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Line-drawing cross-section of an IBM Model M buckling-spring keyswitch, shown mid-buckle: a coil spring bowing sideways inside its guide barrel, handing off to a pivoting hammer/flipper on a fixed pivot, which strikes a raised contact pucker on a membrane sheet below — an amber focal dot and ring mark the strike point.

How buckling-spring switches actually work

thock has already reached for the buckling-spring snap twice — once to describe a Topre dome, once to describe a click-bar's sharpness — without ever explaining what a buckling spring actually is. The mechanism predates both, and it is stranger and more mechanically honest than either.

thockJul 26, 202610 min read

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