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Title: Place to by alps click leafs
Post by: rich1051414 on Thu, 21 December 2017, 09:57:21
Is there anywhere you can buy loose alps click leafs? I don't know if anyone else has problems with the pinging across the room sometimes, or hooking on your fingernail, but I would really like to have extras, and buying a switch just to harvest a leaf does not seem economical at all.
Title: Re: Place to by alps click leafs
Post by: OfTheWild on Thu, 21 December 2017, 10:29:25
you can probably get the blacks from a dell at101 for free
Title: Re: Place to by alps click leafs
Post by: rich1051414 on Thu, 21 December 2017, 10:51:27
you can probably get the blacks from a dell at101 for free
Blacks are tactile, I need click leafs, and also, where to I acquire free at101s?

I actually have a surplus of tactile leafs as I normally mod towards clicky, as the tactility is better. Cutting a tactile leaf is not the same. This results in a click that is softer and less tactile than a proper click leaf, not to mention inconsistent.  I have been using white alps for click leafs, as the click leaf itself is basically the same design as blue alps, but I don't really like looting them, white switches aren't bad, and they are starting to get more valuable.

Regardless, I was hoping my googlfu was just lacking, and there was a place you could buy click leafs in bulk.
Title: Re: Place to by alps click leafs
Post by: Fluffypupper22 on Thu, 21 December 2017, 14:15:16
If you want extra click leafs you'll have to buy more switches. Keep track of them when disassembling switches and you'll be fine.


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Title: Re: Place to by alps click leafs
Post by: chyros on Thu, 21 December 2017, 14:30:25
Matias?
Title: Re: Place to by alps click leafs
Post by: rich1051414 on Thu, 21 December 2017, 17:35:14
Matias?
Well, I looked, and you can get 200 matias click switches for $50. That isn't bad! I guess that would be the closest thing possible to a supply of click leafs.
Title: Re: Place to by alps click leafs
Post by: klennkellon on Thu, 21 December 2017, 19:28:32
Matias leafs are actually really good and you can buy them brand new.

They're a great way to spruce up more mediocre Alps like black and cream dampened.
Title: Re: Place to by alps click leafs
Post by: OfTheWild on Fri, 22 December 2017, 16:41:47
you can probably get the blacks from a dell at101 for free
Blacks are tactile, I need click leafs, and also, where to I acquire free at101s?

I actually have a surplus of tactile leafs as I normally mod towards clicky, as the tactility is better. Cutting a tactile leaf is not the same. This results in a click that is softer and less tactile than a proper click leaf, not to mention inconsistent.  I have been using white alps for click leafs, as the click leaf itself is basically the same design as blue alps, but I don't really like looting them, white switches aren't bad, and they are starting to get more valuable.

Regardless, I was hoping my googlfu was just lacking, and there was a place you could buy click leafs in bulk.

Right... you want the leaf though, and then make it clicky:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=79539.0

Free AT101's no... but the garbage black alps that came in them: anywhere.