deskthority

I have a whole boards worth of these I desoldered from a Chicony KB-5191 a while ago. The board itself was basically sitting in some old man's garage for over 20 years so the switches are really clean. From what I can tell, the pale blue slider looks the same as a normal MX blue slider. The housing ...

Quite the opposite actually, the board was quite dirty when I got it. The orange alps originally in the board were so filthy even an ultrasonic cleaner couldn't restore them. For the case I gave it a really good scrub with some warm soapy water and that worked pretty well. The keycaps, however ...

Awesome work, thunderbird! Now there are 3 of us with brown alps 725s (that we know of), or 4 with upper tier tactile alps 725s (brown/neon green)!

IMO the 725 is one of the best alps chassis around - it's certainly the best tactile alps chassis. It's very sturdy for being a plastic construction ...

Finished this board up a while ago, just got around to posting it
Wang 725 with SKCM Browns.

Got an interesting keyboard off ebay for $10. Was hoping for maybe some Alps or Alps clones, but surprisingly got Cherry MX Blacks instead.

Some info -
Made in AUSTRALIA :shock:
PCB Date 07/07/1994
PCB Mount MX Blacks (puke)
Cherry PCB mount stabilisers (very surprising, was expecting costar ...

Any idea if this Canon typewriter has Alps sphericals? It's an AP-7010, but I didn't find any info on it.

Any idea what this keyboard is? I've been eyeing it for a while, and the eBay seller refuses to take off a cap. I got lucky the other day though and bought a NTC board for $20 from him and it ended up having SKCM Blue ALPS.