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Is this... Normal?
Leslieann:
--- Quote from: Handke on Thu, 12 May 2022, 05:26:12 ---Thats a plastic plate, polycarbonate. Absolutely normal.
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It certainly happens far more on plastic plates but it also happens with metal plates.
lakeboredom:
--- Quote from: Sup on Thu, 12 May 2022, 05:03:49 ---
--- Quote from: lakeboredom on Tue, 10 May 2022, 17:18:52 ---
--- Quote from: Sup on Tue, 10 May 2022, 09:05:54 ---Its normal. But why are you gonna "Lube" oil kings. There is a reason they have OIL in there name. They are already factory lubed.
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Factory lube/oil is not the same thing as "lubing your switches" despite it using the same name. It's not even comparable.
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What is so different about it. Lubing your switches is just using your preferred lube and being able to control how much lube you apply. Why in the hell would you get a prelubed switch then. Like are you gonna mix your own lube with the pre lube or is he going to painstakingly try to clean all the pre existing lube.
It wasn't much about why people would lube switches themselves but, more like why buy prelubed switches that you gonna lube again???
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Prelubed switches are mainly marketed towards people with their hotswap boards that are too lazy to lube manually, or those that don't appreciate the difference like yourself. And yeah, people who do lube will either lube over the factory stuff, or wipe it off first.
Leslieann:
--- Quote from: lakeboredom on Fri, 13 May 2022, 01:43:18 ---
--- Quote from: Sup on Thu, 12 May 2022, 05:03:49 ---
--- Quote from: lakeboredom on Tue, 10 May 2022, 17:18:52 ---
--- Quote from: Sup on Tue, 10 May 2022, 09:05:54 ---Its normal. But why are you gonna "Lube" oil kings. There is a reason they have OIL in there name. They are already factory lubed.
--- End quote ---
Factory lube/oil is not the same thing as "lubing your switches" despite it using the same name. It's not even comparable.
--- End quote ---
What is so different about it. Lubing your switches is just using your preferred lube and being able to control how much lube you apply. Why in the hell would you get a prelubed switch then. Like are you gonna mix your own lube with the pre lube or is he going to painstakingly try to clean all the pre existing lube.
It wasn't much about why people would lube switches themselves but, more like why buy prelubed switches that you gonna lube again???
--- End quote ---
Prelubed switches are mainly marketed towards people with their hotswap boards that are too lazy to lube manually, or those that don't appreciate the difference like yourself. And yeah, people who do lube will either lube over the factory stuff, or wipe it off first.
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Unless specified all switches are pre-lubed and it has nothing to do with hot swap or soldered boards, they're literally the same switch (except in rare cases).
Some switches have extra lube and some have none but in both instances they will usually be marketed as such specifically because they're a niche product.
People add lube because the factory lube is either insufficient or inconsistent, or they are doing just in case they are. If you build a high dollar soldered board you wouldn't want to assume the factory lube was fine only to later realize it's not and have to risk desoldering to fix it. Also lubing is not just about how much you apply, it's also a matter of how and where you apply it.
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