The best anyone can tell you is maybe or maybe they'll just be old mx blacks.awww too bad I want some vintafe blacks!
There have been people who bought dozens of those wyse boards to desolder and they had a mix of vintage and old switches.
Vintage Black = placebo
Just buy normal blacks, lube, and be done with it. The vintage black premium a ton of people pay is not worth it. A **** ton of placebo effect and confirmation bias goes on with stuff like that.
Vintage Black = placebo
Just buy normal blacks, lube, and be done with it. The vintage black premium a ton of people pay is not worth it. A **** ton of placebo effect and confirmation bias goes on with stuff like that.
Never tried Nixdork, but I can't imagine it being that much different. If it is, I have some snake oil to sell you.I'd prefer that you send me homeopathic water that cures asthma instead. I also have a high allergic reaction to many things.
Nope. Gateron legit placebo. Tried side by side blind, Gateron straight placebo, just lighter spring.
#placebocirclejerk
#placebocirclejerk
I've been saying this FOREVER.
Here’s about the earliest MX board anyone is likely to find:Now thats a really old one! I'm gonna snatch that one
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=79173.0
$36 isn’t an amazing price for just switches, and this thing might be more interesting to keep as a relic than strip for parts, but I’m not at all motivated to scour ebay for cheaper old MX keyboards.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/331767923245Show Image(http://i.imgur.com/AatXeKT.jpg)
Nope. Gateron legit placebo. Tried side by side blind, Gateron straight placebo, just lighter spring.
http://m.ebay.com/itm/Wyse-Terminal-ANSI-Mechanical-Keyboard-WY85-Gate-Array-840366-01-/171759048792?nav=SEARCH
Been trying to find vintage mx black does this board uses vintage black?
You have to purchase multiple wyse boards to make sure that you can get enough vintage large logo black MX. I know a person who used a total of 10 donor boards just to get a full tkl of large logo vintages.
Vintage Black = placebo
Just buy normal blacks, lube, and be done with it. The vintage black premium a ton of people pay is not worth it. A **** ton of placebo effect and confirmation bias goes on with stuff like that.
btw how much did you pay for your NIB vintage blacks?Vintage Black = placebo
Just buy normal blacks, lube, and be done with it. The vintage black premium a ton of people pay is not worth it. A **** ton of placebo effect and confirmation bias goes on with stuff like that.
I have to disagree. I have NiB 1988 Vintage Black, Gateron Black, and new Black all to test with. There is even a significant difference in the sound of scratchiness. Obviously "vintage" is a rather vague term. The switch feel can very board to board and even on the same board it can very switch to switch depending on how much use each switch had. Luckily for me the board I got my blacks from was a NiB so they all feel the same.
With the Vintage blacks that I have then I would personally rate it by Vintage > Gateron > New. All are unlubed. I do have nixdorfs coming in the mail as well to try and see if they are any better.
Obviously the difference is not drastic, it may be minimal enough that most people would be just fine settling with new blacks but if you want to get that extra 10-15% smoothness then finding the right vintage ones are the way to go in my personal opinion.