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Just recieved my UK layout F77 today and have assembled the keys.

It truly is remarkable! Ellipse - you have created an incredible product against all odds.

Thankfully the extra mileage to the UK didn't affect the keyboard at all and it all worked with no tweaks. The £80 ($97) customs charge was a ...

Glad I found this post - I too was worried about too much force. Pushed a bit harder and the black stabilizer seated correctly. Thanks guys!

On my Model F XT I had to use G-clamps, a block of wood and a mallet to slide the two plates together.

I've used less force splitting the cylinder head off an engine block!

Apologies for the late reply - I've not had chance to look at this until a week ago.

It appears that my PCB was actually faulty. I managed to source another PCB on eBay and replaced the board and it now works. I have done away with my shoddy wiring and as you suggested, wired directly to the Teensy ...

Great restoration. I'm currently coming to the end of my F XT 83 restoration, and I'm glad it's not just me who has gone through the sticky rotten foam, ridiculous amount of clamps, newly scratched paint and the scattering of flippers over a wide area when the plates slip.

In fact I seperated mine ...

Cheers for the replies guys - it's much appreciated.

I'll take it apart (again) this weekend and take a couple more photos. Great idea about the internal USB conversion. I'd not thought about doing it that way.

Agreed that my soldering isn't the best which doesn't help matters!

Here are a couple more photos. The white stuff on the pcb was some remnants of the old foam which I have now removed.

The other photo is of the Teensy running Soarer's converter and connected to the original cable using a 5-pin din socket.

Correction - soldered to the Teensy is a 5-pin socket! The original 5-pin din plug is then plugged into the socket.

Thanks for the reply guys!

I have the original cable with the 5-pin din. Soldered to the Teensy is a 5-pin din plug, and I have simply plugged them together. I was a bit precious about cutting the cable to solder the wires from the block connector to the Teensy!

I will take some closer photos this ...

Hello,

I hope someone may be able to point me in the right direction with a strange issue I'm experiencing while refurbishing my IBM Model F.

I have stripped it down completely, cleaned everything, fitted new foam and re-assembled. I am using a Teensy board running Soarer's Converter and it all ...