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Offline ianxblog

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Hard keys on stabilized domes
« on: Mon, 24 February 2014, 16:09:40 »
I got an Chicony kb-5161 capacitive with hammered domes, and today I got an early Microsoft Natural Keyboard with stabilized domes too. (It's pretty old [it says for windows 95 in the label) and its build quality is pretty amazing, made in mexico..

The problem I generally have with this both keyboards are that the keys are hard, on corners especially.
When I first got the Chicony it was pretty awful to use because some of the keys were much harder than the others.
I totally cleaned it and now it feels much better, but on 1.5/2x keys like Tab, old style ctrl and they feel hard on the corners, and happens on 1x keys too but is obviously less noticeable ass you have to purposely press them in the very corner.

Now with the MS, i didn't anything to it yet and on some keys, whatever its siz, its like you got to press really hard. The corners just suck.

Lubbing somewhat makes it better at least in the chicony, but is there any real way to make it better? I mean, that doesn't happen on regular domes that are directly under keycaps.

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Re: Hard keys on stabilized domes
« Reply #1 on: Mon, 24 February 2014, 16:12:07 »
Rubber gets harder over time and use, just a natural property

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Re: Hard keys on stabilized domes
« Reply #2 on: Mon, 24 February 2014, 16:26:25 »
Rubber gets harder over time and use, just a natural property

It's not the domes that are hard, maybe in the Microsoft, but what I am generally talking is the plastic slider/board just gets (DONT KNOW HOW TO SAY IT IN ENGLISH) lagged when pressing not perfectly on the center.