At this point, everything got a thorough scrubbing off camera. The plastic case halves when the in the dishwasher, the keycaps got a cleaning with denture tabs, and the circuit board was hand scrubbed with isopropyl alcohol. I made some purchases online and waited for my parts.

I had originally wanted to use the newer Matias switches, reasoning that this would be a "modernization" of the old board. This plan turned out badly, though, as the Focus's original keycaps wouldn't work with the new switches. Instead, I snagged some genuine Alps SKCM Whites that someone had salvaged from some other board. These are ostensibly the switches that the originals were clones of, so it seemed right.

As I reassembled, I took the opportunity to make a few more improvements and updates.