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Old March 29th 21, 05:33 AM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
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Default Dream USB Wired Keyboard


$25 full-size wired USB keyboard
GTMX Blue Switches 101 Keys

Beyond dreams, I know, as these are "studded" keyswitches. Meaning a
swtich's two pins are inserted into studs instead of being
soldered;... But, what in hell, does that actually mean, though?

The keycap pops off a "stem", you've already done that. Yanking out
an unsoldered entire cubed assembly beneath, however, reveals there
are four plastic clips that further split the cube into two pieces,
whereupon the keyswitch can be fundamentally accessed: a) the stem
pops out, b) a spring for loading the stem, and c) a side metal leaf
insert that comprises the contact and one-half a mechanical key's
character: 1) a tactile "sound", iin instance, to some graded silent
or in variations semi-silent, whereas the spring itself compres the
other characteristic of a keypress mechanical force rating, e.g.
fingering it hard enough to press down for instancing digital code
sequence generations.

I've the cleaned individual key, pulled them and used CRC canned
contact cleaner (safe for plastic), although there is a grease
product, presumably for low a dielectric constituent, where the grease
is applied with a micro-utility-brush for an "action feel" to the
plunger spring/stem interaction and trace impact upon the stem's
bottoming out. By pressing down the stem, actually, I didn't need to
split the assembly as a straw directional focus attached to the can of
contact cleaner could be directed inside with the stem down for liquid
insertion tolerance. Nicely cleaned up in that instance for any
sticking or whatever had happened when I did.

The rub now comes, as it was immediately evident, from the direct
Korean marketing I obtained then on a keyboard likely to cost now $60.
Exclusive high-end keyboards simply do not cost $25. That would be
too obviously and altogether obscene. Not of course that you could
actually find it -- politics, supply and demand, plague, all take
their toll on the fickle fate of marketing.

Anyway, there's a firmware implementation issue that regularly
surfaces, in its logic it would seem to me, when switching between
operating systems or even just rebooting to a prior state. The
keyboard doesn't make it through the BIOS, sometimes for a soft reboot
that will, other times on occasion for no amount of rebooting to help.
Although once, at the latter instance then physically pulled from the
USB port momentarily and reinserted the issue of its demonizing itself
will be closest to an invariability for coaxing back into the folds of
resolvement.

Still, you got to love it. . . (Phase II)

Started with an order for $3 for 10 Brown switches: soundless but
tactile for limited applications like U.N. conferences when
transcribing before the speakers without disturbing the audience. It
was a No Go -- the Chinese crooks on Ebay are out, at least some: The
guy promised after stealing my money to resolve/reship with a smirk
and 3-finger salute of screw you capitalist pig. Reflect on that:
Ebay isn't called FleaBay without reason. Then it seemed somewhat
sour to me -- Why, in hell, am spending at $30 for 100 keyswitch
assemblages, attempting Chinese cross-matches over disparate models,
for one which will work within a Korean make?;- Hence the initial
lowest viability order on 10 keyswitch units testing if in fact
they'll mate to the keyboard, if, furthermore, Brown keyswitches
indeed should feel like tits;- Clearly there's no end to a match for
ratings in a mixed-forced keyboard construct I'm alluding to.

Except, really an added inexpensive, perhaps considerable, of
indulgence, considering that $3 is then and now -- what Sino-Western
marketing really would like to do to me -- is more like $7 for 10
keyswitch units: Browns and highest-force Greens/Tactile, notably. I
don't do game ratings or appreciate anything remotely suggestive of
slop from rubber-cupped, non-mechanical garbageo.

Nope, all I can do is think at least to a welcome object for moving
key assemblies to lesser used keyboard mappings. That and an option
for desoldering other keys from other mechanical keyboards, although
I'm really not keen on my soldering skill for pulling keys, cleanly
and with absolutely no solder on the two legs, for insertion into
studs intended for leveraging, into them, direct Chinese replacements
and no Mickey-Mouse soldering!
 




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