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Pictures of the restoration:
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Was it one of these , but in US-ANSI? Yeah, it is not bad.

Yes it is! But mine is US and has no yellowing! I am in the process of cleaning the keys, I finished cleaning the black plastic that the keys mount in and I reassembled everything except putting the keys back in. I think I might wait a ...

So I went to the last MIT swapfest of the season in cambridge MA and I picked up a granite SGI membrane switch keyboard for 10 bucks! I did not know it was membrane switch until I took it apart to clean it! Honestly felt like a mechanical keyboard somewhat similar to my Apple Extended II but a ...

The flash of the camer affects the image a bit but the black keys are 100% solid black! I had them soak for about 45 minutes to an hour, at first they were dark brown/black but I let them sit longer and they came out jet black! The legends are not visible at all, but as long as I don't look at the ...

Only the space bar is ABS on Apple keyboards of this vintage. I don’t know for sure what the rest are made of (PBT?), but it’s definitely not ABS.

The case itself is ABS, so dyeing it will likely end in disaster — the heat will either crack the plastic or cause it to warp. If you can do it at a ...

I'm not to this forum so I will start by sharing my keyboard that I just dyed today! Its an Apple Extended Keyboard II with white ALPS switches from 1989 so it has the good white ALPS switches. I wanted to dye it as soon as I learned it was possible to do so. This summer I have been working on a ...