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I'm a Kailh Box Jade user, I love them to bits, but I understand that I am extremely niche. It's an interesting choice to sell them in prebuilts to a wide audie
by zamalek 5y ago
I'm a Kailh Box Jade user, I love them to bits, but I understand that I am extremely niche. It's an interesting choice to sell them in prebuilts to a wide audience.
There's also tons of rattle in both sound tests, possibly stabilizers or the springs. I strongly recommend lubing the springs if you do pick one of these up (4-5 hours of work). Lubing the Jade clickbar also changes the sounds from a "thack" to a "thock," without changing the tactile profile much (unlike regular tactile switches). Something to consider if you find that the Jade pitch is unpleasant.
- amatecha 5y agoI like Jade and Navy .. so nice! I'd love to build a keyboard using either of those sometime. But I already have too many keyboards... (not that that's ever stopped me yet haha)
- sascha_sl 5y agoLubing box switches on the mechanism is not recommended. Just the spring. Box switches are designed to be self-cleaning. If you want a thock in a box switch, get Royals. If you want that effort of lubing to go up to days, you could use multiple layers of RO-59. That's a bonding lubricant, so the effect will not even close to be as pronounced, but you can't get it off easily.