The lubing mistake everyone makes with their first custom build

So I built my first custom keyboard about 8 months ago and I thought I knew what I was doing with lubing the switches. I bought a little kit with Krytox 205g0 and a brush and just went to town slathering it on every surface I could see. Man, my switches felt like wet noodles after that. Turns out I was putting way too much on the stems and housing walls which killed all the tactile feedback. I had to take apart all 70 switches and clean them with isopropyl alcohol which took me like 4 hours. Now I see people posting their first builds on here with that same goopy over-lubed look on their switch parts. Has anyone else had to redo their switches because they went too heavy on the lube?

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the_mia6d ago

70 switches cleaned with iso? That's on you for not testing one first before doing the whole batch. I put a pretty thick coat of 205g0 on my first set of Gateron Yellows and they still felt fine, just a bit smoother. People on here act like you're ruining your board if you don't hit the exact perfect amount, but most stock switches are scratchy enough that a little extra lube barely matters. You probably just used a sketchy batch of switches or had bad technique if they turned into wet noodles.

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karent756d ago

Exactly. People get way too precious about lube amounts. I drenched a batch of Cherry MX Browns once and they just ended up feeling like smooth, quiet Browns. Still worked fine.

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