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Title: Cheapest Topre FN Key?
Post by: Metr0 on Fri, 13 March 2015, 14:58:42

Been looking at the availability of a different coloured FN as I plan to buy a HHKB pretty soon. I've seen some printed ones on shape ways but they look pretty rough, is there any cheap-ish(lol) options for me  ;D

Title: Re: Cheapest Topre FN Key?
Post by: nukec on Sat, 14 March 2015, 04:55:15

It's not the problem of price.. It's a problem that no one is making them..

Title: Re: Cheapest Topre FN Key?
Post by: rowdy on Sat, 14 March 2015, 05:49:50

Bro Caps and Hot Keys Project both have made them, but I don't know of plans for any more to be made in the short term.

Other than that your best bet would be to try to split a full RealForce set with someone.

Title: Re: Cheapest Topre FN Key?
Post by: Metr0 on Sat, 14 March 2015, 10:27:05

Thanks for the reply, I guess I can just keep checking the classifieds and see if any pop up  :-[

Title: Re: Cheapest Topre FN Key?
Post by: TopreFan333 on Mon, 16 March 2015, 11:12:36

I'd be very interested in finding different colored FN keys as well. Strange to me that there's an official pack with ESC and CTRL, but not FN.

Shapeways-fabricated one was too rough to use.

Title: Re: Cheapest Topre FN Key?
Post by: yomammary on Mon, 16 March 2015, 12:35:40

I posted in the classifieds forum (and /r/mechmarket) and someone was willing to get rid of one a month ago. Didn't cost that much either.

Title: Re: Cheapest Topre FN Key?
Post by: kaisiang on Thu, 19 March 2015, 22:20:34

I'm interested too! Looking for Blanks though, so same profile will do.

Title: Re: Cheapest Topre FN Key?
Post by: Timichango on Fri, 20 March 2015, 12:19:05

Quote from: rowdy on Sat, 14 March 2015, 05:49:50

Bro Caps and Hot Keys Project both have made them, but I don't know of plans for any more to be made in the short term.

Other than that your best bet would be to try to split a full RealForce set with someone.

I have both orange and black-on-black realforce sets, and neither have FN keys — just the stupid windows menu key.

I actually want to get some HHKB keys just to de-winblows-ify this thing.

Title: Re: Cheapest Topre FN Key?
Post by: rowdy on Sat, 21 March 2015, 03:09:31

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=70121.0