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Offline lemur

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Are Cherry-MX Silent sliders compatible with not-silent housings?
« 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?
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Offline xondat

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Re: Are Cherry-MX Silent sliders compatible with not-silent housings?
« Reply #1 on: Fri, 15 June 2018, 09:58:33 »
Yes.

The silencing is on the stem.
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Re: Are Cherry-MX Silent sliders compatible with not-silent housings?
« Reply #2 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.
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Re: Are Cherry-MX Silent sliders compatible with not-silent housings?
« Reply #3 on: Sun, 17 June 2018, 15:08:15 »
They work with other cherry housing but not all gateron housing just posting it fyi.
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Re: Are Cherry-MX Silent sliders compatible with not-silent housings?
« Reply #4 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!
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