Edit on 6/1/14: This thread has been locked due to the lack of interest in a future tour.
UPDATE: YES THE ORIGINAL TOUR IS MISSING BUT I HAVE A NEW SOLUTION. PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK OF MY SOLUTIONS BY REPLYING TO THIS POST. THANKS!It's time! I'm done teasing this. No more
Interest Checks and talking about it. It's happening, I'm making moves finally.
This is my Keycap and Switch test tour. You can try a variety of keycaps AND
switches.
Ever wanted to try Alps, Topre, Buckling Spring, and MX switches all in one shot? You can do that. Scroll down for more info!Tired of hearing the debate between PBT and ABS caps? Want to know for yourself what the difference between thick and thin caps are? Here's your chance to find out. I've managed to accumulate the following caps which will be put onto a
Tipro 4x8 Matrix board. It has plate-mounted MX Blacks:
- Thin ABS: Number row profile, stock Poker caps (Thanks for the donation from Lastpilot!)
- Thick ABS: asdf row, Cherry Doubleshot caps (Thanks for the donation Mashby!)
- Thin PBT: qwer row, stock Vortex caps (Thanks for the donation Mashby!)
- Thick PBT: Escape/Function row, imsto caps (Thanks for the donation from Lastpilot!)
- 2 Tipro relegendables (Thanks for the donation The_Beast!)
- Zinc Cap (Thanks unnamed friend!)
- Wario PBT Doubleshot
- Thin ABS in DSA profile (Thanks for the donation ray4jc!)
- 4 POM Caps (Thanks for the donation Dorkvader!)
- BunnyCap (Thanks for the donation ray4jc!)
- SP Gamer Set (Thanks for the donation ray4jc!)
- SA Profile Caps (Thanks for the donation ray4jc!)
I also have a
Mr. Interface Switch Try Bag. This bag has loose Cherry MX switches (Blue, Brown, Black, White, Clear), Alps (Click and Tactile White, Black, Salmon, etc), a Topre keychain, a Buckling Spring keychain, and some other rare switches (Acer, Futaba, Cherry ML). It's got most of the switches available....except I didn't get a Green or Ghetto Green. Sorry to anyone who was looking forward to trying these.
If you ever wanted to try a whole bunch of switches, this is how to do it. Yes they are loose single switches but unless you go to a meet, it'll be hard to get this variety anywhere else.
TheFlyingRaccoon has graciously added a Hall Effect Switch to the "Other" bag. You'll know what I mean when you get the stuff.
ray4jc has added an MX Linear Grey, Matias Quiet, and Matias Clicky switch.
Rules (These are borrowed from
AKIMbO's AT F tour)
Only members who have 100+ posts
and I deem trustworthy are allowed to participate.
- You get one week with the Tipro and switches...then you must mail it (with tracking) to the next individual on the list.
Everything will fit into a USPS small flat-rate box (Cost = $5.85). Apparently there is a new box with the shipping cost around $8. Please try and package it exactly like I did so the next person on the list will have the same chance you do to play with everything. - You must post your thoughts on the switches and caps. Even if its your top three favorite and least three favorite switches.
- Tour is CONUS only
- Please PM me and the person you're sending the package a tracking number. If you could post a picture in this thread of the stuff, that'd be amazing as well
Post your interest here. I'll add you to the list if you meet my requirements. The trust thing is there because most of the stuff on this tour is borrowed and I need to return everything eventually. I haven't decided on whether or not I'm going to keep this tour running or if I'm going to do rounds. Let me know what you guys think.
I forgot to say this before but Mashby has also suggested that we send out 37/Alpha sets for people to test out. I'd have to ask him and he'd be handling the sets. if there is interest in this, please let me know as well.
Participants- TheFlyingRaccoon
- ray4jc
- dubsgalore <-- Tour is here
- melvang
- CommunistWitchDr
- tricheboars
- goodfella
- Input Nirvana