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Offline nova779

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Best Place to Buy Cherry MX Switches
« on: Sun, 18 January 2015, 16:20:23 »
I'm building a Phantom and doing some mods to my current boards and everywhere I find seems to have really unreasonable prices on switches, so I was wondering if you guys could suggest a place to buy Switches, I want greens, blues, blacks, reds, clears, and browns

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Re: Best Place to Buy Cherry MX Switches
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 18 January 2015, 16:20:45 »
mechanicalkeyboards.com

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Re: Best Place to Buy Cherry MX Switches
« Reply #2 on: Sun, 18 January 2015, 16:24:06 »
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Re: Best Place to Buy Cherry MX Switches
« Reply #3 on: Sun, 18 January 2015, 16:31:05 »
It's worth looking on ebay for some vintage boards if you're ok with desoldering!

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Re: Best Place to Buy Cherry MX Switches
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Re: Best Place to Buy Cherry MX Switches
« Reply #10 on: Sun, 18 January 2015, 20:35:11 »
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Re: Best Place to Buy Cherry MX Switches
« Reply #11 on: Mon, 19 January 2015, 02:32:09 »
TechKeys.us has Blacks for a pretty darn good price. keep in mind that the red and browns are not Cherry.
http://techkeys.us/collections/accessories/products/keyboard-switches
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Re: Best Place to Buy Cherry MX Switches
« Reply #12 on: Mon, 19 January 2015, 06:32:38 »
Zeal has great prices! I wonder what his source is?

Another good source can be 2nd hand boards on ebay. You can usually find a few older Cherry G80 boards for reasonable prices. I actually bought a pair of brand new ones to get Clears for some of my projects.
Buying more keycaps,
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Re: Best Place to Buy Cherry MX Switches
« Reply #13 on: Wed, 21 January 2015, 10:36:00 »
Thanks for all the help, I am probably going with mechanicalkeyboards.com or mouser due to them being the best prices I can find for bulk switch buying and don't feel comfortable buying a used board on Ebay the last three times I bough or sold something on Ebay it arrived broken or I shipped it out and they sent it back broken, thanks again guys.

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Re: Best Place to Buy Cherry MX Switches
« Reply #14 on: Mon, 26 January 2015, 10:00:09 »
Also not to make clutter and annoyance, I was wondering if there was anywhere that sold 7x plate mounted cherry stabs, and just the other necessary cherry stabilizers

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Re: Best Place to Buy Cherry MX Switches
« Reply #15 on: Mon, 26 January 2015, 10:24:59 »
For UK there is the keyboard co but they are pretty expensive. Great value for matias switches however.

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Re: Best Place to Buy Cherry MX Switches
« Reply #16 on: Mon, 26 January 2015, 11:25:49 »
Also not to make clutter and annoyance, I was wondering if there was anywhere that sold 7x plate mounted cherry stabs, and just the other necessary cherry stabilizers
You can get them at mouser afaik, but also at  gonskeyboardworks.com , imsto.cn at ctrlalt.io (ask bunny) to name a few
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