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jony neuemonic posted:box jades feel like the good version of clears: takes a little extra push to get them moving but then they’re quick and smooth. clears are like typing on a broken keyboard. u fucken take that back 
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Subjunctive posted:the Q10 has two B keys because I guess people who Type Correctly can use either thumb for that key on un-split keyboards. I thought it was silly but I have noticed that I do use both somehow I just put my right alt that I never use as my Q10's second B key, and then my right Ctrl key as the right alt.
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Buck Turgidson posted:browns are the beat switches out there except they too light
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keyboard nerds out there getting rid of the tenkeys only to add more and more b's a cancerous lump of b keys swelling from the middle of the keyboard
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Buck Turgidson posted:browns are the beat switches out there alpaca supremacy
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best switches are clearly U4Ts. my keyboard feels pretty much perfect with them and it sounds good, too
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I've got a big container full of spare Kailh Box Navies and unless I somehow find a heavier switch I should be set for a good long while.
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Babies Getting Rabies posted:best switches are clearly U4Ts. my keyboard feels pretty much perfect with them and it sounds good, too my second favorite switch. i’m a linear ho but if i were forced to use a tactile it’d be my u4ts
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DELETE CASCADE posted:i have a kb with clears and a kb with browns. i prefer the browns idk, i have bunches of shined pbt caps. admittedly i didn't shine them myself, but pbt absolutely can and will shine - it just takes way longer. also pbt dyesub is totally fine, nothing like pad print, at worst you'll get a bit of bleed after several decades
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maybe because i don't HaMmEr oN mY keYs lIkE A GoRiLLa
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Buck Turgidson posted:browns are the beat switches out there i'm still liking my k3 with optical browns but i might get another tester to try the bananas and mints i did stick a white switch for left shift so it's easy to press quickly
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question that needs to be answered on top of how good a ‘board feels to type on is how many typos you make imo blues and browns, are just a smidge too light. is it greens that have the power and strength of clears but the click of blues? I would love to try but tbh idk think it’s necessary, clears still have that threshold to cross and that’s what matters clacky boards may be superior still, and the clack is acceptable whereas the click is tinny and defeating clears are clack-ish, the sound of bottoming out on a solid metal chassis
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echinopsis posted:question that needs to be answered on top of how good a ‘board feels to type on is how many typos you make You want Kailh Box switches if you want the click but with more downforce needed to actuate. The difference between Kailh Box White, Box Jade, and Box Navy is kinda subtle, but I prefer Navy (the stiffest) out of any of them. They use a totally different technology to produce the click as opposed to a Cherry clicky switch so the clicks are less tinny, too.
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i have a 16" sub and force feedback chest and back pieces for maximum keyfeel
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:i have a 16" sub and force feedback chest and back pieces for maximum keyfeel call me
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unless your Typing Experience(tm) is reflected on local seismographs I don’t want your number
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I have a 1984 model m and a 1999 model m and I think I prefer the '99 though the forward slash key is starting to double-press occasionally and idk why
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typing on a keyboard like those giant pianos at the mall
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If I wanted to get a set of metal keycaps made, is that the kind of thing I could just take a CAD file to a local machine shop for? XDA profile so it would just be like 70 copies of the exact same piece. Weirdly hard to find metal keycaps in that profile, I'd think the simplicity of manufacturing would make it easier.
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A machine shop could make them for you from a CAD file, sure, but be prepared for an eye-watering bill. A CNC-milled keycap is going to be at least a two-setup three-axis job involving deep machining with small tools, and significant post-processing and finishing. Even if they can gang up all 70 from a single billet, I'm gonna say it'll be at least four figures, and more depending on what you want the finish to look like. Most of the cost will be in the labor for programming and setting up the machine. Mass produced metal keycaps are probably gonna be done with die casting, which is far cheaper per unit once you've committed to the cost of the die.
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just do em by hand with a burr grinder imo, old world craftsmanship style
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look for the blacksmith with an iron rose and a pile of key caps in his shop window
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sagebrush you should know this: is there a filament you can print stuff with and then just put in a sand mold and cast in aluminum or brass? like where the plastic just evaporates into the sand like lost foam casting does?
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rotor posted:sagebrush you should know this: is there a filament you can print stuff with and then just put in a sand mold and cast in aluminum or brass? like where the plastic just evaporates into the sand like lost foam casting does? wax filament
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picked up the hhkb type-s. took a bit to get used to it after using a regular pro2 for almost a decade but I gotta say I love the plush feel of the type-s.
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rotor posted:sagebrush you should know this: is there a filament you can print stuff with and then just put in a sand mold and cast in aluminum or brass? like where the plastic just evaporates into the sand like lost foam casting does? i'm not aware of any 3d printer materials that would be light enough to do lost foam casting, exactly. especially with a low melting point metal like aluminum, it wouldn't burn away fast enough and you'd probably always have some soot and crud messing up the casting. but there are a variety of burnout resins and filaments that will melt/burn away cleanly in a kiln if you want to do investment casting instead. in fact regular PLA works pretty well for the purpose aiui. and of course you can do regular sand casting with a 3d printed positive no problem.
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Sagebrush posted:i'm not aware of any 3d printer materials that would be light enough to do lost foam casting, exactly. especially with a low melting point metal like aluminum, it wouldn't burn away fast enough and you'd probably always have some soot and crud messing up the casting. but there are a variety of burnout resins and filaments that will melt/burn away cleanly in a kiln if you want to do investment casting instead. in fact regular PLA works pretty well for the purpose aiui. and of course you can do regular sand casting with a 3d printed positive no problem. ugh an extra step? no thanks. I just wanna bury it in sand and go to town. I'm a busy, handsome man with no time for copes and drags and burnouts and other such horseplay.
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Sagebrush posted:aiui John Madden! John Madden!
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Sagebrush posted:i'm not aware of any 3d printer materials that would be light enough to do lost foam casting, exactly. especially with a low melting point metal like aluminum, it wouldn't burn away fast enough and you'd probably always have some soot and crud messing up the casting. but there are a variety of burnout resins and filaments that will melt/burn away cleanly in a kiln if you want to do investment casting instead. in fact regular PLA works pretty well for the purpose aiui. and of course you can do regular sand casting with a 3d printed positive no problem. hrmmm this guy seems to get away with it. Maybe just make the walls real thin? idk. https://youtu.be/jm8Bxo1IVMA
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yeah he prints it out with really thin walls, rams up the sand mold then burns the pla out with a blowtorch before pouring.
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b0red posted:picked up the hhkb type-s. took a bit to get used to it after using a regular pro2 for almost a decade but I gotta say I love the plush feel of the type-s. idk what you’re talking about but I like it
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echinopsis posted:idk what you’re talking about but I like it I’m talking topre 
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i believe the phrase i want to use here is "i love that, for you!" those little alts bug me
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why would you want metal keycaps? i've never tried them before just wondering
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Heavy switches, heavy caps, maximum clicky clacky. At least that's the logic I'm using. I like each keystroke to be as intentional feeling as I can get it, still looking for any switches heavier than Kailh Box Navies.
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InternetOfTwinks posted:Heavy switches, heavy caps, maximum clicky clacky. At least that's the logic I'm using. I like each keystroke to be as intentional feeling as I can get it, still looking for any switches heavier than Kailh Box Navies. Zeal Clickiez are probably your only bet for mx-style switches at this point.
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