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Title: Cheapest place to get Cherry Blues
Post by: Manyak on Fri, 01 May 2009, 17:43:47

I need 104 of them, and the only place I know of to get them from is Digikey. And $0.64 per switch comes out to $66, which is even more expensive than harvesting them from a Scorpius M10.

Anyone know?


Oh, and maybe around 5 Cherry Greens if anyone actually carries them.

Title: Cheapest place to get Cherry Blues
Post by: huha on Fri, 01 May 2009, 18:06:05

The cheapest way seems to be harvesting them from actual keyboards. It's incredibly stupid, but they're just expensive in small quantities.
Greens seem to be blues with a different spring. I opened one up and it could be the spring used in blacks; I'll elaborate on this as soon as my Cherry G80-3000 with black MX arrives (which was somewhat cheap), but judging from pictures comparing the two, it does look suspiciously like the spring used in blacks.

-huha

Title: Cheapest place to get Cherry Blues
Post by: ozar on Fri, 01 May 2009, 18:09:51

I was thinking that there were a few people here that were talking about going in together on a large quantity of blue cherry switches in order to save some money, but I can't find that thread now, if it ever existed.  Could have just been a dream... don't know.

Title: Cheapest place to get Cherry Blues
Post by: Manyak on Fri, 01 May 2009, 18:25:21

Well if its just the spring used in blacks that makes it easy, since the board I'm going to be switching out uses blacks to begin with (the deck).

So I guess the next question then would be - which cherry blue keyboards use MX1A-EINW and which ones use MX1A-EINN? I'm not 100% sure if they use the ones with the two 'stabilizing posts' or not.

Title: Cheapest place to get Cherry Blues
Post by: huha on Fri, 01 May 2009, 18:37:26

The G80-3000 uses MX1A-E1JW switches.

-huha