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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: PerniciousPony on Thu, 27 December 2018, 11:46:19
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I believe that I may have found something interesting while harvesting some old Wyse boards. I bought a lot of Wyse WY-50 boards to harvest switches from, and one of the boards in the lot had several switches in it that I've never seen before. They are functionally the same as other vintage blacks, but these have the logo on the side of the switch instead of the top. I've been looking around the interwebs to see if anyone else has posted about switches like these but haven't been able to find any other documentation.
(https://i.imgur.com/VyLohTz.jpg)
Here is a small album of pics (https://imgur.com/a/xEZ3lkF)
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Interesting, is that a tiny metal screw of some sort going through the top where the logo would normally be located? Any pics of the internals?
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Interesting, is that a tiny metal screw of some sort going through the top where the logo would normally be located? Any pics of the internals?
I believe it's the injection sprue! I can take a pic of the internals compared to other blacks I've got, but they look identical to me. The only difference I was able to find was the top housing logo placement.
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I have an MX blue switch like that.
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Interesting, is that a tiny metal screw of some sort going through the top where the logo would normally be located? Any pics of the internals?
I believe it's the injection sprue! I can take a pic of the internals compared to other blacks I've got, but they look identical to me. The only difference I was able to find was the top housing logo placement.
It gleamed almost metallic, so I thought maybe it was a metal pin, but injection sprue makes sense. Photos of internals for documentation purposes would be great.
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Ive never seen one, but ive only torn up like 10 vintage black boards.
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That poor Cherry logo is incomplete too, the leaf portion is missing.