Switch Identification
- Muirium
- µ
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Main keyboard: HHKB Type-S with Bluetooth by Hasu
- Main mouse: Apple Magic Mouse
- Favorite switch: Gotta Try 'Em All
- DT Pro Member: µ
Definitely weird for a switch to be so flush with the plate. You can see the PCB just below, so these are pretty damn low profile switches. Unless maybe we're actually seeing inside them, and the tops came off in the caps or elsewhere?
Space invader switches (which these aren't) tend to pop right open when you pull the caps. They were also designed to be low profile.
Space invader switches (which these aren't) tend to pop right open when you pull the caps. They were also designed to be low profile.
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- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
- DT Pro Member: 0011
I don't think they are flush with the plate, just that the sheet metal is thin.
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- Location: USA
- Main keyboard: KBC Poker MX Red
- Main mouse: Logitech MX Revolution
- Favorite switch: MX Red
- DT Pro Member: -
I think they are some type of magnetic switch I have seen before in an old teletype but I don't recall who made them. They are not really low profile... they are like 3cm tall switch, or more like 5cm from top of stem to bottom of housing. Top is flush with the plate surface.
- HaaTa
- Master Kiibohd Hunter
- Location: San Jose, California, USA
- Main keyboard: Depends the day
- Main mouse: CST L-TracX
- Favorite switch: Fujitsu Leaf Spring/Topre/BS/Super Alps
- DT Pro Member: 0006
- Contact:
Beardsmore calls and I reply.
Oak switches, I recently got some of these (a few months ago). Two types I've seen. The keyboard I have with the ones pictured are so corroded that the springs are disintegrating...
The cross mount ones have patent numbers on them (https://www.google.com/patents/US3708635). These do not (I believe they are older).
Amusingly, the patent clearly describes the older switches (the newer ones have a bit different housing and are smaller).
It's hard to tell with my corroded ones (I believe these ones are linear), but, the other switches are somewhat tactile (there are some locking versions as well, red sliders).
Some of the switches have dual contacts like some older cherry switches (others do not).
Sorry for the dirty switches, the keyboard must have come out of a swamp (I'm not joking...). Took me about 8 hours to desolder the switches because of all the filth on the pcb...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/triplehaa ... 848674334/
I don't have a name yet...but since we have the patent, perhaps a bit of progress can be made.
Oak switches, I recently got some of these (a few months ago). Two types I've seen. The keyboard I have with the ones pictured are so corroded that the springs are disintegrating...
The cross mount ones have patent numbers on them (https://www.google.com/patents/US3708635). These do not (I believe they are older).
Amusingly, the patent clearly describes the older switches (the newer ones have a bit different housing and are smaller).
It's hard to tell with my corroded ones (I believe these ones are linear), but, the other switches are somewhat tactile (there are some locking versions as well, red sliders).
Some of the switches have dual contacts like some older cherry switches (others do not).
Sorry for the dirty switches, the keyboard must have come out of a swamp (I'm not joking...). Took me about 8 hours to desolder the switches because of all the filth on the pcb...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/triplehaa ... 848674334/
I don't have a name yet...but since we have the patent, perhaps a bit of progress can be made.
- Muirium
- µ
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Main keyboard: HHKB Type-S with Bluetooth by Hasu
- Main mouse: Apple Magic Mouse
- Favorite switch: Gotta Try 'Em All
- DT Pro Member: µ
Oh, Oak! Makers of the industrial IBM Model F XT that isn't quite what it seems…
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-IBM-Ind ... 3cde8aaef5
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-IBM-Ind ... 3cde8aaef5
- Daniel Beardsmore
- Location: Hertfordshire, England
- Main keyboard: Filco Majestouch 1 (home)/Poker II backlit (work)
- Main mouse: MS IMO 1.1
- Favorite switch: Probably not whatever I wrote here
- DT Pro Member: -
- Contact:
Ah, so the metal tabs are part of a plate mount harness that attaches to the switch, rather than being part of the switch.
I thought finally we'd found something HaaTa didn't have ... :P
I thought finally we'd found something HaaTa didn't have ... :P
- Muirium
- µ
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Main keyboard: HHKB Type-S with Bluetooth by Hasu
- Main mouse: Apple Magic Mouse
- Favorite switch: Gotta Try 'Em All
- DT Pro Member: µ
Amazing to think that something like this:
Fits inside the gap in this:
Perspective bending photography at its finest. Not quite as "low profile" as it seems!
Fits inside the gap in this:
Perspective bending photography at its finest. Not quite as "low profile" as it seems!
- Daniel Beardsmore
- Location: Hertfordshire, England
- Main keyboard: Filco Majestouch 1 (home)/Poker II backlit (work)
- Main mouse: MS IMO 1.1
- Favorite switch: Probably not whatever I wrote here
- DT Pro Member: -
- Contact:
What's your macro photography like? :)
- Muirium
- µ
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Main keyboard: HHKB Type-S with Bluetooth by Hasu
- Main mouse: Apple Magic Mouse
- Favorite switch: Gotta Try 'Em All
- DT Pro Member: µ
Fancier camera than I've got (Canon EOS 350D) and I'm currently top dog in the DT banner stakes. The lens is the important part. Then just pay all your attention to the light…
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- Location: USA
- Main keyboard: MX1800 L3
- DT Pro Member: 0251
- pyrelink
- Location: USA
- Main keyboard: HHKB 2
- Main mouse: CST L-Trac
- Favorite switch: Capacitive Buckling Spring
- DT Pro Member: -
Ah! So they did make non membrane Oak Switches. I saw these same switches on Reddit a while back. Someone pulled them out of an old arcade machine or something and they were looking for a replacement
Very cool to see.
Very cool to see.
- Daniel Beardsmore
- Location: Hertfordshire, England
- Main keyboard: Filco Majestouch 1 (home)/Poker II backlit (work)
- Main mouse: MS IMO 1.1
- Favorite switch: Probably not whatever I wrote here
- DT Pro Member: -
- Contact:
Seems awfully rich for an arcade machine …
- pyrelink
- Location: USA
- Main keyboard: HHKB 2
- Main mouse: CST L-Trac
- Favorite switch: Capacitive Buckling Spring
- DT Pro Member: -
Here is the post I was referring too.
After seeing the post again, I probably wouldn't consider that an "Arcade Machine" in the same vein as something like Pac-Mac. Seeing as this machine was made in 1971 by the founders of Atari - before Atari or Namco, etc. were founded.
After seeing the post again, I probably wouldn't consider that an "Arcade Machine" in the same vein as something like Pac-Mac. Seeing as this machine was made in 1971 by the founders of Atari - before Atari or Namco, etc. were founded.