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geekhack Community => New Members => Topic started by: luke-nukem on Thu, 18 February 2016, 19:13:13
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Hi all. I'd been lurking for awhile now, and had been using an ancient old AT-101 keyboard (complete with large DIN plug, and 8086 compatibility mode). The buttons are white Alps I think, and unless I hit them dead center, they tended to be quite friction-ee...
I've since switched to a Ducky Shine 4 with MX browns :)
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Welcome to Geekhack!
I wonder if you could lube the AT-101 - might breath a bit more life back into it ...
I have three Duckys, but my newest one is a Shine 3 (Yellow Edition). How do you like the MX browns compared to the Alps?
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I think the problem with the 101 is the keys wobble slightly and the shaft grinds on the sides, causing the friction.
Really loving the Ducky, it's quiet, and I'm not slamming the the keys as hard since the activation point is sooner rather than bottoming out :)
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I think the problem with the 101 is the keys wobble slightly and the shaft grinds on the sides, causing the friction.
Really loving the Ducky, it's quiet, and I'm not slamming the the keys as hard since the activation point is sooner rather than bottoming out :)
On pretty much all my keyboards there is some lateral motion of the keycaps. More so with taller keycaps, like OEM. I've always considered that normal.
I bottom out all the time, except on MX clears where I only bottom out most of the time. I did try O-rings once, but that reduced the key travel and felt weird.
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Oh I agree that it's normal, but this was really quite bad with the wobble and grind. May have been a tad too old.
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Oh I agree that it's normal, but this was really quite bad with the wobble and grind. May have been a tad too old.
Grind could be dust caught in the slider. Or hairs or food, depending on where/how the keyboard was previously stored.
I rescued an NEC keyboard that someone was using as a footrest. It has a 0.5cm layer of hair and food all over the plate - took a bit of cleaning :eek: