Well, keyboard on it's way!
Everything has been desoldered (switch wise, didn't desolder anything else. It was enough to desolder a whole keyset with 2 points per key)
Just a few switches left that are being not so nice. Soaking in wd-40/have the devils sideways leg that I haven't straightened out yet/need to de-solder them because I somehow forgot 5 of them
The others on the side are about to go into a soak overnight beside the key caps.
Whoever decided to have random switches that decide to have a slant for the leg instead of straight. Not a fan of them.
Seriously? One straight one curved? Can someone give me a reason for this besides just to make someone 42 years down the road mad? lol
I am super glad that the single bit of convincing
@LaPorta gave me to take all the caps off is working well so far.
Moving slowly (still newerish to soldering) but trying to keep work consistent.
The board below is absolutely disgusting, all the caps got stuck coming out, they're covered in grime, dirt, rust everything in between.
I cannot imagine what troubles I'd either run into on initial power up or even serveral years down the road if I don't go ahead and clean it now.
Can't wait to get the top metal off and get the rust off and clean the bottom board/pcb well
Man this project is moving quick!
More updates and photos to come as I work through keyboard/floppies tomorrow!