Got a source on that? I’ve seen originally white ABS keycaps from circa 2010 which were yellowed to a nice orange color, presumably due to BFRs in the plastic mix. I know the EU bans certain uses of BFRs, but I’m not sure use in ABS keycaps falls into any of those. Does GMK have a statement about not using flame retardants in their plastic anymore? Google turns up zero sources with any information about GMK and yellowing plastic.
Anyway, I still maintain the original blue color of those Adler keycaps is quite a bit nicer than the yellowed version, though it has certainly aged better than many other ABS colors from the 80s.
Either way, the marketing copy on keychatter.com is super silly, even after you get past the first few Fifty Shades of Gray paragraphs: “thanks to a serendipitous flaw in the plastic mixture, they aged over time to a beautiful teal color [...] After long negotiations, GMK, a German electronic design firm that now owns the original Cherry keycap molds and manufacturing equipment, has agreed to produce 100% authentic replicas of the Triumph Adler Dario 286 keycap set. Because GMK has to carefully mix and replicate the unique teal granulate [...]”.
(a) This isn’t a “serendipitous flaw”, it’s just the totally normal expected behavior of BFR-filled ABS plastics. (b) This revival is obviously not a “100% authentic replica”. (c) “Granulate” isn’t even a noun... wtf is a “unique teal granulate”?
All the best to all you “goth sex man-god politician and keycap deities” out there though.
One or two other people said at the beginning of the thread that I should have used bright blue. It made no sense then and it still doesn't now. Regardless of how the set looked when fresh, it's iconic and beautiful
precisely because of the teal. The teal is the entire raison d'etre of the set. If you want to make GMK Raindrop, that's great, but it's not an alternative to this. It sounds like you just don't like teal, in which case this is definitely the wrong buy for you. (Correct solution: click "back")
Also, whether or not current GMK formulations will yellow (and I'll note I've never seen a GMK set that's yellowed in any way so far), that's not a problem exclusive to this GB. You might as well go into every other GMK thread and warn them their colors may not look good in the future. That would, of course, make no sense whatsoever--and you're not doing it--so why bring it up here?
Expected behavior or not,
of course it was a serendipitous flaw, at least for anyone who finds beauty in the teal (again, if you don't, nobody is forcing you to join the buy). With a better formulation, it'd never have aged the way it did, and this only adds to the mystique of the set. And of course it's authentic, being manufactured on the original equipment.
As far as I can tell you just came here to be pedantic and grind an axe (? not sure why, I have never been anything but respectful to you). I hope it's out of your system and this post has cleared things up for you.
