Spot That Cherry! (Gold Plated PCB Mount Stabs Giveaway) [WINNER ANNOUNCED]

[Zeal]

As some GHers may know, I've recently gotten some Gateron switches to play with... Upon first impression, they looked awfully like MX Clear stems. That's when I decided to start a game...

Reward: One set of Gold Plated PCB Mount Stabs + 1x 7u Gold Plated PCB Mount Stab as seen in the following picture. I will cover shipping worldwide.


Rules:

• Only 1 guess a day per user. Your entries reset at 00:00 midnight PST. This means you can enter everyday to increase your odds of winning!
• No editing your post. If you edit your post, you'll be disqualified for that day.
• You must circle the "fake" MX Clear switch(es) in your entry. I have swapped one or more Gateron clear stem(s) into one or more Cherry housing(s). Your mission is to identify which one(s) is/are the fake(s).
• Entries end on Jan 31, 2015 at 23:59:59 PST. If the correct answer has not been found, I will randomly select a number from all the entries and pick a winner. The winner must be an entry. If it isn't, I will redraw a number until it lands on an entry.

Here is the high res picture: Please shrink your pictures when you submit your entry!


Best of luck and shall your jimmies be rustled! )

-Zeal

[byker]

I do not see anything different! 

[MGH]

This is going to be fun 

[Karura]

Ain't nobody's got time for this lol, you sick, sick man

[sidel]

      <- How many of you look like this right now?

[Evo_Spec]

So cool and seems so fun! thanks for the opportunity!!

[CommonCurt]

All Gaterons ?   

[Tym]

 Top right? I've circled it badly   )

Interesting competition Zeal, good luck all!

[MAR82]

Let's try this one. 
Btw I love this idea of a contest

[Evo_Spec]

I'm convinced that it's all of them.....or none of them.....i'ma go with.....

ALL GATERON!!!


Good luck everyone.

[hwood34]

[billnye]

Zeal best troll NA

[SpAmRaY]

[Zeal]

And you guys thought you knew your Cherries. 

[SpAmRaY]

And you guys thought you knew your Cherries. 

Need a better quality photo

[DrHubblePhD]

And you guys thought you knew your Cherries. 

Can you tell the difference in this photo or are we just randomly guessing?

[Zeal]

And you guys thought you knew your Cherries. 

Can you tell the difference in this photo or are we just randomly guessing?

There are visual differences on a stem, but you'd need to capture a macro shot of them side by side.
Can't say what they are though, so it's pretty much blind guessing if you don't spot it.

Hard to say if I can "spot it" if I already know the answer.

[DrHubblePhD]

And you guys thought you knew your Cherries. 

Can you tell the difference in this photo or are we just randomly guessing?

There are visual differences on a stem, but you'd need to capture a macro shot of them side by side.
Can't say what they are though, so it's pretty much blind guessing if you don't spot it.

Hard to say if I can "spot it" if I already know the answer.

challenge accepted 

[Bromono]

The switch to the right of the spacebar

[DrHubblePhD]

[DrHubblePhD]

This is virtually impossible  )

[Zeal]

This is virtually impossible  )

Less entries=more chances of someone winning with an incorrect entry at the end of the month. )

[SpAmRaY]

This is virtually impossible  )

Less entries=more chances of someone winning with an incorrect entry at the end of the month. )

That's my goal.

[Badwrench]

Space saver for when i get to my pc.

[Joey Quinn]

I think I have an idea what it may be but it'll take me a while to really look at each switch.

[C5Allroad]

Is it this one??? Has a weird thingy on it.

[blazarcher]

All look the same to me... *shrug*

[nubbinator]

So here's my guesses




It looks like the Gateron switches have two difference I've seen, both very difficult to see in this picture.  First, it looks like they have the same stem width for the x and y axis.  The x axis is a little thicker on Clears.  It also looks like the Gaterons have a chamfer on on the lip that goes straight the the edge while the MX Clears have the tiniest of gaps and a slightly more rounded top edge of the chamfer. Clears also look like they may have a more clear center line from the mold.

[Joey Quinn]

So here's my guesses

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It looks like the Gateron switches have two difference I've seen, both very difficult to see in this picture.  First, it looks like they have the same stem width for the x and y axis.  The x axis is a little thicker on Clears.  It also looks like the Gaterons have a chamfer on on the lip that goes straight the the edge while the MX Clears have the tiniest of gaps and a slightly more rounded top edge of the chamfer. Clears also look like they may have a more clear center line from the mold.

The chamfer is what I was thinking but I don't see the x axis thing.

[nubbinator]

Look at the stems top down.  It doesn't show well in pictures, but you can kind of see it here:






The Cherry switch is slightly thinner on the y-axis.  It's most noticeable on the top (rearmost) half of the cross.  In person, you can eyeball them and see that they're not perfectly the same size.  The Gateron looks symmetrical.

[n0rvig]

Wow tricky. Good hunting Nubbs

[FluffynFuzzy]

They are all Cherry Mx Switches I believe, so that's my submission. None of them are Gaterons.

[demik]

all cherry switches are fake

give me board so i can burn cherry switches

[HoffmanMyster]

You have my address already.

Thank you for the gift.

[FrostyToast]

Go home boys, I got this in the bag.

Send the stabs with my green tea Kit Kats 

[DrHubblePhD]

Go home boys, I got this in the bag.

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Send the stabs with my green tea Kit Kats  :-*

ok fine....

[DrHubblePhD]

[Moralless]

After spending hours analyzing all the images you've provided here's my guess:


The giveaway was that gateron had clear switch houses 

[tp4tissue]

You've made all our lives more stressful..

DAMN YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!


WHICH ONE IS IT !!!!!!!!!

[bowji]

It has to be...

[nubbinator]

In accordance with the theme, I used Clear circles.  I hope that's okay.

[Badwrench]

Todays try: 

[nubbinator]

Todays try: 

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[Badwrench]

Todays try: 

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That one was actually for you  :thumb:

[HoffmanMyster]

I give up.

[nubbinator]

Not for TS?  He's our local I tend to be a bit more :square:

[Zeal]

Todays try: 

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o****. He just 'd me.

I give up.

[HoffmanMyster]

I give up.

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Thanks for posting the flag.  I couldn't be arsed.  Go figure; I quit a contest where all we do is circle things in an image.

[Zeal]

I give up.

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Thanks for posting the flag.  I couldn't be arsed.  Go figure; I quit a contest where all we do is circle things in an image.

What happened?

>You have a better chance of going out and winning the lottery
>Hoff: No I am going to get it!

[bowji]

"Wheres Waldo?"

This is pretty fun lol