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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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