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Posted: 02 Jun 2016, 17:46
by Nuum
My 5251 beamspring from the lot a few days ago arrived. The key feel is amazing, the rust not so much. I didn't have a deeper look inside, but what I saw was pretty rusty. One switch doesn't click and the 3u back tab key is stuck, but clicks when pulled up and pressed down again, so I guess the stabilizer is wonky.
I can definitely see myself using it as a daily driver, but I need to get rid of this stupid big case.
Posted: 02 Jun 2016, 19:06
by Ratfink
Nuum wrote: One switch doesn't click and the 3u back tab key is stuck, but clicks when pulled up and pressed down again, so I guess the stabilizer is wonky.
The one that doesn't click may well have a broken beam spring or fly spring, which is bad news as spare parts are hard to come by to say the least. The one that sticks though…it's possible that there's something wrong with the return spring (catching or broken). That's the one spring you might be able to find a replacement for, as it's just a normal coil spring.
Posted: 02 Jun 2016, 19:55
by alh84001
Posted: 02 Jun 2016, 21:32
by Halvar
Posted: 02 Jun 2016, 21:35
by seebart
Same seller all the 5251's came from, I believe you know who!
Posted: 02 Jun 2016, 21:44
by Halvar
As I said, now we're talking rust.
Posted: 02 Jun 2016, 21:51
by seebart
Live Rust
, which is also an incredible album, check it out if you care:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Rust
Posted: 02 Jun 2016, 21:59
by Halvar
Still, it's the white whale of IBM keyboards. I wonder...
Posted: 02 Jun 2016, 22:15
by snuci
If it wasn't in Germany and a little too expensive, I'd be all over that!
Posted: 02 Jun 2016, 22:31
by hypkx
Posted: 02 Jun 2016, 22:37
by seebart
Well someone got an insanely low price on that! Hope it's someone who can appreciate it! More and more Beamsprings, 2016 is the year of the Beamspring. Also that one was apparently "new".
Posted: 02 Jun 2016, 22:39
by hypkx
yeah I forgot to bit, I regret it so much
Posted: 02 Jun 2016, 22:41
by seebart
Yeez hypkx, you should feel guilty in this case.
Posted: 02 Jun 2016, 22:56
by tentator
gentlemen... may I? (I mean the ibm white whale..) or are you already all filing your snipers?
mandatory cat:
Re: Great/Interesting Finds
Posted: 02 Jun 2016, 23:03
by Techno Trousers
Why are there so many Beamsprings coming out of eBay in Germany and so few in the U.S.?
Posted: 02 Jun 2016, 23:05
by hypkx
seebart wrote: Yeez hypkx, you should feel guilty in this case.
I thought it will end up with a much higher price and also something unexpected happened that day so at the ending time I was not at home and I also crashed my smartphone some weeks ago, so I was not even able to bit from it.
Posted: 02 Jun 2016, 23:06
by hypkx
tentator wrote: gentlemen... may I? (I mean the ibm white whale..) or are you already all filing your snipers?
mandatory cat:
Sorry
, but not this time
Posted: 02 Jun 2016, 23:30
by seebart
Techno Trousers wrote: Why are there so many Beamsprings coming out of eBay in Germany and so few in the U.S.?
Conceivably coincidence, or not. No one knows is more like it.
hypkx wrote: Sorry
, but not this time
That's right hypkx!
Posted: 02 Jun 2016, 23:43
by Abstractions
Posted: 02 Jun 2016, 23:44
by hypkx
A bit pricy, but nice 60% Beamspring.
Posted: 02 Jun 2016, 23:45
by Muirium
I have (most of) the caps for one of those:
The integrated numpad ones are tripleshots.
Posted: 02 Jun 2016, 23:57
by Halvar
That's not a beamspring board though. In fact, it doesn't have switches at all. It's more similar to a mechanical typewriter.
Posted: 02 Jun 2016, 23:58
by Muirium
Yeah, I'm told my caps are from a punchcard puncher. They are beamspring mount though.
Posted: 03 Jun 2016, 00:17
by hypkx
I think older IBM typewriters (spherical head) have also beamspring mount keycaps.
Posted: 03 Jun 2016, 01:15
by tentator
I confirm.. have ones of first selectric I
really nice olive color white legend.. and font (matt3o would like it
) i can take pictures in case..
Posted: 03 Jun 2016, 02:55
by warty
Wait... is that true? I could take some keys off of one of my selectrics, and put them on my displaywriter keyboard? wow. That is GREAT. and not just because one of my keys arrived crushed. This would let us do some cool color things. displaywriter keys are white, my selectrics are a kind of off-black, and gray. must play....
Posted: 03 Jun 2016, 02:58
by Ratfink
warty wrote: Wait... is that true? I could take some keys off of one of my selectrics, and put them on my displaywriter keyboard? wow. That is GREAT. and not just because one of my keys arrived crushed. This would let us do some cool color things. displaywriter keys are white, my selectrics are a kind of off-black, and gray. must play....
A warning though: if you thought pulling keycaps from a beamspring board the first time was hard, pulling them from a Selectric is
much harder.
Posted: 03 Jun 2016, 09:51
by seebart
Halvar wrote: That's not a beamspring board though. In fact, it doesn't have switches at all. It's more similar to a mechanical typewriter.
Exactly. Not a mechanical keybboard as we know it. Very pretty though.
Posted: 03 Jun 2016, 10:54
by jou
seebart wrote:
Well someone got an insanely low price on that! Hope it's someone who can appreciate it! More and more Beamsprings, 2016 is the year of the Beamspring. Also that one was apparently "new".
I got it and I'm surprised at the price I got myself (my max bid was 80€). It does seem to be in pretty good nick: no shine on the keycaps, from what I saw with the few caps I pulled, the contamination shield seems to be still intact.
Now I'll have to get my hands on a xwhatsit Beamspring controller…
Posted: 03 Jun 2016, 11:01
by seebart
Congrats jou !! Very happy to hear it went to you. I know you can appreciate it! Pictures please when you have time thanks.