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geekhack Community => Keyboard Keycaps => Topic started by: scwoopz on Tue, 20 December 2016, 13:31:50
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Is it worth it buying icecaps if they're PBT (kinda ruins the SA vibrations) and they're only R3? Just wondering your guy's opinions. It's $90 if you were interested.
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The fact that it has no kits for alternate layouts keeps me from getting it. I know they said that they'll make kits eventually but I'd rather wait before I buy the main set.
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The fact that it has no kits for alternate layouts keeps me from getting it. I know they said that they'll make kits eventually but I'd rather wait before I buy the main set.
That's true. Not sure if I'm going in, but there is enough to cover my let's split
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I have an Icecap set and Id have to say it is a huge improvement over ABS SA. In overall sound and the texture of the caps themselves. They arent shiny like ABS-SA and they have a micro texture, which is a good thing. Old SA caps are (IMO) beyond terrible to type on i have a full Carbon SA set and I cant even use it to type really.
I like the new PBT SA caps for sure
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I have an Icecap set and Id have to say it is a huge improvement over ABS SA. In overall sound and the texture of the caps themselves. They arent shiny like ABS-SA and they have a micro texture, which is a good thing. Old SA caps are (IMO) beyond terrible to type on i have a full Carbon SA set and I cant even use it to type really.
I like the new PBT SA caps for sure
Do you just mean the texture or the fully sculpted sets? Do you feel the same way about how GMK feels?
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Really? Then Ice Cap is very different from the Industrial SA set that came after it. Industrial keycaps look and feel identical to the semigloss ABS keycaps we are all used to. In fact, if you didn't turn one over and look at it from the bottom, you'd probably never know it was a dyesub PBT keycap.
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Just, yknow, throwing it out there that if you want to send that Carbon somewhere, my house is a good destination
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Really? Then Ice Cap is very different from the Industrial SA set that came after it. Industrial keycaps look and feel identical to the semigloss ABS keycaps we are all used to. In fact, if you didn't turn one over and look at it from the bottom, you'd probably never know it was a dyesub PBT keycap.
Weird, maybe it was only icecap that has the texture?
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Really? Then Ice Cap is very different from the Industrial SA set that came after it. Industrial keycaps look and feel identical to the semigloss ABS keycaps we are all used to. In fact, if you didn't turn one over and look at it from the bottom, you'd probably never know it was a dyesub PBT keycap.
Weird, maybe it was only icecap that has the texture?
Maybe since Ice Cap was their first stab at this, the texture is actually an imperfection that won't be on the new batch?
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bumpity. Just received my newer ice cap set. I don't notice the texture on the keys but they do feel really nice, my only problem is my set seems to have some keycap legends off centered. So far i've noticed H, I,O,A,X are off, have to find my tape measuring and continue checking but those are just the ones I immediately noticed.
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bumpity. Just received my newer ice cap set. I don't notice the texture on the keys but they do feel really nice, my only problem is my set seems to have some keycap legends off centered. So far i've noticed H, I,O,A,X are off, have to find my tape measuring and continue checking but those are just the ones I immediately noticed.
Anyone else having these issues?
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bumpity. Just received my newer ice cap set. I don't notice the texture on the keys but they do feel really nice, my only problem is my set seems to have some keycap legends off centered. So far i've noticed H, I,O,A,X are off, have to find my tape measuring and continue checking but those are just the ones I immediately noticed.
Anyone else having these issues?
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So I spoke with them and they said that dye sub printing is not always exactly centered and that it had a tolerance of .02mm from any edge, most of my keys were completely centered and it was really only the "i" key that was very noticeably off(though they said just less the .02 so technically acceptable) but they agreed to replace it for free so I got it all worked out.
I'll be selling mine, it's a very bright white and is a nice set but I realized I don't like typing on a "nonsculpted" profile since they're all R3 (just sold my newly acquired SA 1976 set as well).
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The PMK store lists an ALTERNATE kit as out of stock. Did it ever get made? Does anyone have this kit?
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The PMK store lists an ALTERNATE kit as out of stock. Did it ever get made? Does anyone have this kit?
They mentioned adding the kit with the new year. I think they might have updated the site without adding the stock.
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It currently shows availability for the alt kit
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It currently shows availability for the alt kit
Thanks!
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There is a new Ortholinear kit for Ice Cap SA available on PMK now.