Saw the review of these Aristotle switches by Zeal a while back
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=77847.0Peeked my interest so I bought a Chicony 5981 from ebay and harvested the switches. I took out the Aristotle sliders and put into both brown gateron (bought from taobao with chrome translate, can't read chinese, I thought it was green
), it did click but it produce this mushy click, not very good.
I tried it on the blue gateron and wow, what a difference
With blue gateron, there are these little rattle after-shock sound *click erererere*, but with the Aristotle slider, it's clear and crisp, just *Click*. If you look at Zeal's video, it sound almost the same as the ESC key.
Pics...
As clean as it gets
Took a flat screw driver and starts popping the top off, it was easy because the board is old, the top just snapped right off, took about 10 minutes to get all the sliders and springs, didn't realized how important the stabilizers are so i threw them away, regretting it now
Too expensive
a shot for comparision, Zeal has better macro pictures, but here's another one. At first I thought the blue spring is lighter, but after a while pressing both, I can't really tell which is..
Differences between blue and brown - Look at the flap on the metal, the blue is bigger
Cracking the SIP socket
With Socket installed and 78g gold spring, normally the spring would push the slider flying, but due to the slider long curve leg, it somehow hook onto the metal part
Another angle
Finish
I really want to put these in green gateron to compare, but I made the mistake with Taobao, and missed the massdrop drop. Now I need to wait until I sell my CODE keyboard (in classified section, please buy
) before I can buy some greens.
Will be saving these switches for the Ergodox! I would recommend this switch if you are into clicky!