Looking for Cherry "G" series keyboard keyswithces

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Can someone point me to a source for some Cherry "G: series keyboard
keyswitches? All I can find at Cherry's site are their current MX1
series.

These are the older and bigger style keyswitches that were used in
most keyboards from about mid 70's to near 1990.

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.

I have tried the obvious places like Jameco, Digikey, Allied, and
Mouser. I thought Jameco used to have them but do not see them any
more.

Thank you.
 
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:50:37 -0700 (PDT), jpruitt67@gmail.com wrote:

Can someone point me to a source for some Cherry "G: series keyboard
keyswitches? All I can find at Cherry's site are their current MX1
series.

These are the older and bigger style keyswitches that were used in
most keyboards from about mid 70's to near 1990.

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.

I have tried the obvious places like Jameco, Digikey, Allied, and
Mouser. I thought Jameco used to have them but do not see them any
more.
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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.

--
Rich Webb Norfolk, VA
 
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:15:09 -0700 (PDT), Southerner
<jpruitt67@gmail.com> 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.
Click to expand...
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.

--
Rich Webb Norfolk, VA
 
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.
Click to expand...

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

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:15:09 -0700 (PDT), Southerner
jpruitt67@gmail.com> 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.
Click to expand...
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.

--
Rich Webb Norfolk, VA
 
Yes that does look like the item. The only thing different would be
the little uprights on top of the mounting flange but those will just
help keep the keytop straight.

Thank you.

Jim Pruitt

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.

--
Rich Webb     Norfolk, VA
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