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Offline spremino

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Filco and Cherry: swapping keycaps?
« on: Fri, 04 September 2009, 12:27:09 »
Hello,

can you move home keys' caps on Filco Majestouch and Cherry G80-3000? I'm used to swap J and K and that wasn't possible on rubber dome keyboards I've owned. Model M allows for that.

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Filco and Cherry: swapping keycaps?
« Reply #1 on: Fri, 04 September 2009, 13:37:32 »
Quote from: spremino;114777
Hello,

can you move home keys' caps on Filco Majestouch and Cherry G80-3000? I'm used to swap J and K and that wasn't possible on rubber dome keyboards I've owned. Model M allows for that.

Thanks

In the same row of the keyboard, you should always be able to swap the keys, and the feel should remain the same.

On most keyboards, each row has a differently contoured key, so switching from different rows can be problematic. On the Model M, the metal backplate is what provides the contour, so all the keys are the same.
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Filco and Cherry: swapping keycaps?
« Reply #2 on: Fri, 04 September 2009, 14:20:57 »
The only you probably wouldn't be able to swap are the non-standard-sized keys like Alt, Ctrl, etc. as stabilizing mechanisms differ slightly from 'board to 'board.  That, and I think Cherry mounts their switches slightly off-center.
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