Monterey K110 with Hua-Jie switches

chzel · 01 Mar 2015, 00:24

A few weeks ago I received a nice package from Daniel Beardsmore (more info here).
A Monterey K110 and a few goodies!

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Fast forward to bare board..many switches
Note the Costar-style stabs

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More switches!

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The controller

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Clearly labeled connectors are a favorite!

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Grounding the plate with a solder blob...not so much..

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Small-ass Enter stab arrangement

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Funky 20-year-old grease!

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OMG, they used freaking LazZors!!!1

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On the front too!!1

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chzel · 01 Mar 2015, 00:24

Let's get busy!
Tweety is helping out...

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Bottom of Hua-Jie switch

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Top with numbering, varies across the board

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Internals

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The click leaf. Very "snappy" and satisfying click. Remove it and you've got a smooooth linear switch!

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One of the yellow switches (from the F-row).

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It has a shorter travel but feels the same. How did they do it?
Internals:

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Externally they are the same.

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Internals pretty much the same. Only the slider colour (obviously) and the spring are different.

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Here is where the magic happens!
Longer posts to move the bottom-out further up!

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And the last pic...

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Are you pondering what I am pondering???
NARF!

Mal-2 · 01 Mar 2015, 01:07

chzel wrote: ↑ Are you pondering what I am pondering???
NARF!

I think so Brain, but how are we going to type using ninety-nine bottles of beer?

Daniel Beardsmore · 01 Mar 2015, 01:57

Interesting — that's the exact same lower shell mould as alps.tw's T8 switch:

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I don't understand the principle behind their numbering system, but 7E77 is combination number 15,677 in sequence (ignoring lame maths errors, or 4,877 if you take the letter part to stop at H which is about as high as I've seen it go), yet two randomly-selected switches from two different switch models (AK-CN2 and AK-D5¹) both share the same mould! It's also not the first time that I've seen the same mould number twice. I've wondered previously about just how many moulds they actually did have, considering the amount of combinations possible in their schema.

¹ AK-D5 is a guess, as the data sheets say that AK-DN2 and AK-D5 (which has an orange slider) are both reported to be clicky, while linear switches are confirmed to exist. The source keyboard for the photo above is unknown. It might be that the linear switch in the photo was a custom order: D5 with the click leaf omitted by the factory.