FW3A, a TLF/BLF EDC flashlight - SST-20 available, coupon codes public

I do that sometimes. Sometimes I even take a screenshot before cancelling the post. Itā€™s a good way to let off steam without making messes.

The letters on my keyboard are no longer visible :laughing:

This thing finally got so old that I replaced it. It lasted for an estimated 200 million keystrokes, without ever giving me any problems, but I was wearing through the keycaps and wanted to try something new.

So now Iā€™m using one of these:

Very nice :+1:

It sure looks nice, but you only know for sure after a million keystrokes :wink: give or take.
As for myself, I always was very fond of the classic IBM keyboards. It had a typical mechanical click, almost like pushing in the shutter of an analog foto camera (dare I say gun trigger?)

I still do have one mechanical keyboard from 1998.

Got passed down from my father to me.

Multigenerational keyboard still working :smiley:

On a more positive note, It took Newport News Shipbuilding less time to build (and commission) the first ship in a class of entirely new aircraft carriers (Essex) than it has taken to put together this flashlight. Way to go Newport News Shipbuilding! :wink:

@JasonWW
:+1: :beer: :+1:

Good thing the FW3A is just a flashlight. Right?

Flashlight are way more complicated than Ships. But good job anyway.

I still have a couple old buckling-spring keyboards, but theyā€™re pretty much never found in the 65% form factor I like. So I have newer keyboards with MX-style switches.

According to my logs, this new one already has about 5 million keypresses on it.

Iā€™m tempted to look for one with Kaihua Copper switches though, instead of the Hako True switches Iā€™m using now. Itā€™s a lighter touch, more tactile, and less spongey toward the bottom. Or maybe Iā€™ll just finally get a key switch tester board to try a wider range, and find a keyboard with hot-swappable switches. I happen to know a guy who is making one, and it runs open-source firmware, and Iā€™ve already added stuff to that firmwareā€¦

Thereā€™s more than one rabbit hole to fall into. :slight_smile:

One for me. Thank you

Hey! Leave my rabbit hole alone! Barely room for me in there and I NEED my rabbit hole! :wink:

(Thelonious Monk makes it habitable.)

Lance_Hardrod would like 2 of these lights.

Great stage name.

Please drop me from the list #963 Thank you! Good luck to all!

In 1941.

The current construction schedule isnā€™t quite as tight.

Thatā€™s a nice mecha.
What brand & model is that?

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