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Offline TheSoulhunter

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« on: Mon, 14 September 2009, 14:08:13 »
Not Ebay, but whats this? Arent this MX keycaps?

Blue, Green, Red, Yellow, $0.60 each... Also, keypads (without housing tho) and legend-able keycaps.

Well, if someone around Germany wants to order something there, drop me a PM, we can share shipping costs! :)
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« Reply #1 on: Mon, 14 September 2009, 14:37:59 »
That's awesome. Since those are flat profile, you don't have to worry about switching a whole keyboard worth of keycaps.
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« Reply #2 on: Mon, 14 September 2009, 17:09:30 »
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Nonstandard shape and flat as a pancake.

Would certainly give your keyboard a different look.

Maybe if you don't like "chicklet", but you do like a flat keyboard...
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« Reply #3 on: Mon, 14 September 2009, 18:20:25 »
I like the old-fashioned shape of the beige ones.
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« Reply #4 on: Mon, 14 September 2009, 19:00:06 »
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I like the old-fashioned shape of the beige ones.

I'd like to get a set of those for a black keyboard, but I don't have enough black keyboards...oh well.
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« Reply #5 on: Mon, 14 September 2009, 19:02:16 »
The beige ones would look really nice on a black g80-3000
Can't get enough of them ALPS

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« Reply #6 on: Mon, 14 September 2009, 19:30:39 »
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The beige ones would look really nice on a black g80-3000

I agree.  I wish they were more white, though.  Beige is too vintage for this application, IMO.


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« Reply #7 on: Mon, 14 September 2009, 20:21:56 »
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I agree.  I wish they were more white, though.  Beige is too vintage for this application, IMO.

The shape of the keys makes sense in beige. Not that the option of white wouldn't be nice...
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« Reply #8 on: Mon, 14 September 2009, 21:53:15 »
the colour keycaps can it fit filco?

anyone bought from there hows is the keycap quality?

thanks.

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« Reply #9 on: Tue, 15 September 2009, 04:23:05 »

what does this look like compared to filcos?
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« Reply #10 on: Tue, 15 September 2009, 07:12:36 »
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what does this look like compared to filcos?

Cheap, like knock-off legos.
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Tactile Apple AEKII (Cream damped ALPS), Filco FKBN91M/JB (Japanese Tenkeyless), Cherry G84-5200, Cherry G84-4100LPAUS, Datalux Spacesaver(Cherry ML), Redragon Devarajas K556 RGB, Newmen GM711, Poker II (Cherry MX Clear), Logitech G910 Orion Spark, Logitech K840
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« Reply #11 on: Tue, 15 September 2009, 07:54:22 »
They look shorter than Filco caps.  The only problem is, they don't have caps for the larger keys (Shift, Enter, etc.).


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« Reply #12 on: Tue, 29 September 2009, 10:14:01 »
I ordered 5 of the relegendable ones to compare with the Genovation ones .  These ones look lower profile.

I also found these:

http://www.umd.com.au/itd/products/ksi_kc124.html
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« Reply #13 on: Thu, 01 October 2009, 09:54:12 »
A friend send me some images...



Size comparison to a Filco cap...


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« Reply #14 on: Thu, 01 October 2009, 12:31:03 »
They still look like fake legos...you know, the ones that flex.
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« Reply #15 on: Thu, 01 October 2009, 21:34:56 »
phew, those are super low profile. Let us know what your friend thinks of them

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« Reply #16 on: Wed, 07 October 2009, 13:32:49 »
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A friend send me some images...


Where are those low profile ones from??

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« Reply #17 on: Wed, 07 October 2009, 13:36:18 »
since the key is still moving the same distance, and the key top is the same size, would these not feel pretty much identical, other than making the keyboard less tall?

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« Reply #18 on: Mon, 12 April 2010, 20:58:24 »
I bought 20 each of the red and blue, and they arrived today (about a week after ordering).  They fit fine and look okay (even though they're "square") on my Filco, other than the obvious difference in height.

I mainly bought them to replace the legend-able keycaps (that I don't use) above the FKeys on my ricercar SPOS.  Will do that swapout at work tomorrow, and post pictures.  I've already replaced all the other keys on that board (that I could) with doubleshots from a G81-1800 w/MY switches.

I was sitting there at my desk at work with a keycap puller swapping things around, and a coworker comes in, "What the HELL are you doing?"  "Oh, just swapping cheap keycaps for doubleshots."  "Doubleshots?"  and by then another coworker had come up behind him, and proceeded to instruct him on the differences, why they were better, and I laid out one of each on the desk to show the difference...
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Cherry:  MX11800 (x2), G86-6241 "Ricercar SPOS"
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« Reply #19 on: Tue, 13 April 2010, 11:47:18 »
On a ricercar SPOS:

Keyboards:
IBM Model Ms: 51G8572 (\'94, \'96), 1391401 (\'90), 1369050 (\'95, Dell), 1394946 (\'89 Industrial)
Unicomp Model Ms:  Customizer 104, SpaceSaver 104
Chicony: KB-5181, KB-5191
Cherry:  MX11800 (x2), G86-6241 "Ricercar SPOS"
Filco: FKBN87M/EB x2, Cherry Browns
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« Reply #20 on: Tue, 13 April 2010, 14:46:36 »
hmm yeah i hate relengable keycaps {tested some of a board i got from didj}, could do with some of those until click clack gets his stuff in order...
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« Reply #21 on: Tue, 13 April 2010, 15:02:02 »
Did anyone put an order in for the beige keys? They'd make interesting arrow keys, if only they were taller.

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« Reply #22 on: Tue, 13 April 2010, 15:36:33 »
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Did anyone put an order in for the beige keys? They'd make interesting arrow keys, if only they were taller.


I will probably get some on my next order.
Keyboards:
IBM Model Ms: 51G8572 (\'94, \'96), 1391401 (\'90), 1369050 (\'95, Dell), 1394946 (\'89 Industrial)
Unicomp Model Ms:  Customizer 104, SpaceSaver 104
Chicony: KB-5181, KB-5191
Cherry:  MX11800 (x2), G86-6241 "Ricercar SPOS"
Filco: FKBN87M/EB x2, Cherry Browns
Sold: Matias Tactile Pro 1.0 (x2), Kensington Studioboard Mechanical, Scorpius M10, AEK II (x2), Compaq 11900 (x2), IBM Model F (AT), Filco FKB104MC/EB
Available Free for Cost of Shipping: ABS M1, Solidtek KB-6600ABU, KeyTronic KB101Plus