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Image 1: Packaging

Image 2: More Packaging

Image 3: Before Front

Most visible damage in this picture is above the F7 and Druck, Rollen, Pause keys. Druck, Rollen, Pause keys themselves are damaged. Previous owner probably cleaned this IBM Model M from the outside before they sent it to me. You’ll see the horrors soon enough.

Image 4: Before Label

Image 5: After Back (similar to missing Before Back)

I removed the label from the back.

Image 6: Before Assembly Front

Note the ash :(

Image 7: Before Assembly Back

Image 8: Before Internals

How this melted is beyond me. Maybe due to repeated exposure to hot ash?

Image 9: After Cinematic Shot

Image 10: After Druck, Rollen, Pause Keys

Destructive cleaning on the side of the keys, though I could also look for replacement keycaps.

Image 11: After Yellow Spot

More destructive cleaning.

I didn’t make any after pictures of the assembly and internals, but I gave everything a deep clean and bolt modded my IBM Model M.

IBM Model M’s melting point is too low to protect against people that abuse the pen holder as an ashtray tho, and mine got shipped to me without protective packaging lol. It works, but a bolt mod and a destructive deep clean was necessary. Yes, Model M’s can get permanent dents and turn yellow if you put enough lit cigarettes on it. Restoration videos don’t show Model M’s as abused as this one.

Yeah, I also love the pen holder of my IBM Model M. I don’t know about others, but I always keep a pen at my desk. So I may as well use the pen holder built into my keyboard.

Love to see the pen holder in use :P

It’s the ISO enter key with stabilizer judging by that image.

But I found an interesting reference that suggests that everything here works as intended.

Image 1: 122-key IBM Model M

This layout matches mine with the following exceptions:

• Additional keys from the 122-key variant.
• I’ve got a two unit high numpad plus key instead of two distinct keys.
• My layout is German QWERTZ.

Image 2: 122-key IBM Model M internal assembly

If you look at the placement of stabilizer inserts, then this matches my IBM Model M. Same exceptions apply. I couldn’t determine whether the 122-key IBM Model M enter key also uses a stabilizer metal bar, but it’s suspiciously similar to my layout nonetheless.

Still costs $2.00 + $35.20 shipping + $7.44 import sales tax = $44.64, though. I was too impatient when I bought my IBM Model M. I even saw one get sold for $35.

Good to know! What I also didn’t know is that the spring and stabilizer placement depends on the keyboard layout. My enter, numpad plus, and numpad enter key have what I now assume are metal stabilizer bars. So I guess everything was alright after all, or do these still need stabilizer inserts? I think it’s weird that I can’t press the upper half of the enter key, though.

I found a Model M for 105€ on a local auction website. I’ll go check it out.