Variety neo spring pack hasn’t arrived yet but TTC Hey did.
First impression
In-use impression
Although TTC Hey costs more, I’m finding it to be inferior to TTC Gold Pink in many aspects.
- Sound - Not as solid nor loud as TTC Gold PInk and bottom-out sounds and feels weirdly off, like they’re not landing at the same time. There are also minor noises that TTC Gold Pink lacks, making the sound slightly dirty.
- Feel - 3/4 of the batch is smooth as TTC Gold Pink but remaining 1/4 has a noticeable unevenness in smoothness across the batch switches while in-use. Not sure what could be the cause.
Spring swap
TTC Gold Pink with lubed two-stage spring from TTC Hey - This feels great. Better weight, thumpy clack, consistent smoothness, and change in chewyness from Jello to Gummy Bear. I prefer the Jello chewy but I don’t think it’s possible at this weight range.
TTC Hey with single-stage long spring from TTC Gold Pink - better but still meh.
I’d prefer spring-swapped TTC Gold Pink over TTC Hey any day.
Dr. Frankenstein mode
To be continued in a future post…because both combo above came out pretty good but I lost track of which is which other than one sounded solid and the other sounded bongy (bamboo-like hollow sound) like Bobba LT. Weird, I know.
Warning on Light-tube removal
Doing so will make modding easier and potentially remove keycap interference but also lets switch bottom housing be damaged during hot-swap switch removal. I’m going to be grinding away parts of TTC Hey light-tube as well as its top housing to sleep better at night.