A little experiment: Matias quiet click switch

[ctm]

Just for fun, I disassemble one Matias quiet switch (grey stem) and one Matias clicky switch (white stem) and put the grey stem with rubber dampers into the clicky switch. Not surprisingly, it is still as clicky as before but quieter, especially when bottoming out. It helps eliminate the clack sound. I don't understand why Matias do not make clicky switches with built-in dampers.

[hwood34]

Hmm, that certainly would be nice for a quiet tactile switch

[Daniel Beardsmore]

See, I would prefer tactile without the dampers ;-)

[Oobly]

Interesting, nice mod. More options for Alps lovers

[jacobolus]

Yep. People have been doing the same thing with Matias quiet switches since they showed up, and since before that with dampened and clicky Alps switches.

If you swap the leaves in the quiet and clicky Matias switches, both of the resulting switches are pretty nice, both the damped clicky one and the undamped tactile one. Undamped linear is also probably pretty nice.

[ctm]

Cool. I think I will get a few quiet tactile and linear switches next time and do more experiment with them. For now I only have one spare quiet switch to play with, which came from the esc key on my KBP V60MTS (I replace it with a clicky one, just for fun).

[Hyde]

I actually thought about this ever since the Matias tour.  Except I got lazy and shortly after I dived into Topre so I forgot about it.

I actually still have a few switches lying around so I should give this a shot.