Rantopad MT Aegis mechanical switch information

[vampiredirt]

Hello,

I recently purchased a Rantopad MT Aegis mechanical keyboard. I negotiated the price down significantly, so I took a chance on it. I’m curious if anybody knows more about the switch design. I popped a keycap off and it looks like a MX Cherry blue clone (black body with a blue plus that goes up and down) with the word “Rantopoad” written on the body.

I think this statement from their website is referencing the manufacturing of the switch:

“Rantopad cooperate in the development joint of new shaft factory is the most suitable for game player DIY extension of green axis and orange axis,in addition to reproduce the German original MX axis of green axis and black axis hand feeling, carefully adjusted the trigger force to be lighter 5g, more suitable for game palyer long time use without fatigue.”

I think they are trying to say that they entered a joint venture with another company to create a unique switch for their keyboard. I'm creating this post to ask if anybody knows which company they worked with and whether these switches are good quality. I couldn’t find any information about Rantopad in the forums here or on Deskthority. 

I did find this exploded diagram of their switch on a Chinese retailer's website:



I ran it through Google translate:

The top reads: “Which lasted 180 days provided it develops the mechanical axis of the laser firing lasted for four months to travel 1.5mm measured 50 million times life without any electrical false although axis minus shaking spring feel bold oversized gold plated contacts prevent imported polymer hydrogenation Switzerland Yan filling materials reduce the friction out of Chuan probability lead to double-click. “

- The orange plus thing (mine is blue) reads: “Bold cross shaft, put an end to the shaft body shaking, so keycap tighter fit”

- The spring reads: Top Hanguo Qin wire spring, long lasting, provide consistent stretch.” [I think Hanguo Qin is a Korean company?]

- The contact reads: “Large gold contacts provide excellent stability”.

A lot of this is meaningless to me, because I don't know what goes in to making a quality switch. I hope it helps somebody here identify the switch manufacturer. This is the most I've been able to discover. If I find out anything more, I will update this post.

Thank you in advance for your help.

[chyros]

There are more Cherry MX clones than you can count, so in all probability it is indeed a 1-on-1 clone, with some fancy colours thrown in to attract attention. Hopefully the dyes don't compromise the quality of the plastic, which is known to occur sometimes.

"Gold-plated contacts" means the typical lifetime has been extended from 20 to 50 million cycles as the contacts are the weak point in the switch. Essentially it's a buzzword used by manufacturers and people who do sponsored reviews. Gold contacts have absolutely nothing to do with stability as far as I'm aware.

The high-quality non-friction plastic means they're using buzzwords to try and compensate for the lack of lubricant in their switches (lube is expensive).

Advertising a "long-lasting spring" means they're scraping the bottom of the barrel, springs last almost indefinitely so even if they were high-quality, which almost certainly they're not, they're absolutely irrelevant.

[FoxWolf1]

Suspect these switches might be OEM'd by Gateron. Prototype versions of the switch had that same circular indentation around the base of the stem that early Gaterons had. When Gateron went to normal-shaped stems, so did Rantopad. Rantopad also uses Gateron switches (this time with Gateron branding) on their TKL model, the MXX.

Early Gateron switch:


Early Rantopad switch: