Man, I sweat bullets in the dead of Winter without a jacket. Wake up - Immediately begin sweating profusely. Get to work dripping. Middle of the day - nothing. End of the night - here comes the sweat again. So I mostly sweat during periods of inactivity, regardless of temperature.

Any other hyperhidrosis brothers or sisters out there? Summer sucks though, I may as well have just jumped into a pool at any given moment. I miss AC office jobs where you sit all day for that reason.

This is probably the strangest switch I have. It's a mx clone called dai ichi yellow, it's this very strange mx clone made by this random manufacturer that there is like no info on at all or I just missed it for some reason.

The weird thing about it is that it has a click leaf, unlike other mx clones, which confuses me a lot. I don't think I've seen a switch do this apart from those zeal clickiez which apparently have a click jacket. It actually feels alright, like if you gave me this I would probably type on and be fine and like it. It's a lot more tactile when not in a keyboard though. I looked around and someone said that there was binding with the switches, I only have one cause it was sent alongside another switch that will be in a small build.


the top is the dai ichi yellow, bottom a cherry clicky switch (sorry for poor image quality but I just got this today and I am very confused about it)

It's loud af and like rattles if you shake like there is something lose in it, but it's just the click leaf moving around hitting the switch housing making that metallic sound.

Just a very strange switch in general, but honestly more mx switches should do click leafs like this, could actually be pretty nice. (that aren't a dollar a switch please)

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Hi! This is ArpYorashol, from Singapore!

This started off with me realising my Razer keyboard was getting grossly disgusting. So sometime in March, I came across a stall selling Keebs and I decided to head in to press a few keys and thought to myself "hmmm...that feels good and sounds great? Price tag not so good" (it was a $184 for a fully built GMK87). Went home that evening and chanced upon a budget KB video and decided to order it on a whim (really needed to change that razer out...).

The journey has been great and I have 3 KBs now (I ordered one of it by mistake because I thought I was only ordering keycaps. It was Taobao.). Might get one more Alu case 60/65 in the near future. I have so much more to learn about this dynamic hobby so if you have any recommended readings to reply to this thread!

In the meantime, have a great one!
#TeamThock

I have been harvesting Alps switches

I am much more concerned with having something on my desk that works exactly the way that I want it to work than forcing myself to adapt myself to a piece of gear.

That said, future collectors of vintage gear (if there really are that many of them) will object to our pillaging of parts.

But, Alps are unique (proprietary?) enough that I have mostly just shuffled them around. So, aside from my Model Fs, my preferred keyboard is a Northgate Omnikey 101 with orange Alps transplanted into it.