Hi all,
I am the recent owner of a Realforce 87U 45g uniform which I purchased from another user. This replaces an old HHKB Lite that I have used and abused for over 10 years and x jobs. The move up to topre is lovely, I'm in love, etc.
My one main issue is with the spacebar. For one thing it feels pretty weird (super light). I did a little investigation and found that it is missing the spring that is supposed to sit on top of the switch.* Does anyone know where I can find a new one?
The other issue is its loud, weird, pingy noise. I have hacked a crap fix by wrapping some 2 cent (euro) coins in electrical tape to buffer the bottoming out. I saw some pictures of newer HHKB Pros that have little rubber bumpers in between the switch and the stabilizers. Is that right? Does anyone know of mods that work well? (my dumb "mod" does mitigate the sound at the expense of the feel since the key doesn't depress all of the way. Still, much better) I think one of the mods is supposedly removing the spring which is why I probably am in the position I am now. I don't like the feel of that and it also doesn't work.
TL;DR thorp missing spacebar spring: source? loud spacebar: mods ?
* To be fair to the guy I bought it from, he had bought it from someone else and never noticed the missing spring. He nicely offered his spring from his own HHKB2 but I am not trying to trade my pain and sorrow for his.