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Side-view cross-section of a nylon-housing tactile switch — top housing with a faint dashed ghost-ring marking an absent stem-mounted dampening pad, POM stem with a D-shaped flat-plateau tactile bump positioned high in the stroke, coil spring, and nylon bottom housing with a matching absent-pad ghost-ring at the floor, coral resonance arcs radiating above the top housing and below the bottom housing, rendered in a single warm-grey stroke with a coral splash across the plateau contact point

Why the Gazzew Boba U4T Rings Where the Boba U4 Stays Quiet

Same housing, same bump position — the U4T's whole personality comes down to what Gazzew left out. Pull the dampening pads from a Boba U4 and the bottom-out stops being polite.

thockJun 29, 202611 min read

Split cross-section line drawing of a mechanical switch. The left half shows a stem with elastomer pads on the foot of its legs and the top of its rails, picked out in a dusty-rose splash; the right half shows a housing with a dampening ring seated at the floor. Rendered in a single warm-grey stroke with a brass-bronze theme dot at the upper right.

Deep Dives

What a silent switch actually silences — and what it can't

Every keystroke lands twice — once on the floor, once on the ceiling. Cherry molds an elastomer pad onto the stem to catch both; Gazzew fits a silicone one. The undamped Boba U4T shows what either approach is buying — about 14 dB on one tester's meter — and what it costs in travel, rebound, and a bump with nowhere left to go.

thockAug 19, 202610 min read

Three switch silhouettes in a row — a tactile, a silent tactile, and a linear — sharing one continuous housing outline drawn in a single warm-grey stroke, with a coral splash pooled beneath the middle silent-tactile silhouette and a brass-bronze theme dot at the upper right

Deep Dives

The Boba Family: One Housing Blend, Five Switches, and the Sound thock Is Named For

Gazzew designs, Outemu molds, and a plastic softer than nylon does the rest. Every Boba is the same chamber with something deliberately left out — and the pattern of subtractions is the whole family tree.

thockJul 27, 202610 min read

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