Author Topic: 'cause I was bored. (Read 3941 times)

alipstadt · « **on:** Wed, 03 February 2010, 18:19:47 »

And I got my first Filco yesterday, and the keys were a bit light, and I was curious, and the other one was in view, and I was bored:

Err yeah. And I need to clean those keys. Ok, I'll be quiet now.

alipstadt · « **Reply #1 on:** Wed, 03 February 2010, 18:41:10 »

Yup, my AEKII is looking a bit naked at the moment. In the meantime, I did the rest of the interior letter sized keys.

alipstadt · « **Reply #2 on:** Wed, 03 February 2010, 18:48:12 »

Speaking of, is there a cheap source of harvestable double shot Alps?

microsoft windows · « **Reply #3 on:** Wed, 03 February 2010, 19:25:29 »

I see your Focus doesn't have a large, red Esc key.

alipstadt · « **Reply #4 on:** Wed, 03 February 2010, 21:52:26 »

Arg, the U key was intermittent. I fiddled with it for a bit, and now it functions but the tactile and audible feedback is just slightly different than every other key, but enough that I notice. I really don't want to send this in. Can someone tell me how to safely take apart one of these Fukkas? I'm out at a cafe at the moment, so I won't be doing it right now, but I'd rather not have to send in an otherwise great keyboard.

BTW, I think I like the Apple keys better, giving more of a thunk than the thinner Filcos.

alipstadt · « **Reply #5 on:** Thu, 04 February 2010, 02:06:44 »

Ugh, the backplate was messed up, which I screwed up further. I know it wasn't me initially, because I opened another keyswitch to check what the plate should look like, but I made matters worse when trying to put it back (the slight bend became a bigger one). Now the U requires a ridiculous amount of force to trigger; I need a new plate, or a new switch.

Any idea where I can get one replacement switch?

alipstadt · « **Reply #6 on:** Thu, 04 February 2010, 09:31:18 »

Ripster, what's the mount compatibility of these this switches? Could I just pull one from an AEK? What else might work?

I looked at the pics of a Filco Zero teardown, the Fukka switches look like through hole pcb mounts, is that correct?

I know where to order Cherry switches; is there no component store that stocks these?

itlnstln · « **Reply #7 on:** Thu, 04 February 2010, 09:33:16 »

ALPS (real and "compatible") can be swapped out with no problem. Bigpook put real ALPS complicated blacks from a Dell into his Filco Zero, so you should have no problems swapping around switches.

I don't know of a component shop that carries ALPS-compatible switches, though.

alipstadt · « **Reply #8 on:** Thu, 04 February 2010, 09:43:17 »

Ok, well there is one AEKII switch that isn't so dampened any more. Should make a nice caps lock key. Then again, let's see what donor boards are on the 'bay.

alipstadt · « **Reply #9 on:** Thu, 04 February 2010, 10:18:23 »

One lot of these ought to do it.

alipstadt · « **Reply #10 on:** Thu, 04 February 2010, 10:36:22 »

Actually, I like the clicky ALPS more than the dampened ones. I just decided that the AEKII (really, just decided, had the case open and everything) was in too good of a condition to tear down. Besides, 6 donor keyboards for $66 shipped is better than one at $60, esp. since I have a SGI fetish and would again finding myself not wanting to kill a keyboard :-)

No such sentimentality over those 6 Dells.

alipstadt · « **Reply #11 on:** Thu, 04 February 2010, 10:42:45 »

Hmmm. Can I use the leaf from the Fukka?

alipstadt · « **Reply #12 on:** Thu, 04 February 2010, 10:52:37 »

Well, I'll have to wait to find one of those. Buying keyboards for my keyboards, ugh.:fear:

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