IBM Model M 122 Battleship

So I got a Battleship.

The biggest keyboard in my collection an absolute behemoth that makes a regular Model M look like children toy.

When it got to me, it was dirty. Like really dirty.

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And so many of the plastic rivets were broken that they were just falling off the keyboard.

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So right away i knew that I would need to bolt mod it.
But first taking it a part.
I prepared the table and took all the keys. It was gross AF.

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I even removed the blue stabilizer "rails" with two cotton swabs.

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Then I need to remove the 5.5mm screws and I realized my 5.5 socket was not in my home, so I had to improvise.

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Who knew, a 6mm socket with a piece of TP works like a charm.

And it was fucking disgusting.

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Like i believe this could support a life form for a few months.

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The PCB was protected by a metal sheet working as a Faraday cage

So many rivets were just falling to the table.

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After the barrel plate was detached from the case I started breaking the brittle rivets and cutting the tough ones with a scalpel

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