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Title: What do people normally do with leftover keys from a set?
Post by: MJL on Mon, 17 October 2016, 03:10:43: Just ordered a Leopold FC660M and a full Leopold PBT dye-sub keycap set from South Korea. I wonder what people normally do with the left over keys after they've finished: do they sell the remainder off or do they keep the set complete so that when they sell the keyboard off they can put the original keys back on and still have a complete (supplementary) set for just in case they go to a bigger board?

Please your thoughts, what do you do? Thank you in advance.
Title: Re: What do people normally do with leftover keys from a set?
Post by: potatobot on Mon, 17 October 2016, 03:23:01: Keep them, coz you are right, you might sell your current board or sell the keycaps.

Either way its better to keep the complete set.

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Title: Re: What do people normally do with leftover keys from a set?
Post by: wodan on Mon, 17 October 2016, 03:33:17: Come up with a decent storage solution for your keycap sets. I really recommend keeping individual kits together.

My preferred solution are these organizers:
https://deskthority.net/keyboards-f2/storing-sorted-things-t14184.html#p319762 (https://deskthority.net/keyboards-f2/storing-sorted-things-t14184.html#p319762)

As mentioned before, never break up the kits! You keyboard may break or you might come across a keyboard you like more ... or you might want to sell the caps to free some money for other things. In all these cases, you will regret having split up the kits.
Title: Re: What do people normally do with leftover keys from a set?
Post by: MJL on Mon, 17 October 2016, 03:43:26: Thank you, that's settled then, I've got plenty of space to store them and don't need the money.
Title: Re: What do people normally do with leftover keys from a set?
Post by: benderkey on Mon, 17 October 2016, 10:13:14: (http://i.imgur.com/V5VsFKn.jpg)

Intense!
Title: Re: What do people normally do with leftover keys from a set?
Post by: KHAANNN on Mon, 17 October 2016, 14:13:31: Indeed nice storage solutions

I just put them in a zip-lock bag, place them deep inside a drawer, and forget about them

I had a storage solution for my DSA collection, but the plastic containers they sell here are toxic, it's a weird cancerous type of plastic, the heavy plastic scent never fades away, so it seems simpler putting keyboard related stuff in zip-locks, sometimes zip-locks inside zip-locks inside zip-locks inside bigger zip-locks
Title: Re: What do people normally do with leftover keys from a set?
Post by: 1swt2gs on Mon, 17 October 2016, 19:17:14: I was thinking of investing in some NKPC keycap holders and hang them up to display in my room.

(https://massdrop-s3.imgix.net/product-images/npkc-keycap-holder/MD-13013_20151116171945_6adad2eba270a7f9.jpg?auto=format&fm=jpg&fit=crop&w=965&h=292&dpr=1)

Cant justify spending 15 dollars on one though (I have quite a few keysets) so I opt'd for zip lock bags in the back of my closet.
Title: Re: What do people normally do with leftover keys from a set?
Post by: potatobot on Mon, 17 October 2016, 20:46:57: is it true that GMK caps scratch each other when they are placed in zippy bags?
Title: Re: What do people normally do with leftover keys from a set?
Post by: KHAANNN on Mon, 17 October 2016, 20:54:19: Quote from: potatobot on Mon, 17 October 2016, 20:46:57
is it true that GMK caps scratch each other when they are placed in zippy bags?

yes :(

during shipping tho
Title: Re: What do people normally do with leftover keys from a set?
Post by: seville57 on Wed, 19 October 2016, 09:58:20: Quote from: MJL on Mon, 17 October 2016, 03:10:43
Just ordered a Leopold FC660M and a full Leopold PBT dye-sub keycap set from South Korea. I wonder what people normally do with the left over keys after they've finished: do they sell the remainder off or do they keep the set complete so that when they sell the keyboard off they can put the original keys back on and still have a complete (supplementary) set for just in case they go to a bigger board?

Please your thoughts, what do you do? Thank you in advance.

I use all of them if the set is 108 keys, I have some 108 keys k - boards. I have some 104 keycaps sets too, so I missin 4 caps.

I have the 104 keys Tai - Hao Miami set, so I bought a second set and used F1 - F4 to get a full 108 keys set some time ago. Now I use 4 artisan keycaps.
Title: Re: What do people normally do with leftover keys from a set?
Post by: Puddsy on Wed, 19 October 2016, 11:39:01: Quote from: potatobot on Mon, 17 October 2016, 20:46:57
is it true that GMK caps scratch each other when they are placed in zippy bags?

Sometimes. There is very little scratching on any of my GMK, and if there is, it's from me doing something stupid with it.

It's not a definite.
Title: Re: What do people normally do with leftover keys from a set?
Post by: chuckdee on Wed, 19 October 2016, 12:24:50: I use these: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00B4NPLKG/
Title: Re: What do people normally do with leftover keys from a set?
Post by: Findecanor on Wed, 19 October 2016, 17:37:28: Quote from: MJL on Mon, 17 October 2016, 03:10:43
Just ordered a Leopold FC660M and a full Leopold PBT dye-sub keycap set from South Korea.
So, do you have a spare stepped middle-stemmed Caps Lock you are willing to give up?
I saw that this guy/girl (Ashlyn) (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=85197) is looking for a TKL with a stepped Caps Lock .. but apparently already has a Leopold TKL.
Title: Re: What do people normally do with leftover keys from a set?
Post by: MJL on Wed, 19 October 2016, 19:56:04: I am ambivalent towards a stepped capslock key - I have not gotten the set yet (it is in transit from Korea) so discussing it is premature. ( I will have to consider the impact of not keeping the set complete. - The stepped capslock does not make it incomplete yet it may make it easier if I ever want to sell the whole set..... ) I did post in her thread with the link where I bought mine so she is aware of it (and I have not heard anything more).
Title: Re: What do people normally do with leftover keys from a set?
Post by: noisyturtle on Wed, 19 October 2016, 20:49:05: they sealed up in a plastic baggie and tossed in the box of purgatory, never to be seen again.
Title: Re: What do people normally do with leftover keys from a set?
Post by: MJL on Wed, 19 October 2016, 20:57:58: All participants: thanks for the replies and input - am locking the thread now.