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 ==== General Characteristics ====
-Both switches in the series share the same general design, two-stage spring, bottom housing, including integrated diode, and contact module. They also share a similar method of action - i.e. that the slider makes contact with a separate part, which then puts pressure on the contact module. Housings are two-way incompatible between the switches in the series due to the actuator part sitting differently in the housing in each switch.
+Both switches in the series share the same general design, two-stage spring, bottom housing, including integrated diode, and contact module. They also share a similar method of action - i.e. that the stem makes contact with a separate part, which then puts pressure on the contact module. Housings are two-way incompatible between the switches in the series due to the actuator part sitting differently in the housing in each switch.
 ==== Series 6180 Brown ====
-This is the earlier version of the switch, found in an Olympia Carrera dated 1986. It has a dark brown top housing, and a slightly mint green slider. The slider is MX mount, and slides past a semi-free-floating contoured plastic rocker (it merely rests in a recess in the top housing) with a peg on the other side. This peg is what puts pressure on the contact module, closing the circuit. The switch weighting is in the ballpark of [[switch:cherry_mx_black|MX Black]], and has 4mm travel. When fully depressed, the slider is completely inside the housing.
+This is the earlier version of the switch, found in an Olympia Carrera dated 1986. It has a dark brown top housing, and a slightly mint green stem. The stem is MX mount, and slides past a semi-free-floating contoured plastic rocker (it merely rests in a recess in the top housing) with a peg on the other side. This peg is what puts pressure on the contact module, closing the circuit. The switch weighting is in the ballpark of [[switch:cherry_mx_black|MX Black]], and has 4mm travel. When fully depressed, the stem is completely inside the housing.
 ==== Series 6180 Black ====
-This later version of the switch, found in a 1988-dated Carrera, has a completely black top housing and white slider. The slider remains MX mount, but is slightly taller than the brown variant and has a notch. Instead of a plastic rocker, it slides past a uniquely shaped leaf spring, which rests in a slit in the top housing. It has a prong which puts the pressure on the contact module. This switch is significantly heavier ((through unscientific measurement, somewhere in the range of 10-20gf heavier - possibly a combination of a stiffer return spring and weight from the leaf spring)). It still has 4mm travel, but the slider is slightly outside of the housing at bottom out.
+This later version of the switch, found in a 1988-dated Carrera, has a completely black top housing and white stem. The stem remains MX mount, but is slightly taller than the brown variant and has a notch. Instead of a plastic rocker, it slides past a uniquely shaped leaf spring, which rests in a slit in the top housing. It has a prong which puts the pressure on the contact module. This switch is significantly heavier ((through unscientific measurement, somewhere in the range of 10-20gf heavier - possibly a combination of a stiffer return spring and weight from the leaf spring)). It still has 4mm travel, but the stem is slightly outside of the housing at bottom out.
 ==== Gallery ====