Not another one...

sixty · 17 Apr 2012, 18:21

Found this under the spacebar on a Chicony board today. I think it is better we leave the ancient Cherry days untouched. This is slowly but surely becoming just as confusing as ALPS. But now without further complaining, I present you.... the MX Sky Blue switch

Different slider, different stem, different spring.
Feels like a green, spring looks like a green one too. Probably what became the MX Green switch later on.

RC-1140 · 17 Apr 2012, 18:28

oh gosh, not again... I was happy in the days when the known Cherry switches had the colours Red, Black, Brown, Clear and Blue + the corresponding spacebar types. Then the original whites were easily distinguishable from Clears, and everything was nice and easy.

7bit · 17 Apr 2012, 18:34

sixty wrote:...
Feels like a green, spring looks like a green one too. Probably what became the MX Green switch later on.

The skyblue switch is with the smaller Cherry logo, so maybe a not so old variant?
I should ask my supplier to order 1000 switches of all thinkable product numbers, to see what else they have and maybe still produce!

Just need someone who financiates this.

ps: In the 2nd photo, it looks like a clearblue switch!!!

mintberryminuscrunch · 17 Apr 2012, 18:55

The color of the top part is the same i pmed you about a while back

kbdfr · 17 Apr 2012, 19:11

"Sky blue"?
Isn't that rather "Royal blue"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Shades_of_blue

Just want to make things a bit easier

mintberryminuscrunch · 17 Apr 2012, 19:22

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yes quality sucks
edit: applied filter..
Edit2: left regular, right chicony

7bit · 17 Apr 2012, 20:08

I was wrong in my other post!

The smaller variant is the older, right?

mintberryminuscrunch wrote:
Sem título.jpg
yes quality sucks
edit: applied filter..

This is yet another variant. Sixty's has got a black thingy in it (what is it called?), while your's is black.

You must both meet and compare!

Hey, this turns out to be more interesting than collecting stamps!

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off · 17 Apr 2012, 21:20

So there's a clearsky and a thunderous-sky?
Where clearsky has a small logo, and spring with less loops (so shorter, guessing stiffer?).

daedalus · 20 Apr 2012, 01:20

In b4 Ripster comes on claiming that anything that he didn't discover is irrelevant nitpicking.

002 · 20 Apr 2012, 01:26

The 'McNitpick' effect

ripster · 20 Apr 2012, 01:43

Once in Blue Moon...

I saw you standing there.. Without a care... blue Moon...

ripster · 20 Apr 2012, 02:13

Oh, and the SHAPE of the bottom of the slider is irrelevant.

I once cut the bottom dimple out of a MX switch to confirm this.

Spring coil count and thickness are really the only significant variables..