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Title: Why do sellers call them "sliders?"
Post by: aegrotatio on Wed, 18 August 2010, 23:23:48

I have a very simple question.  Why do sellers call them "sliders?"  What type of switches are they referring to when they say this?  ALPS?

Title: Why do sellers call them "sliders?"
Post by: aegrotatio on Wed, 18 August 2010, 23:32:21

Yeah, goes down the same way they come out.
I miss the frozen box of square cheeseburgers.
But that was the 1970s.
Sigh.

Title: Why do sellers call them "sliders?"
Post by: ManjyomeThunder on Thu, 19 August 2010, 02:02:02

Quote from: aegrotatio;214258

Yeah, goes down the same way they come out.
I miss the frozen box of square cheeseburgers.
But that was the 1970s.
Sigh.

Local grocery store still has boxes of White Castle hamburgers and cheeseburgers.

*insert something relevant to OP's question here*

Title: Why do sellers call them "sliders?"
Post by: Oqsy on Thu, 19 August 2010, 02:43:07

Plastic sliding against plastic...  I get it.

Title: Why do sellers call them "sliders?"
Post by: itlnstln on Thu, 19 August 2010, 08:12:32

I always considered the slider as part of the switch, but yeah, I have seen that term used on eBay regarding the entire switch.

Title: Why do sellers call them "sliders?"
Post by: ch_123 on Thu, 19 August 2010, 08:19:14

Some sellers (eg. ncbound10) will say things like "Blue sliders" or "White sliders", which is accurate, although without mentioning the switch type, it gets a bit confusing.

Title: Why do sellers call them "sliders?"
Post by: itlnstln on Thu, 19 August 2010, 10:06:53

You forgot "clicky."

Title: Why do sellers call them "sliders?"
Post by: RoboKrikit on Thu, 19 August 2010, 20:05:48

"Minty"

Title: Why do sellers call them "sliders?"
Post by: itlnstln on Fri, 20 August 2010, 07:03:38

Oooh, I hate that one.  Every time I buy something that's "minty," it never smells like that when I get it.

Title: Why do sellers call them "sliders?"
Post by: washuai on Fri, 20 August 2010, 09:32:38

I hate minty for the opposite reason.  Things end up being minty, but the minty is just to cover up inferior ingrediants, because it is such a dominating scent/taste.

That said, I have some love of wintergreen and have to use peppermint medicinally.  The point there in those cases is it is all about the mint by itself, rather than blatantly masking badness with mint.

OT - I saw a compaq mx 11800 advertised as burgandy sliders.  I don't know how you look at brown (picture posted) and interpret that as burgandy.  It is weirder than calling the switch a slider.