Epbt Grayscale Base & International kits
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Upgraded from my 980ti to a 1080ti since Iām planning on getting a high refresh rate 1440p monitor soon & got my first Orochi! Although the Orochi was kinda a bust as the stem on it is so tight it will not fit on to any switches.
Is this normal with Keyforge caps? I got it second hand so Iām kinda stuck with it anyways. I canāt really get mad at the seller since there is technically nothing wrong with the cap. Kinda crappy if they knew about it & didnāt tell me, but it is what it is at this pointā¦
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I have this same cap and mine was also very difficult to get onto a switch at first. Too tight in my opinion. Once I put it on and off a few times it wasnāt so bad. Iād recommend a switch or board thatās not so important to you first.
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Yeah, I had the same experience. Then I had issues with it sliding off of the yok pandas that I had. (they were the stock stem).
Ended up being the switch itself that was loose, somehow. Iāve got it on some vintage blacks right now, and it is 
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Cool, at least knowing this common with these caps makes me feel a bit better. Although I donāt know if Iāll ever get any use out of this one. I canāt get it started even on switches with smaller stems like TTC or Greetech. Iām 99% sure the stem will shatter if I force it, LOL. 
Kinda a shame as I got it to go with GMK Jamon & I think itāll match that set nicely. I guess I could always shave the cruciform mount down on a switch to get it to fit if I really want to use it.
What a lovely board! I feel kinda bad that my case is just sitting on the side now since I only got that board to harvest those absolutely wonderful keycaps. Are you planning on doing a full rebuild of the board? Or just cleaning it and rolling with the dampened alps? Orā¦ will you harvest those A+ keycaps? 
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Thanks! They are beautiful boards, but I grabbed it mostly for the keycaps. I want to do that WKL layout with a split backspace for my ADK64 build. Although I will be cleaning it up, keeping the damped whites in it, & tossing the keycaps from my Dell AT101W on it for now so it is still usable. Then hopefully I can find another SGI AT101 later down the line cause I would like to have one in itās stock form just for my collection. This one though I canāt pass up putting these awesome caps on a custom ALPS build, LOL!
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You could try heating it upā¦ not sure what kind of plastic it is, but a heat gun or just placing the switch stem-down on a 3D printer heating bed set to, I dunno, 60C-70C? You want to get it hot enough that itās malleable, but not so hot that it starts melting.
Maybe not a great idea depending on how much the switch costā¦
Those keycaps are straight up 
, arenāt they? I was amazed at the condition they were ināthat board felt like itād never been used.
I almost forgot I even owned that board until I saw @Rob27shredās thread about his Alps dilemma. I realized a while ago that I just donāt like any of the Alps switches Iāve tried, at least not enough to deal with them; Iāve had horrible luck desoldering and re-soldering those little jerks. Since he loves Alps so much, I figured Iād ask if he wanted to take the SGI board off my hands, and now itās his 
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My Keyforge blind bag and tokkipee pastel blue blank came in the mail today. I also got tokkipeeās pins as an add-on and have included one on my meetup bag 
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200x 78g Catweewee springs, and the gentleman even included some spare switch films! Really excited to put these in as Iāve heard a lot of good things about them.
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MicroMesh cushioned abrasive pads:
Theyāll be used to even out wear on ABS sets like the Nautilus keyset in the picture.
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Does this bring back the āgritā texture on keys with shine?
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