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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Vocroth on Sun, 28 August 2011, 04:58:07
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Hello, does anyone know where I can get the mx-switches itself? I'm looking forward to mod some of my keyboards
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Depends what flavor you're looking for. Mouser has a lot of them and you can find one-off switches on ebay (although expensive).
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I would like to get a pack of every switch
By Mouser, you mean a shop or a GH user?
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Given you're in Germany, the cheaper option is to buy a cheap Cherry board as donor.
http://www.preisroboter.de/search.php?search=cherry+g80&min=&max=&x=0&y=0#/?column=0&min=&max=&shift=0&start=40&in=
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I would like to get a pack of every switch
By Mouser, you mean a shop or a GH user?
http://ca.mouser.com/Home.aspx (http://ca.mouser.com/Home.aspx)
That's mainly for buying switches in bulk. If you want one-offs, check out these (http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=cherry+mx+replacement+switch&_sacat=See-All-Categories).
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http://ca.mouser.com/Home.aspx (http://ca.mouser.com/Home.aspx)
That's mainly for buying switches in bulk. If you want one-offs, check out these (http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=cherry+mx+replacement+switch&_sacat=See-All-Categories).
100 switches from mouser are 72€, a donor cherry board sells for 40€
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I'm assuming the OP wants new switches though.
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Usually a brand new cherry board comes with brand new switches.
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Lol, just saw the link, good point. Only issue will be the extra work ripping and/or de-soldering them out.
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Hmm, any idea where I can get red switches also?
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Lol, just saw the link, good point.
Yes, this doesn't work for you in the US, because the change and the shipment cost will eat all the advantage.
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I think I once saw switches on army group or taobao once, not really sure
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Hmm, any idea where I can get red switches also?
Brown and reds are more oriental things.
They are available from armigroup (a taiwanese site).
They are very cheap there, but they have an idiotic system that charge the shipment cost for every item, so you must write to them to get the correct shipment cost, not the easiest task given the language barrier.
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Ah, thanks for clearing this up :3
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just so you know, if you're placing an order with Mouser and Digi-Key, the springs on the blue, brown, and supposedly red switches are all the same. So you could try a "ghetto red" (black w/ blue spring) then the only problem is finding a brown, because they are NOT like clears.
I would order a couple extra blues and clears, in case you wanted to try a Cyan or Ergo Clear as well. Although after I went through the whole "what switch do I like the best" exercise I settled on plain old clears. But when it comes to keyboard switch preference it is a very personal thing, so you're doing the right thing by trying them out first.
Another option would be to try some used boards off eBay, but the funny thing is I'm typing this on a Choc Pro (left my Filco at work) and the browns in this thing, while still lighter than I'd prefer, are stupidly tactile - way more so than any other brown I've ever typed on. They almost feel just like the ergo clears I had going for a while.