Keycaps are SP white on black doubleshot, standard font.

It looks very good, even have better material, albeit being a copy.
But feng mentioned that the case dimension has been tweaked with to make it a bit thinner.

Yeah, what he said.
Please don't lube clicky switches. More often than not, it's a waste of time.
You'll loose the click if you can't apply the lube as thin as possible. At that rate, will you even feel the smoothness?

The clicky sound will not be muted, not all of them.
Do you even lube?


You'll end up with uneven clicky feel all over the place.
Some will click loudy, some soft, some not at all. This is affected by the free moving slider of the clicky switches, which also affects the key feel.
In the end, it's uneven key feel all over the board.

Or......

I have a magical fix for you


This post has been edited by kaiserreich: Aug 22 2013, 08:26 PM

If it is so hard for you to reproduce the problem, the people fixing your keyboard is not going to sit there and try to reproduce it all day. He/she is not paid to do that.

He will try 5 minit, no problem, then send back to you.

Boss, you so big DUCKY customer, cannot influence them fix the stabilizer meh?
Options:
1. Use back old style WYSE keyboard Cherry stabilizer
2. Remold the stabilizer inner portion, so that it is similar to how the modders do it
see: http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=34759.0

That's cause the bloody plate designers don't design for plate mount cherry stabs.
Plate mount cherry stabs can be mounted before or after, by just removing a few switches.

In that sense, if you have a plate mount stab board and want to do the stabilizer mod, it's pretty easy.

This also hapenned to another Forummer's RK9000 who asked me to fix it for him.
When he sent it for warranty, they said liquid damage

This post has been edited by kaiserreich: Aug 26 2013, 07:38 AM

Same OEM, but different material used.
RK9000 PCB material is probably like FILCO 1st Gen.
QFR has almost similar PCB like the RK9000 but not 100% sure.

FILCO 2nd Gen, the current generation, has a higher quality PCB.

Don't say like that.
I am still here, but I am developing antibody already.

Not so 'sakit keyboard ' like you all

I use denture tabs. Tesco brand.

Put keycaps, add 3 or 4 Tabs for a set, and leave it for 30minutes.

Come back drain and dry. Clean as a whistle, and you get the minty smell too.

Can get from Guardian Watson.
Ask for Denture Tabs, or Polident

Where da drillz bro?
You say cantek but no drillz.

What did you buy this time?

Probably same guy handling your mail is stealing stuff.
He thinks its useful since it has the usps stuff on it. Open up and see a piece of swiss cheese made of metal. Couldn't eat it, so he threw it away.

That's how you get epilepsy

This post has been edited by kaiserreich: Sep 2 2013, 05:00 PM

Same OEM does not mean same quality.
The selling price, is.

Just compare PCB material used for RW vs FILCO.
It says a lot.

This post has been edited by kaiserreich: Sep 2 2013, 09:56 PM

The misconception I used to have is, if it comes from same OEM it must have the same build quality.
Then i realized, nope, that's the wrong concept. It does not apply for all.

A story my friend used to share.
Acson and York Aircon comes from the same factory. Don't believe me? Go check out the design of a common York unit vs an Acson unit.

So he told me, when he worked there, they just stick the brand badge based on orders, same QC and all.
In this case, Acson and York has the same quality, just different badge. Do take this with a grain of salt, as all this is based on hearsay.

In the case of Costar branded keyboards, the devil is in the PCB material
QFR, RW etc uses 1 layer PCB. Not sure of the material type but definitely not FR4 if FILCO had to take an effort to promote that. Comparing FILCO with RW or QFR, the solder mask feels more robust, and that it is of FR4 with 2 layer routing. In this case, production cost would be higher. No company would increase production cost if it does not come with better build quality. And based on my first hand experience, FILCO PCB is better built.