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Offline aegrotatio

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Why do sellers call them "sliders?"
« on: Wed, 18 August 2010, 23:23:48 »
I have a very simple question.  Why do sellers call them "sliders?"  What type of switches are they referring to when they say this?  ALPS?
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Offline aegrotatio

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Why do sellers call them "sliders?"
« Reply #1 on: Wed, 18 August 2010, 23:32:21 »
Yeah, goes down the same way they come out.
I miss the frozen box of square cheeseburgers.
But that was the 1970s.
Sigh.
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Offline ManjyomeThunder

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Why do sellers call them "sliders?"
« Reply #2 on: Thu, 19 August 2010, 02:02:02 »
Quote from: aegrotatio;214258
Yeah, goes down the same way they come out.
I miss the frozen box of square cheeseburgers.
But that was the 1970s.
Sigh.

Local grocery store still has boxes of White Castle hamburgers and cheeseburgers.

*insert something relevant to OP's question here*
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Offline Oqsy

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« Reply #3 on: Thu, 19 August 2010, 02:43:07 »
Plastic sliding against plastic...  I get it.
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Offline itlnstln

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« Reply #4 on: Thu, 19 August 2010, 08:12:32 »
I always considered the slider as part of the switch, but yeah, I have seen that term used on eBay regarding the entire switch.
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Offline ch_123

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« Reply #5 on: Thu, 19 August 2010, 08:19:14 »
Some sellers (eg. ncbound10) will say things like "Blue sliders" or "White sliders", which is accurate, although without mentioning the switch type, it gets a bit confusing.
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Offline itlnstln

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« Reply #6 on: Thu, 19 August 2010, 10:06:53 »
You forgot "clicky."
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Offline RoboKrikit

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« Reply #7 on: Thu, 19 August 2010, 20:05:48 »
"Minty"
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Offline itlnstln

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« Reply #8 on: Fri, 20 August 2010, 07:03:38 »
Oooh, I hate that one.  Every time I buy something that's "minty," it never smells like that when I get it.
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Offline washuai

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Why do sellers call them "sliders?"
« Reply #9 on: Fri, 20 August 2010, 09:32:38 »
I hate minty for the opposite reason.  Things end up being minty, but the minty is just to cover up inferior ingrediants, because it is such a dominating scent/taste.

That said, I have some love of wintergreen and have to use peppermint medicinally.  The point there in those cases is it is all about the mint by itself, rather than blatantly masking badness with mint.

OT - I saw a compaq mx 11800 advertised as burgandy sliders.  I don't know how you look at brown (picture posted) and interpret that as burgandy.  It is weirder than calling the switch a slider.
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