Re: Looking for Cherry "G" series keyboard keyswithces

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:08:23 -0400, Rich Webb
<bbew.ar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:15:09 -0700 (PDT), Southerner
<jpruitt67@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


They are 17mm from bottom of plastic to bottom of mounting ring and
are 14.5mm on a side and are 30mm from tip of actuator shaft to bottom
of plastic.  They are pc board mount.  The actuator shaft is 3 legged
or "T" shaped where the keytop goes into it.

What quantities are you looking for? I have an ancient Cherry keyboard
that I picked up as surplus back in the 80s (latest date codes on the
TTLs are 1979) that I'll never use as a keyboard as such but the key
switches are great for, well, switches. The dimensions you show are
about right, except the footprint is rectangular, not 14.5 square.



I need one keyswitch but was looking for a few spares too. I did
contact Cherry but they want a picture of the switch before they can
even tell me anything about it.

I can probably spare a few but let me pop one out tomorrow night and do
a dimensioned drawing for you to compare with what you have there. Since
Google Groups doesn't carry alt.binaries.schematics.electronic, I'll
toss it over to ImageShack and post a link.

And here's the link:
http://img384.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cherryswitchdj8.png

It did get a little uglified in the transition from DWG -> Corel -> PNG
but it should be recognizable.

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Rich Webb Norfolk, VA
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