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Offline fohat.digs

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Please help me identify this switch
« on: Thu, 08 December 2011, 15:17:19 »
I have tried to comb the switch wikis, but I do not see this one anywhere.

If have have been careless and overlooked it, please accept my groveling apologies.

In my defense, the "search" function on this forum does not seem very cooperative, at least to me. And then, when it comes up empty-handed, it still yet demands a waiting period before another search. WTF ?


This is on a Focus FK6200

There appears to be a stem with a spring and a plunger, activating a rubber dome below. The caps are double-shot, with pegs slightly larger than Alps.


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It is not really a bad-feeling switch, but I will probably sell the board anyway.
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Offline Clickey

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« Reply #1 on: Thu, 08 December 2011, 15:51:21 »
Do you have the keyboard in hand?

This is undocumented in the wikis, and I have not seen it before. If you think it is a rubber dome it probably is.
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« Reply #2 on: Thu, 08 December 2011, 16:07:45 »
Awesome ! "Stump the Chumps"

First I wow the forum with my Elderly/Educational keyboard, now this.

No wonder I got a high "Dork" score along with my "Pure Nerd" status. I will try to dredge up more weird-o keyboards.

I have not taken this one apart, and don't intend to. I mainly need to find it a good home.


Please forgive the pictures. I love my little Panasonic Lumix, but this is closer than it likes to be. Like me, it needs its reading glasses. OK, another edit, I think I got a better picture at last.

Anyway, you can look down and see a rubber dome at the bottom.

I gave a moderate pull on the black plunger that is the "stem" part of the mechanism, to try to see how the spring went in, but I am reluctant to force it or break it. It did not budge so I am leaving it in place.


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« Last Edit: Thu, 08 December 2011, 16:19:29 by fohat.digs »
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“No political truth is of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty: The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands .… may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” —James Madison, Federalist 47
“All the powers of government, legislative, executive, and judiciary, result to the legislative body. The concentrating of these in the same hands, is precisely the definition of despotic government. An ELECTIVE DESPOTISM was not the government we fought for; but one .... in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits, without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.” — Thomas Jefferson, commentary on Federalist 48

Offline Clickey

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« Reply #3 on: Thu, 08 December 2011, 16:21:14 »
On a similar note, I know of a few mechanical switch types that are not documented in the wiki but I am too lazy/cowardly to add them in. I am willing to bet a free cherry doubleshot set, that no1 here can identify this...

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Offline Findecanor

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« Reply #4 on: Thu, 08 December 2011, 16:35:00 »
Interesting ... A spring + plunger over rubber dome reminds me a great deal of the Fujtisu Peerless' mechanism, but it does not look like it.
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Offline Magna224

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« Reply #5 on: Thu, 08 December 2011, 18:11:08 »
Quote from: Clickey;466694
On a similar note, I know of a few mechanical switch types that are not documented in the wiki but I am too lazy/cowardly to add them in. I am willing to bet a free cherry doubleshot set, that no1 here can identify this...

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http://www.google.com/patents?id=OWQzAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA2&dq=4017850&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=4#v=onepage&q=4017850&f=false

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« Last Edit: Thu, 08 December 2011, 18:19:58 by Magna224 »
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If you live in AZ you can try my keyboards. I usually keep plenty of different ALPS and MX and buckling springs.

Offline Clickey

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« Reply #6 on: Thu, 08 December 2011, 20:55:35 »
Touchez sir. PM me your address and I will send you the keyset.
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Offline Oqsy

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« Reply #7 on: Thu, 08 December 2011, 21:34:38 »
Seen the red thing before, but not the OP's. Looks like a common design. Spring/slider with dome.
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