Filco Minila Replacement Keycaps

[tbc]

anyone know of a pbt keycap for the minila spacebar?

 

[t0wer]

none that I know of, a geekhack group buy would probably be your best bet.

[dhcabinian]

Due to the non-standard sizes of the Filco Manila spacebar, no one will have a PBT Spacebar for you :(. Though a geekhack group buy could be a possible solution to your delimma, I think that the popularity of that keyboard amongst GeekHack is quite a bit smaller compared to other 60% like the poker, pure, and HHKB Pro 2. I therefore think that a group buy will be highly unlikely. Sorry :/

[brianvoo]

Due to the non-standard sizes of the Filco Manila spacebar, no one will have a PBT Spacebar for you :(. Though a geekhack group buy could be a possible solution to your delimma, I think that the popularity of that keyboard amongst GeekHack is quite a bit smaller compared to other 60% like the poker, pure, and HHKB Pro 2. I therefore think that a group buy will be highly unlikely. Sorry :/

Agreed. The overall layout of Manila makes getting custom/replacement keycaps a pain IMO.

[carlsmith]

I bought my key set here (I went for the grey & blue set), and you can get modifier sets here. There are a few other places you can buy complete kits and modifier sets for the ANSI MINILA. I've not seen any for the other versions (with the ISO Enter key and 1u LeftShift), only the US version.

 

I wrote to Filco, well Diatek or whatever they're called, and asked if they will do a spherical set for the MINILA, like they do for their larger keyboards. They said they plan to release a set for the MINILA, but that they had no timeline. That was over a year ago.

 

They obviously want to sell a load before they invest in custom keycaps, so we all have to shell out loads of money in the hope that they will eventually find it profitable enough to support their own high-end product. All they've actually done is give their product a bad name in every keyboard forum on the Web, due to their unwillingness to supply parts. When you consider how cheap the keycaps are that they bundle with the keyboard, and the fact that they already make and sell most of the keys they need for a MINILA, they kind of deserve the bad reputation they're building.

 

I really love my MINILA, but wouldn't buy anything from Filco again. They make nice keyboards, but so do a lot of people, and other companies support their products. Look up KBDFans. They're a couple of lads from China that have a little keyboard business. I really like a couple of their products, and they'll customise some stuff for you. It just depends what they can realistically do.