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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: lemur on Fri, 15 June 2018, 09:55:14

Title: Are Cherry-MX Silent sliders compatible with not-silent housings?
Post by: lemur on Fri, 15 June 2018, 09:55:14

Hello!

I was having difficulty finding anything about this in searches... So I am asking..

Do CherryMX Silent switches retain their 'silence' in the housings of other CherryMX switches?

i.e. I acquire a normal MX black board that allows for switch top removal, I decide I want the alphas to be 'silent' and pop in some silent sliders into it?

Title: Re: Are Cherry-MX Silent sliders compatible with not-silent housings?
Post by: xondat on Fri, 15 June 2018, 09:58:33

Yes.

The silencing is on the stem.

Title: Re: Are Cherry-MX Silent sliders compatible with not-silent housings?
Post by: Riverman on Sun, 17 June 2018, 01:50:41

I went the opposite direction and replaced all of the silent red switches on a Cherry G80-3494 with brown switches by just replacing the tops, sliders, and springs.

Title: Re: Are Cherry-MX Silent sliders compatible with not-silent housings?
Post by: Sup on Sun, 17 June 2018, 15:08:15

They work with other cherry housing but not all gateron housing just posting it fyi.

Title: Re: Are Cherry-MX Silent sliders compatible with not-silent housings?
Post by: lemur on Sun, 17 June 2018, 18:08:13

thanks folks..

i had tried them in some non-cherry housings and while the switches did actuate, they lost the silent part because of protrusions in the bottom housing.

good to know they can be moved around!