I haven't yet modified any black Alps switches, but I have a NIB Dell AT101W with black Alps that I would like to modify one of these days. I was inspired to do this by Chyros' video in which he click-modded one of these Dell "bigfoot" boards, which he then dubbed ""The Clickfoot".//gainsborough wrote: @hypersphere - I think I've decided to mod the older logo one =) And your words of encouragement to mod things so that I would get more use has inspired me to do something with my black alps wang as well. Have you modded black alps before? I was thinking of doing something like using white alps click leaves with orange sliders.
I and others have found that there is a major difference in bamboo (no slits) vs. pine (slits) Alps top switch housings, so provided the tops would fit on black Alps switches, when I get around to hybridizing them, I would want to include swapping out the black Alps tops with pine tops from, say, white or orange Alps.
Although I like the look of yellow or orange sliders, they are not visible when the caps are in place, and I am not sure they confer any advantage over white sliders. My crude measurements of slider friction indicated that the newer white sliders appear to be more slippery than sliders from older switches that apparently used some sort of dry lube, so new white sliders might have the advantage of not requiring any additional lubrication. However, there could be other subtle differences in construction of different generations of sliders. I need to break out the calipers and do some proper measurements, although dimensions alone will not reveal much about their potential effects of different sliders on, say, the sound or feel of the assembled switch.
