A brilliant score for 2014 
. I wish my SSK had cost me that much when I first bought it two years ago.
Yeah, I've seen how much they go for on eBay lately. People are willing to pay $150-200 for tenkeyless Model Ms...
Dat $4 SSK. GGWP.
Edit: I see "150" stickers on both. $1.50 per keyboard?+tax?
Precisely. Couldn't believe it myself; most other thrift stores price their keyboards a bit higher than that!
Not to get off topic but where in the world did you get those?
They were in some local thrift store, and not one of the major chains like Goodwill, either.
Most of the time, thrift store diving yields nothing of value, but that's how I get most of my mech boards. All but my very first Model M were store scores, along with some of my other boards like the foam-and-foil BTC 5339s, this strange Wang 725 board, the Focus FK-2000 board with white XMs I sold here a while back, and the Dell AT101Ws.
None of those are nearly as valuable as that SSK, though!
I have never had a problem like that, but if there is internal debris it will be hard to get out without a dis-assembly and bolt mod. A very risky last resort before that might be a blast of compressed air directly in to try to get under the foot of the spring hammer.
I figured as much. It surprised me too, because I've never had this problem on my full-size Model Ms or the M2-in other words, every other buckling-spring board I've had.
Still, the SSK deserves a proper refurbishing, bolt mod included.
