Author Topic: Wang 724 – Alps dye-sub caps & pink/salmon (or possibly orange) switches  (Read 1923 times)

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Dammit, gone already.  And I think I need one of those for my Kingsaver.

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I had an offer out on this one so I snagged it. I hope it has good pink or (preferably) orange switches, as I need both switches and caps for my Kingsaver.
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I found a $25 rubber dome board with Alps compatible caps that looks like it might work, but I've been looking for a Wang.  Sad I missed on, but congrats intelli.

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I found a $25 rubber dome board with Alps compatible caps that looks like it might work, but I've been looking for a Wang.  Sad I missed on, but congrats intelli.

Brace yourself for wang jokes. j/k :)

Btw, chances are that board will have complicated black alps as well.

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The Wang in OP or the one I bought?  The keyboard I bought is this one and everything I've seen says it's a rubber dome.  I found another interesting Alps style board I may grab just for the alphas.

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Awww I just checked eBay for one of these earlier today and I didn't find anything. Nice get.

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The Wang in OP or the one I bought?  The keyboard I bought is this one and everything I've seen says it's a rubber dome.  I found another interesting Alps style board I may grab just for the alphas.

I was talking about the Wang board in OP.

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I found a $25 rubber dome board with Alps compatible caps that looks like it might work, but I've been looking for a Wang.  Sad I missed on, but congrats intelli.

Thanks -- I hope another one shows up soon for you.

It will be much less of a find if it turns out to have black switches. Yucky.
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The keyboard I bought is this one and everything I've seen says it's a rubber dome.
That looks like pad printed ABS keycaps to me, with a caps lock that won’t fit on your kingsaver?

I wonder if Apple AEK II caps would do the job? There are several of those on auction at any given time.

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can i have case?

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For the cost of shipping, no problem.
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The keyboard I bought is this one and everything I've seen says it's a rubber dome.
That looks like pad printed ABS keycaps to me, with a caps lock that won’t fit on your kingsaver?

I wonder if Apple AEK II caps would do the job? There are several of those on auction at any given time.

Funky sideways stems on the AEK II function row.

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Oh, I didn’t realize that the Kingsaver (and this Wang) have a rightmost column (backspace, backslash, enter, right shift) that are all .25 units longer than standard. Reminds me of this Magitronic that I sadly didn’t win (did someone here get it?) where all the column on the right is .25 units *shorter* than standard: http://www.ebay.com/itm/360944405689?orig_cvip=true