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[revbrandon]

Model M keyboards are the best keyboards ever designed; they can ergonomicize the shit out of keyboard designs and stick all kinds of shortcut buttons on them, but unless they bring back the positive clicking of the keys and the overengineered-to-withstand-a-nuclear-blast durability, they ain't shit

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[computolio]

Wait, what happened to it?

If it's dead there are literally tens more where it came from.

[rosceau]

Aw fuck naw, man. I know I started popping the keycaps off mine and scrubbed everything I could pull off it (cable included) in a sinkful of hot soapy water and it came up sparkling and clicking every ding danged which way. What did yours in?

[revbrandon]

Didn't take the keycaps off, but sprayed it off with some hot water and blew it out with the air compressor. Plugged it in, key matrix is stuck together with water and every keypress is pushing a dozen keys. Dunked it in Methyl Hydrate, let it dry for a day, tried it again, doesn't work at all. Chiseled off the plastic caps holding the matrix and keys to the metal plate (such a dumb motherfucking way of holding it together), dried everything off, had to pop the keycaps that time to get the springs to sit, carefully put everything back together, melted caps back onto the plate... Works, but now some of the springs had come loose, of course. Ripped it apart, again, glued the fucking springs with some weak adhesive to the rubber pad, put it all back together, got the back melted back on with our rapidly dwindling supply of plastic, and... some keys still aren't fucking working properly.

It's not "broken" specifically, but it's just not coming together properly and I've already wasted like two days on the fucking thing.