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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: alipstadt on Wed, 03 February 2010, 18:19:47
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And I got my first Filco yesterday, and the keys were a bit light, and I was curious, and the other one was in view, and I was bored:
(http://www.lipstadt.com/pub/filco_swap_sm.jpg)
Err yeah. And I need to clean those keys. Ok, I'll be quiet now.
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Yup, my AEKII is looking a bit naked at the moment. In the meantime, I did the rest of the interior letter sized keys.
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Speaking of, is there a cheap source of harvestable double shot Alps?
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I see your Focus doesn't have a large, red Esc key.
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Arg, the U key was intermittent. I fiddled with it for a bit, and now it functions but the tactile and audible feedback is just slightly different than every other key, but enough that I notice. I really don't want to send this in. Can someone tell me how to safely take apart one of these Fukkas? I'm out at a cafe at the moment, so I won't be doing it right now, but I'd rather not have to send in an otherwise great keyboard.
BTW, I think I like the Apple keys better, giving more of a thunk than the thinner Filcos.
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Ugh, the backplate was messed up, which I screwed up further. I know it wasn't me initially, because I opened another keyswitch to check what the plate should look like, but I made matters worse when trying to put it back (the slight bend became a bigger one). Now the U requires a ridiculous amount of force to trigger; I need a new plate, or a new switch.
Any idea where I can get one replacement switch?
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Ripster, what's the mount compatibility of these this switches? Could I just pull one from an AEK? What else might work?
I looked at the pics of a Filco Zero teardown, the Fukka switches look like through hole pcb mounts, is that correct?
I know where to order Cherry switches; is there no component store that stocks these?
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ALPS (real and "compatible") can be swapped out with no problem. Bigpook put real ALPS complicated blacks from a Dell into his Filco Zero, so you should have no problems swapping around switches.
I don't know of a component shop that carries ALPS-compatible switches, though.
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Ok, well there is one AEKII switch that isn't so dampened any more. Should make a nice caps lock key. Then again, let's see what donor boards are on the 'bay.
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One lot of these ought to do it. (http://cgi.ebay.com/Lot-of-6-Dell-AT101W-AT-101W-Keyboard-Nice_W0QQitemZ350313180698QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPCA_Mice_Trackballs?hash=item51904aee1a)
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Actually, I like the clicky ALPS more than the dampened ones. I just decided that the AEKII (really, just decided, had the case open and everything) was in too good of a condition to tear down. Besides, 6 donor keyboards for $66 shipped is better than one at $60, esp. since I have a SGI fetish and would again finding myself not wanting to kill a keyboard :-)
No such sentimentality over those 6 Dells.
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Hmmm. Can I use the leaf from the Fukka?
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Well, I'll have to wait to find one of those. Buying keyboards for my keyboards, ugh.:fear: