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May I ask where have you bought them from?

As-salamu alaykum!
At least more fun than an mx-style switch

photekq wrote: 08 May 2021, 02:17

bujorc wrote: 08 May 2021, 02:00 HAHAHAHAHAHAA! Dumbass! I'm ignorant but you persist in being a dumbass.

Looking forward to your future posts here, brother. You're fun to watch

Ok, it's 25-years old shitty music. Sorry!

And stick to MX style of switches, don't tell me now that Silo or Hall Effect is MX platform just because vendors pitied your keycaps "investments" and thought of throwing you a bone.

Click Leaves?? As in Alps-invented ones or which ones you mean ...

See, you're cherry-picking my statements... we were talking about platforms: inclusion, equality, diversity, etc. Right? Alps the better one! Nobody feels special using Alps. Just lucky boards still survived...

Seeing people throwing more money at the MX platform is saddening, it's so -again ...

I mean... the fact that you like shitty music doesn't change the fact that the music is... shitty. Objectively speaking. There's a reason why the entire French rap didn't get as many awards as Beatles, for example :)

I'm all for inclusion, and Alps was a great platform, offering a wide variety of ...

Wouldn't miss the opportunity to support the discussion with an objective view: MX is a piece of shit platform, except if you're into having a #diverseLED #colourful #stupidly-made-from-metal keyboard which sounds and feels like crap - which, btw, are the most important cues when typing; and I would ...

The Alpha's are Hiragana with a mixture of Lavender, Purple, Light Blue and Black Dye-subs with Coral flair, and a split space.

What is this, a wine tasting event?



Overall, i'm pretty pleased with it.


Sooo... you're saying there's a chance you could sell that? :lol:
Congrats, amazing ...

Smoothness-wise, you can't beat those modern contactless switches. However, linear Alps very much have a certain je ne sais quoi to them, like you said. Linear Alps were also the first linears I liked, as it happens :) .

Greens are lighter than yellows, so if you think they're a little bit too ...

Soqelye wrote: 11 Dec 2020, 04:14more photos

Maybe you could post a typing test, to hear how they sound? How do they feel compared to Alps?

Well, we think we found as close as we're gonna get. TB1855 is a silicone based JIS spec grease that seems to be a direct descendant of the original Alps lube, at least in terms of composition. The only problem is getting a sample of it, as it is not available online anywhere except within ...

fohat wrote: 13 Jul 2020, 17:17
I kept one just as I bought it and another that I transplanted orange sliders and leaves into (from a similarly excellent AEK2, which also turn up pristine from time to time), and I actually prefer that one.

AEK2 with oranges?? Any way to distinguish them from creams and whites?

I, for one, appreciate your determination. Sure, some people here have their own... uhm... hidden interests, but you need to try detecting useful feedback. Look at how much time it took for the replica of the much more simpler buckling spring switches... When we're talking masterpieces, first try to ...

A very fine glass nail file at start and continued with one of those rubbery nail files. Care is needed to keep some parts of the base sharp... you'll see what I mean if you study it carefully. If you've straighten everything (90 degree angles), you still get a good click in a smooth blue alps but ...

Has anyone tried to polish the side of a alps slider ? To get rid of any roughness or scratchiness that results form wear ?
It's the rails that are usually at fault; not sure how one would polish them tbh.


It's not always the rails or the sides of the slider, in my experience is more the ...

Great switches, no question, tons of thanks to lsoelxi for doing this GB!

They are really good but not *that* good, not blue-alps-good :) They're not first gen whites, the clicky leaf is more abrupt (straight angles, not rounded) and the plastic materials are different and also thinner. Those thick ...

adamcobabe wrote: 01 May 2019, 18:37 I received mine yesterday too. Thanks, lsoelxi.

And, first impression?

A few weeks ago, I found an electronics store that had been supplying Alps swtich for a long time.

I was able to find a large amount of Alps SKCM White.

I sold the switch without margin to supply Alps White to many people.


I’m certain that everyone here is super grateful for what you’re doing ...

Nice! Which springs have you used?

Thanks for doing this!

Any patterns/apparent problems on the sliders or with the switches in general. E.g. the recent skcl yellows got those strange patterns on the slider and are therefore not very smooth.
Anyway, +256 SKCM, thanks!

Incredible effort! Posting any video soon? I'm so curios of the differences you mention... maybe you could try explaining in a short video? Thanks!

Making SKCM Blues is impossible. We need serious stuff to determine how are the switches made.

Anyway, I made the survey.This is only a test version (typos and anything else), but I'm just qrious what we'll see.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ogwHouiWN5dKHD27FXRc_YYr8UdvepDDbSGL1Tp-DL0

You'll ...

I'd certainly spend all of my hobby budget on a brand new Alps kickstarter/group buy.

Let's just do it!

THIS! Philosophers are and will be everywhere, and, if you listen to their reasoning, the only switch whose existence makes sense now is the rubber dome. Until the next cost-cutting invention ...

I wonder if we could make a Kickstarter campaign to raise for new tactile leaves like in Lyme green Alps. Make a video with Linus or something. Do tactile and click leaves from for example an SKCM Blue work in a Mathias switch?

I'm in... for any SKCM/SKCL-related initiative, actually :)

As for ...

Great, thanks for making me want it more now
I guess you wouldn't sell it, since it's one of your favourites?

Wondering if anybody here got a black clicky kind of space invaders in great shape and with a big backspace. I think they're called NMB RT 102 (ISO), but maybe there are other brands.

Let me know, thank you!

Some initiative like reviving Alps designs would take you out of this state... Just please don't put your boards on ebay, I'm a ping away

+1
Apples season!

Anybody familiar with these? Does it come with at least 2 nos blue alps under each key cap?

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