendable keys.
Title: Re: Cherry MX 8000, G80-8200HUAUS $45 OBO shipped
Post by: nubbinator on Thu, 12 March 2015, 20:33:47
Yeah, the relegendables are annoying, but the 60% part of the board is awesome.
Title: Re: Cherry MX 8000, G80-8200HUAUS $45 OBO shipped
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Thu, 12 March 2015, 20:35:32
These are 100% compatible with your average 87/104 key. Despite the article numbers they usually have browns, or occasionally clears not blacks. Sadly the USB versions of these are 2KRO not NKRO like the PS/2 ones. Good deal.
Title: Re: Cherry MX 8000, G80-8200HUAUS $45 OBO shipped
Post by: jdcarpe on Thu, 12 March 2015, 20:39:47
Desoldering those jumpers is not a fun task, though. ;)
Title: Re: Cherry MX 8000, G80-8200HUAUS $45 OBO shipped
Post by: SpAmRaY on Thu, 12 March 2015, 20:41:01
Desoldering those jumpers is not a fun task, though. ;)

I had a project once I actually wanted the switches with jumpers but I kind of abandoned that board.

But even with the 808 you get the occasional jumper with a tiny bit of solder on it that just doesn't want to come off.
Title: Re: Cherry MX 8000, G80-8200HUAUS $45 OBO shipped
Post by: nubbinator on Thu, 12 March 2015, 20:45:40
These are 100% compatible with your average 87/104 key. Despite the article numbers they usually have browns, or occasionally clears not blacks. Sadly the USB versions of these are 2KRO not NKRO like the PS/2 ones. Good deal.

I saw that mentioned elsewhere with the Browns, but didn't seen any confirmation.  Thanks for confirming.

Desoldering those jumpers is not a fun task, though. ;)

Are you referencing the wire that's in the housing?  I had a board with those, they were more annoying that diodes.
Title: Re: Cherry MX 8000, G80-8200HUAUS $45 OBO shipped
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Thu, 12 March 2015, 20:54:59
After desoldering loads of G80... the trick to jumper wires is make sure one side is desoldered perfectly, leave the other side soldered down. Pull the switch out hard and it will usually come through the switch clean and you won't have to open them later to remove the wire bits.
Title: Re: Cherry MX 8000, G80-8200HUAUS $45 OBO shipped
Post by: hwood34 on Fri, 13 March 2015, 01:20:10
Just an FYI, the seller accepted an offer of $35
Title: Re: Cherry MX 8000, G80-8200HUAUS $45 OBO shipped
Post by: ianbullock on Fri, 13 March 2015, 14:00:47
Just an FYI, the seller accepted an offer of $35

Thanks for the tip, I am also $35 poorer now.
Title: Re: Cherry MX 8000, G80-8200HUAUS $45 OBO shipped
Post by: korrelate on Fri, 13 March 2015, 16:40:50
Nubs, you rock! Just picked one up!
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Title: Re: Cherry MX 8000, G80-8200HUAUS $45 OBO shipped
Post by: SpAmRaY on Sat, 21 March 2015, 18:57:35


These are 100% compatible with your average 87/104 key. Despite the article numbers they usually have browns, or occasionally clears not blacks. Sadly the USB versions of these are 2KRO not NKRO like the PS/2 ones. Good deal.


Mine has cherry brown switches  :blank:

Browns should have been expected.
Title: Re: Cherry MX 8000, G80-8200HUAUS $45 OBO shipped
Post by: nubbinator on Sat, 21 March 2015, 19:13:22


These are 100% compatible with your average 87/104 key. Despite the article numbers they usually have browns, or occasionally clears not blacks. Sadly the USB versions of these are 2KRO not NKRO like the PS/2 ones. Good deal.


Mine has cherry brown switches  :blank:

Browns should have been expected.

And they should be nice and broken in Browns.

And like I said in the OP, I'm more than willing to take some switches off people's hands to do some terrible lube testing I want to do.
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Title: Re: Cherry MX 8000, G80-8200HUAUS $45 OBO shipped
Post by: nubbinator on Sat, 21 March 2015, 20:48:25
I probably need 20 or so.  I have some terrible terrible things I want to do to them.  Think like the infamous alternative heatsink TIM review from the early web 2.0 days.
Title: Re: Cherry MX 8000, G80-8200HUAUS $45 OBO shipped
Post by: korrelate on Sat, 21 March 2015, 21:19:16
my favorite thing about these boards: numpad keys are ds with NO secondary legends... I never thought I'd see these in the wild. much good karma to you, nubs for posting these boards!
Title: Re: Cherry MX 8000, G80-8200HUAUS $45 OBO shipped
Post by: nubbinator on Sat, 21 March 2015, 21:28:05
my favorite thing about these boards: numpad keys are ds with NO secondary legends... I never thought I'd see these in the wild. much good karma to you, nubs for posting these boards!

I'm just sad I forgot to grab one for myself until it was the last one.  Then it went to someone else.
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