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That's how the replacement foam looks with the beamsprings.

Thanks for sharing! Mine was made in Italy and the label looks green-gray; more like the info card you showed.

EPDM Sponge Rubber has a longevity of at least 50 years. It's not the stuff they used in the 70's and 80's.

Don't expect that the foam inlays will get too crazy expensive; while manually it's quite some work, it's not THAT difficult to make it yourself. The seller probably had them factory laser ...

I recently finished my project to fully restore a 6580. The foam helps to stabilize the keys and definitely gives a better typefeeling. I needed to remove a fully rotten/sticky foam (so no choice in my case). Eventually the old foam WILL deteriorate, so when opening and cleaning the keyboard, I ...

Thanks for the confirmation!
It looks like the same colour as the serial number sticker at the bottom.
So perhaps some versions were made in the command-card cardboard style and the muddy green coloured ones in two-colour print.

I'm going to try printing with grey-olive colored paper.

Recently acquired a Displaywriter 6580 "White Whale", unfortunately with no information card. There is another topic for printing the info cards, however not for the 6580: https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=25726

So I decided to re-create as a vector image to ensure a sharper print.

Based ...

The right "target group" uses search words on eBay and this will pop-up. While not intended to use eBay like that (different story), it might work. The seller seems to have a decent review score. If he'd wanted to scam, it's more advisable to enter 280 dollars and a "buy now" button... :lol:

Reacted via the forum there.

If you are considering selling your IBM grey Industrial keyboard with square logo, I am willing to pay a fair price if technical and optical in particularly good condition. No frankenboards and not looking for an SSK.

I'm based in Europe, however seller location not specifically relevant; I'm happy ...