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geekhack Marketplace => Group Buys and Preorders => Topic started by: squarebox on Thu, 01 September 2011, 13:37:07
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I found a local supplier for Cherry MX switches.
Switch - Price:
MX1A-L1DW - USD$1.20
MX1A-E1JW - USD$1.10
MX1A-G1JW - USD$1.00
Shipping : USD$5 for smaller quantity 10-20
For bigger quantity please inquire or PM me.
(http://forums.vr-zone.com/photopost/data/500/medium/IMG_01994.JPG)
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Local for you means Singapore right?
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Local for you means Singapore right?
I will be shipping it to anyone who wants to purchase them. I'm basically acting as a proxy since the supplier do not deal internationally.
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Basically it is cheaper to harvest them from the full size Leopold, though it is still nice if someone want to buy only a few of these.
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Basically it is cheaper to harvest them from the full size Leopold, though it is still nice if someone want to buy only a few of these.
Yeah, I wonder what the OEMs pay for these in massive quantities.
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i sorta want one of these for a keychain, but paying shipping from Singapore might not be worth it lol
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Singapore Air mail is great, I sent all my stander shipping via them, low price. Just make sure you get the real one, I hear that Red is run low stock even with Cherry. You might sell it on eBay, I do have people ask me for few(like 5-10) of them.
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Armygroup could sell this for 3x less, but shipping from them is awful.
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Armygroup could sell this for 3x less, but shipping from them is awful.
True that.
Squarebox, maybe you can show them the picture of the cherries in the pallet packaging, might rouse some interest ;)
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Someone buy one of each Leopold keyboard. Buyer gets to keep key caps and the rest of the components haha
Edit: Jk, unless the key caps are worth a good amount
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Wish you could get clears.
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Armigroup has them for 30 cents or so
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Wish you could get clears.
No clears in asia.
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Armigroup has them for 30 cents or so ->clears
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Armigroup has them for 30 cents or so ->clears
Not in stock. (at least every time i checked)
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I found a local supplier for Cherry MX switches.
Switch - Price:
MX1A-L1DW - USD$1.20
MX1A-E1JW - USD$1.10
MX1A-G1JW - USD$1.00
Prices excludes shipping.
How much is it with shipping to US. I might be interested in getting a few of them.
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Wish you could get clears.
I think the "soft tactile" switches sold by Mouser and Digi-Key are actually clears, not browns as I initially assumed. Someone here set me straight on that. The ones you can buy through "normal channels" here in the US are blues, clears, and blacks, and it's the reds and (surprisingly) browns that are hard to get.
http://dkc3.digikey.com/PDF/US2011/P2264.pdf
http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Cherry+switches+and+boards
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(surprisingly) browns that are hard to get.
No surprise at all, clears are sold in Europe end US, Browns are sold in Asia because for unknown reasons they like them.
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No surprise at all, clears are sold in Europe end US, Browns are sold in Asia because for unknown reasons they like them.
Not really. Only board you can get in the US with clears is the Deck Legend. Only way we can get them here otherwise is individual switches, or have a European friend send us a Cherry board. (or buy a used POS board. Those apparently got lots of clears for some reason)
I still hope that WASD decides to offer a board with clears out of the box; but then I'd have to sell the one that I already have :)
I still am in that "shiny new toy" stage when I come to work in the morning. It's been a couple weeks since I put the clears in my Filco and it's an absolute joy to type on. I keep waiting for the novelty to wear off, but it still feels great. And I didn't even use new clears, I used ones out of a POS board. If I'd known that I was going to like it this much I probably could have justified buying new switches from Digi-Key though.
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Not really. Only board you can get in the US with clears is the Deck Legend.
Maybe because is the only keyboard made in :usa: ?
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possibly... just not sure why clears don't seem to be used in anything though. I would think that if people actually had the opportunity to try them, the clears would be the default tactile, non-clicky switch not browns, and yet with all the different flavors of mechanical board on the market, nobody but Deck actually makes a board with them.
Are there any "not sold in US" boards besides Cherry that use clear switches?
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Are there any "not sold in US" boards besides Cherry that use clear switches?
I think Deck is it. There was a rumor at one point (maybe even started/perpetuated by Deck themseves) that Cherry was going to discontinue the clears. It doesn't seem to be the case, but who knows? Personally, I find clears too stiff, but YMMV.
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yeah, they are stiff, but at least to me not offensively so, and I find that browns are too light with blues barely acceptable (yeah, I know that the blues use the same spring, but they either require slightly more force to press, or else the audible feedback helps me calibrate my fingers better so as not to bottom out.) Which just goes to show you that there's room in the world for more than one key switch. But of all the Cherry switches I've tried, I have to say that I like clears the best with the never-actually-made ergo clears and blues next. Browns don't even crack the top three. If I ever find some loose blue stems I might try cyans and assume that I'll like those better than browns as well. (maybe if I get real bored I'll change my WASD to cyans and have two never-actually-made keyboards.)
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Are there any "not sold in US" boards besides Cherry that use clear switches?
I think you should reverse the question. Who build MX based keyboards outside the Asia ?
I think very few companies and usually dedicated to vertical applications like Access-IS.
Maybe our galactic expert have some more names...
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Not in stock. (at least every time i checked)
They are in stock.
I got 60 switches from them via a friend visiting Taiwan back in May.
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They are in stock.
I got 60 switches from them via a friend visiting Taiwan back in May.
Then either I'm unlucky or you are lucky.
Nod bad for me as I can get a brand new donor board for 40€ so 38 eurocent per switch, but for the people in the US getting the switches there is a good option.
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any discount if we buy more than 1000 switches?
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How much is it with shipping to US. I might be interested in getting a few of them.
Shipping to the US will be USD$5.
any discount if we buy more than 1000 switches?
PM sent
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Received goods in great condition.
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@Marclgw
Unless I am mistaken, aren't you the one selling the switches at Vr-Zone?
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Any chance you can get the Reds without diodes (MX1A-L1NW)? If not then the MX1A-L1DW will work fine. I'm looking to get 150 of them, so how much would that be with shipping to the U.S.?
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Corrected the count
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@Marclgw
Unless I am mistaken, aren't you the one selling the switches at Vr-Zone?
You ain't wrong =D
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have you received my PM? sent it the 3rd sept.
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any discount if we buy more than 1000 switches?
lol 1000 switches what are you going to do with all of those?
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Have mine been shipped?
Hi Ripster, your switches have been shipped. Cheers.
have you received my PM? sent it the 3rd sept.
Squarebox will reply you asap as he is busy these few weeks.
Sorry about that.
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Any chance you can get the Reds without diodes (MX1A-L1NW)? If not then the MX1A-L1DW will work fine. I'm looking to get 150 of them, so how much would that be with shipping to the U.S.?
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Corrected the count
PM sent.
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Got the switches!
The Reds are hawt! I'll take some closeup pics of the stems/springs.
Finally, I was still wondering and asked squarebox, "When is Ripster going to get his switch".
There you go!:dance:
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I would like 4 Cherry MX Blue switches
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I would like 4 Cherry MX Blue switches
Hi TheProfosist,
Perhaps you would like to PM TS and provide him with your details?
=D
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I pmed squarebox am getting a quote for shipping
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Received my switches today. Thanks squarebox!
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If I remember well MX1A-G1DW = brown and MX1A-E1JW = BLUE.