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Title: Identify this topre slider
Post by: dan002 on Thu, 19 November 2015, 08:56:33: Hello, when I purchased my HHKB the seller included a topre to mx slider.
Am I right to identify the slider as 3D printed? Perhaps businesses are now selling these, but I don't know about them.
Bellow I have attatched some pictures.
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Top view of topre mx slider
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Buttom view of topre mx slider
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Side view of topre mx slider
Title: Re: Identify this topre slider
Post by: SpAmRaY on Thu, 19 November 2015, 08:57:40: Yes that's 3D printed.
Title: Re: Identify this topre slider
Post by: Bromono on Thu, 19 November 2015, 09:02:38: Quote from: dan002 on Thu, 19 November 2015, 08:56:33
Hello, when I purchased my HHKB the seller included a topre to mx slider.
Am I right to identify the slider as 3D printed? Perhaps businesses are now selling these, but I don't know about them.
Bellow I have attatched some pictures.
(Attachment Link)
Top view of topre mx slider
(Attachment Link)
Buttom view of topre mx slider
(Attachment Link)
Side view of topre mx slider

Looks like 3d printed one from shapeways. be careful putting caps on them. the stem breaks off easily.
Title: Re: Identify this topre slider
Post by: dan002 on Thu, 19 November 2015, 09:12:51: Just holding the slider between my fingers it definitely felt very brittle. So this is how folks are making their HHKB's nova touch?
Title: Re: Identify this topre slider
Post by: absyrd on Thu, 19 November 2015, 09:14:09: Quote from: dan002 on Thu, 19 November 2015, 09:12:51
Just holding the slider between my fingers it definitely felt very brittle. So this is how folks are making their HHKB's nova touch?

No. They are buying Novatouches and harvesting their sliders.
Title: Re: Identify this topre slider
Post by: dan002 on Thu, 19 November 2015, 09:26:09: Oh wow very interesting. I did not know cooler master was doing that kind of switch.
Title: Re: Identify this topre slider
Post by: absyrd on Thu, 19 November 2015, 10:07:14: Quote from: dan002 on Thu, 19 November 2015, 09:26:09
Oh wow very interesting. I did not know cooler master was doing that kind of switch.

They should have called it The Abomination.
Title: Re: Identify this topre slider
Post by: Homenubbie on Thu, 19 November 2015, 10:18:13: Anybody have a link?
Title: Re: Identify this topre slider
Post by: keshley on Thu, 19 November 2015, 10:19:37: Its on shapeways. Do a search for topre mx slider.
Title: Re: Identify this topre slider
Post by: dan002 on Thu, 19 November 2015, 11:12:00: A link to Topre MX hybrid on shapeways (http://www.shapeways.com/product/T69XQA4Q3/topre-to-mx-slider-v2-0beta)

At 6.65$ a slider that would be 399$ for a complete HHKB mod! Much cheaper to, as absyrd said, harvest them from a CM Storm NovaTouch TKL or a noppoo.
Title: Re: Identify this topre slider
Post by: SpAmRaY on Thu, 19 November 2015, 11:19:04: Quote from: dan002 on Thu, 19 November 2015, 11:12:00
A link to Topre MX hybrid on shapeways (http://www.shapeways.com/product/T69XQA4Q3/topre-to-mx-slider-v2-0beta)

At 6.65$ a slider that would be 399$ for a complete HHKB mod! Much cheaper to, as absyrd said, harvest them from a CM Storm NovaTouch TKL or a noppoo.

Or better yet very soon you will be able to buy sliders from ctrlalt.io
Title: Re: Identify this topre slider
Post by: keshley on Thu, 19 November 2015, 12:48:21: Quote from: SpAmRaY on Thu, 19 November 2015, 11:19:04
Quote from: dan002 on Thu, 19 November 2015, 11:12:00
A link to Topre MX hybrid on shapeways (http://www.shapeways.com/product/T69XQA4Q3/topre-to-mx-slider-v2-0beta)

At 6.65$ a slider that would be 399$ for a complete HHKB mod! Much cheaper to, as absyrd said, harvest them from a CM Storm NovaTouch TKL or a noppoo.

Or better yet very soon you will be able to buy sliders from ctrlalt.io

That's what I'm waiting for. You know, for the Novatouch that I harvested the sliders from...