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geekhack Community => Keyboard Keycaps => Topic started by: Grossmeister on Mon, 12 March 2018, 03:16:19
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I have an old keyboard with scissor switches and some of the keycaps are broken. Keycaps shape is like on old Thinkpad laptops keyboards, not island-style. I tried to search keycap sets, but with no luck. Does anyone produce/sell them separately from keyboard? As for now, the only option I see is to find a used (old, broken) keyboard and use it as a donor.
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Not all scissor switches are the same, so your only real option is to get a donor board.
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Well, I'm talking about the most common one, I guess - the X-type scissors. I have 3 such keyboards and saw many laptops with the same mechanism type, so if there is a store that sells the keycaps that would be very nice.
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Well, I'm talking about the most common one, I guess - the X-type scissors. I have 3 such keyboards and saw many laptops with the same mechanism type, so if there is a store that sells the keycaps that would be very nice.
Yes and every manufacturer has a different way of mounting the scissors to the cap. I have four different laptops at home and each has a different mounting method.
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There always seem to be people selling individual keycaps from all sorts of keyboards on eBay. Have you looked there?
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Of course, but found nothing. Maybe I've searched wrong keywords? :)