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geekhack Marketplace => Classifieds => Topic started by: N8N on Sat, 20 August 2011, 10:52:09
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if anyone is shooting some Cherry keyboards in the head, I wouldn't mind having a couple grey spacebar stems and springs. I'm modding a few keyboards and think that the grey spacebar with clear key switch combo is a good match. Let me know if you have some that you otherwise wouldn't be using. I'll be using clear springs with the lighter (blue or ergo clear) keyboards. Otherwise I'm going to have to kill a POS board and I otherwise wouldn't have had to do that...
thanks!
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If I'm not completely off the mark, the Gray stems and the White stems are cast in the same mold with different colors of resin. The gray spring looks a LOT like an MX Black spring.
I'm no Ripster, though, so I could be way off the mark.
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I've been told that you're right about the shape of the slider; and it certainly looks to be so to me. however the spring is definitely heavier than either a clear or a black. *to me* at least the ideal weighting of the space bar is a clear or black spring for blues and browns, and a grey spring for clears (or blacks, I suppose, if I wanted same - but I really don't game) I figure if anyone has the springs they likely have the sliders as well, and it's a good way to show you when you have the caps off that you actually used a heavier spring. (of course, if you put a clear spring in a blue switch, say, there's no way to pick up on that - but I would probably use a clear slider with a browns board, although if I had a browns board, I'd likely mod it to ergo clears.)
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I have a bunch of linear gray (http://www2.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Cherry-Electrical/MX1A-21NW/?qs=sGAEpiMZZMtFyPk3yBMYYJKeEEeNbxz2OuGUfu5KmRA%3d) cherries. If I have understood correctly there are grays of different types, the common factor being they are heavier than their colored counterpart. According to the cherry data sheet they are 2.8oz instead of 2.1oz (blacks).
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I have a bunch of linear gray (http://www2.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Cherry-Electrical/MX1A-21NW/?qs=sGAEpiMZZMtFyPk3yBMYYJKeEEeNbxz2OuGUfu5KmRA%3d) cherries. If I have understood correctly there are grays of different types, the common factor being they are heavier than their colored counterpart. According to the cherry data sheet they are 2.8oz instead of 2.1oz (blacks).
Any data on what the Clears run? I know the Blacks are "lighter" than the Clears. I love my Ergo Clears (that IS what we decided to call Clear stems on Blue/Brown/Red springs, right? I know there was some debate a while back). I also modded all the alpha-num keys on my 11900 to be Ghetto Reds (thank you Cherry POS donor board). All my Brown springs for both mods came from the same G80-8200LPBUS... what with all the F keys, modifiers and relegendables, I had plenty of springs.
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There are data on the activation forces in the cherry switch wiki (http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Cherry+switches+and+boards).