GL Base

I managed to break my original white base by overtightening one of the screws holding one of the bottom switches. The nut was not centred correctly, and bore a small gap, resulting in one of the screws spinning round and never actually tightening the switch to the base anymore, rendering it useless. I ordered the black base as my replacement and paid more attention to making sure the nuts are correctly centered before tightening the screws. That problem aside, my IST grommets didn’t initially fit the black base design because of the four ‘posts’ within the black unit. You could just order the custom ASI grommets but I didn’t know this when I placed my order, so I just used a dremmel and bore the four holes into my existing IST grommet until it fitted! It worked now I’m back in business.. I prefer to set my A5 switches by hand, setting one at a time then tightening when I get the throw distance and activation correct, by listening for the click just before the stick hits the gate. This is a good solid base for your lever setup as long as you look after it and pay careful attention to the base screws and particularly the nuts holding the switches.

Love both the black and white variable bases. They allow me to use smallest switch spacing for AH7 and Cherry switches. Keeping hex nuts in place while screwing replacing microswitch can be tricky.

Having tested the black core is really impressed me overall. Paired together with the new X tension variant of the new GL silicons. Having tighter tolerances really do help with the neutral stick tension and I noticed it immediately.

GL base is good but the m3 screw come with it is not long enough go through microswitch to base. Little bit 😔