Got these Tecsee PME Purple Pandas in the mail yesterday:
The Good
- Cute
- Pretty affordable
- Nice low, muted bottom-out and return sounds, even at faster speeds
- Low stem wobble
- Great housing fitment, no play even after opening multiple times
- Big round P-shaped bump with no pretravel
The Bad
- Really loud leaf ping stock
- Seriously I have filmed them (Deskeys films), lubed the springs, lubed the legs, even carefully dabbed a bit of 3203 in the leaf (I don’t have a syringe to inject 205), and the ping, while much more manageable, is still present. Perhaps not to the point where it would be noticeable in a board unless you’re sensitive to ping, but it’s definitely there.
EDIT: I’ve been told that a dab of 205 behind the leaf almost completely eliminates the ping. These seem enormously promising.