#Better tolerances and build quality on lekker switches

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long lily
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I've found that the tolerances on the switches that came with my Wooting 60HE were quite poor relative to many other mech keyboards and switches I've used before it, most of them far cheaper keyboards than this. For example, the switch housing itself doesn't fit very securely on almost all the switches I received, and has quite a bit of wobble - meanwhile even cheap switches from the same manufacterer, like gateron yellows, have significantly better tolerances where there is no such wobble. Another example is that the tabs (especially the north facing ones) break very easily, and also don't have good tolerances. Even when the keyboard came stock, 2 of these switches on my keyboard already had these tabs snapped and caving in - because the tolerance was so bad, the part thats supposed to sit at the top of the plate, went all the way down to the middle of the plate. In total, about a quarter of the upper tabs on the switches on my 60HE were on the verge of breaking, they already had very visible crease lines running through them. Some of them naturally broke even with a lot of care when I needed to take them out. I've never had this happen with 6 other switch types (many hundreds of switches in total) that I've pulled out countless times before this.

Its not a major functional issue as the switches still do their job and the keyboard works, but it does contribute to a keyboard that doesn't give off the impression of quality it should give at its price point.