Yeah that’s a phantom pcb with stainless steel plate in a yellow plastic case

Thanks :)

I do use all these boards and I cycle my work keyboard. They’re all similar switches and tuned the same…..because that’s what I like. 😁

The bright yellow at the top or the oranger one towards the bottom? The top one is a phantom with holy Tom switches, the bottom one is KBD8x with U4T switches

That is the cheap high profile case from Ali expires with the stainless steel weight in the bottom - PCB is either GH60 / GON60 or something of that ilk, old tho as has mini usb, and cherry beige double shots

The very top left? That’s a cherry double shot set from the early 90s that has yellowed badly

I think that’s a KBD66

Hahaha - you actually reckon it’s that much? Like - it’s a literally fraction of the money I’ve spent owning a car, or paying my mortgage. And it’s over about 12 years. I think on keyboards I spend maybe £1k a year. At least half the picture is junk from China - I don’t really have many expensive single boards.

If I went on mastermind my specialist subject would be cherry. I also have 40+ vintage cherry boards, Keysets and the like.

My drug problem is a problem 🤣 not building keyboards in my leisure time because I like building keyboards.

OTD The Cheat

That actually has og pbt Dyesubs on it - there is 3 sets there on dif boards

It is that

Nah I disagree. Over 10 years of building keyboards and you only get to build them once, then they’re built. I’ve also built at least 4 different full sound systems that are in my loft, maybe 50 odd guitar stomp boxes and a handful of synths. just like building electronics.

Yeah I have the full spectrum of cherry beige sets - from beige, to yellow 😁

Shift as enter key would send me nuts! but nice keyboard :)

try it and find out - topre is nice. expensive, but nice. just part of the rich tapestry of keyboards. Don't assume you wouldn't like it and not try it.

the wire has to go in a slot in the middle of the stab so you can't push the stab part back in with the wire in hte way, the stab bit needs to go in and the wire needs to go back in the slot in the middle of the bit that's come out, otherwise the other side won't go up and down (the point of the stab)

well if you're going to do it that way - with tweezers, you need to push that bit of stab wire up and out the way so you can get the little bit back in - but you need to put the stab in so that the wire goes in the middle - so it's a bit of a muck about and quite difficult, but it is possible. but if you don't know what you're trying to do you may just break it completely. the best / least risk way would be to desolder the board entirely and fix it and then put it back together - but if you are not experienced desoldering can sometimes break everything entirely too! if you're UK I can fix this for you.

really you need to take that to pieces and put the stab back together and solder it back up again. but - if you're a real maverick you can do it with tweezers and brute force but it involves pushing the wire out under the plate until you basically can't see it and it's a real muck about. only two options really.