Cherry MX Whites Source

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Thanks for the heads up and checking on your board. Definitely going to do a check on all switches before they get wired in. Not that a slight difference is a big deal but click/no click would drive me nuts.

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Thanks @Lesbian I’ll keep my eyes open.

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So you actually went ahead and lubed Greens and did not wind up with Whites, in fact the resulting switch was horrible, worse than a Brown, and you threw it away.

But, we’re still calling MX Whites “lubed Greens” because theoretically, not in practice, that’s what they feel like.

You know what? I think I’m gonna take my Ducky to the next meetup and sit it right next to the Monolith. It’s a magical unicorn, I shall label it as such.

Edited to note that I think this is funny, I’m actually laughing right now, and science etc.

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So MX Whites are lubed, but not in the way we as enthusiasts would think of it. They are just lightly lubed on the slider rails of the click jacket & not at any other points.

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Also I have made the mistake of trying to lube MX Whites into submission in the vain attempt at gaining consistency across a batch of them (@pixelpusher’s description of lubed MX clicky switches is spot on IME) & have ultrasonic cleaned some of those. IME with all three types of MX Whites (stock, lubed with VPF1514, & cleaned) the most consistent ones were the ones cleaned of all lube. Which behave, sound, & feel almost just like MX Greens, because well for all intents & purposes they are at that point.

I think @beaker’s experience with his Ducky board is because Ducky probably ordered their MX Whites without the factory lube. He is not the first person I have heard say they have/had a Ducky board with consistent MX Whites in it (although he is the first to offer up the evidence) & he says all of his click to this day. With stock MX Whites the sound really isn’t a click, it’s more of a reverberation through the spring, metallic type noise vs the sound of MX blue/greens (or cleaned MX Whites). So venturing a guess I would say Ducky probably ordered their MX Whites without the lube on the click jacket, just so they could say they offer the full range of Cherry switches & not deal with the inconsistency.

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