Excellent looking project, hope it gets enough traction to go forward!
Muirium wrote: 21 Aug 2022, 11:38
Indeed. Hopefully
these switches deserve their posh new home. I like the caps, but they’ve got that Stackpole vibe which makes me very wary!
The "staircase" profile tends to do that. Oddly enough, this is also what (partly) contributes to the switches being as good as they are. I tried printing some resin keycaps in DES profile (
open source keycap profile) with a modified mount to fit on Marquardt Switches, with an angled stem in order to make them mount flush with the keycap.
While the new keycaps looks nice and improves the sound due to the extra mass, it adds the possibility of off-center keypresses, which adds some severe friction (possibly called binding, but in this context it's dynamic rather than static friction which is commonly experienced on Alps/SI switches). It's quite similar to what one might experience from the bottom row of SI keycaps.
TNT wrote: 19 Dec 2022, 20:58
fricked wrote: 25 Aug 2022, 00:19
Muirium wrote: 21 Aug 2022, 11:38
Indeed. Hopefully
these switches deserve their posh new home. I like the caps, but they’ve got that Stackpole vibe which makes me very wary!
Mine I cleaned and "lubed" with RO-59 and I think they are excellent! Smooth, no binding and of course a very fun click
Btw. I can totally agree. Even uncleaned they are quite nice, but put a little elbow grease in there and they enter an entirely different league. What makes the whole deal even sweeter is that you can get them for quite a cheap price ... If you're willing to pay shipping costs for a bigass old typewriter that is
I didn't try to give them additional love though, as they are quite nice with the stock keycaps. The original typewriter was in quite bad condition. Additional love might be able to solve this problem, but for now, the project is shelved (along with several other projects).
