Dell AT101 (salmon alps) & SGI Granite

AKIMbO · 21 Oct 2012, 04:13

Picked up a second SGI granite board (dampened white alps) and a rare-ish old logo Dell AT101 (salmon alps). Rip-o-metered the salmon alps board and I'm getting 65-70g on the board, the exception being the arrow key cluster (which registers uniformly at 75g).

The SGI Granite after a 4 hour retrobrite treatment in the South Florida sun. The difference...OMG

All those fancy retrobrite recipes are bs. The only 2 things I used were sunshine and 40 vol creme developer from Sally's Beauty Supply. There's no need for glycerin or xanthan gum.

forcefollow · 22 Oct 2012, 03:04

nice results
AKIMbO, have you ever have mottled result from retrobrite? I gather that you completlely submerged the whole caps and casing as opposed to reapply the peroxide every ten minutes...?

I got mottled plastics from 40% peroxide after only a day recently (granted, it's tropical sunshine and the ambient temperature is like 35 C on average

AKIMbO · 22 Oct 2012, 04:00

forcefollow wrote:nice results
AKIMbO, have you ever have mottled result from retrobrite? I gather that you completlely submerged the whole caps and casing as opposed to reapply the peroxide every ten minutes...?

I got mottled plastics from 40% peroxide after only a day recently (granted, it's tropical sunshine and the ambient temperature is like 35 C on average

Yes, the space bar on the SGI has a tiny bit of blooming. The case however is perfect. When I do caps I usually use 30 vol hydrogen peroxide...this was my first time with 40 vol creme. I have to say, the creme works a ton faster than the liquid.

Findecanor · 22 Oct 2012, 09:25

BTW, the Wiki page for the Dell AT101 is missing a picture of the Old Logo Dell AT101. *hint* *hint* *nudge* *nudge*

t!ng · 22 Oct 2012, 12:26

You used hair bleacher for the SGI ?

AKIMbO · 22 Oct 2012, 14:34

Findecanor wrote:BTW, the Wiki page for the Dell AT101 is missing a picture of the Old Logo Dell AT101. *hint* *hint* *nudge* *nudge*

Noted...I just added two pictures of the Dell.

t!ng wrote:You used hair bleacher for the SGI ?

Yup. Turned out great right. $12 got me enough to do several keyboards.

forcefollow · 22 Oct 2012, 14:55

um, can you please post the pics of the peroxide 'creme' you used? I gather it'd be more practical than submerging the whole case as I did, so if possible, I'd like to duplicate the procedure.

pasph · 22 Oct 2012, 17:38

You have used the cream also for keycaps?
You have painted them one by one?

AKIMbO · 22 Oct 2012, 19:34

forcefollow wrote:um, can you please post the pics of the peroxide 'creme' you used? I gather it'd be more practical than submerging the whole case as I did, so if possible, I'd like to duplicate the procedure.

Sure, here's a link to the creme I used.

pasph wrote:You have used the cream also for keycaps?
You have painted them one by one?

I used creme for the spacebar. I have used liquid for keycaps in the past. The creme works quicker.