What's the Best, bang-for-buck lubricant for keyboards.
why would I spend a lot of money on these greases that come in small quantities in a test tube from some keyboard site when my father has used teflon grease in his bike since the 90s and I can get the same stuff on Amazon for like 9 bucks
We build bicycles so when I got a leopold keyboard in 2010 or so that had a stabilizer that would bind and squeak it seemed like the most logical thing to do. I took a toothpick (lol) and deposited grease as best I could along all sides of the the stabilizer slider, in the hole where the stabilizer bar went, as well as on the walls outside of the stabilizer. After that it was buttery smooth and I used the board a few years ago and the grease didn't degrade or anything.
Thinking about the inside of a switch I think viscosity would become important since you have tighter tolerances but you don't have to put that thick of a layer of this stuff on to get it to work.
I did some googling, the tube he had was black but I am 99% sure this is the same product: https://www.amazon.com/Finish-Line-Premium-Grease-Fluoropolymer/dp/B002L5YYYA
Acids, petroleum and organic solvents are no-no for plastics and rubber.
Keyboard lubes tend to be based on silicone-based oils, which should be safe on plastics and rubbers as opposed to organic oils. (but a hell to wipe up if you spill it ...)
Hey, congratulations with the career change. Sounds like it was a really tough time and it's good you've made a move to desk jockey.
Perhaps I missed something obvious, but what do you mean by "pinning" lubricants? I managed to get lost when you mentioned things going oblong. Or is this something to do with shaping billets of metal?
Hey, congratulations with the career change. Sounds like it was a really tough time and it's good you've made a move to desk jockey.
Perhaps I missed something obvious, but what do you mean by "pinning" lubricants? I managed to get lost when you mentioned things going oblong. Or is this something to do with shaping billets of metal?
Ok, not all teflon or teflon material or PTFE is used in lubricants. What I worked on was teflon and ptfe billets....Show Image(https://www.roechling-industrial.com/fileadmin/media/Roechling-Industrial/Products/images/PTFE-products-PTFE-tube-billets.jpg)
something like this. anywhere from very small to larger than a person. PTFE grease and other teflon based lubricants or products are usually either made from ground up baked teflon (scraps from billets) or pure powder (before baking)
I will update the original post with visual representations of the process.
Interestingly PTFE is as said the least expensive "Dupont Teflon". It however makes for the best sounding audiophile cable "skin" or more technically "dielectric". The funny thing is that even though it is the cheapest,That is relative: maybe the least expensive Dupont, but normally there are far cheaper materials in use; Teflon is a noble dielectric
and other materials such as copper conductors are cheapAgain, that is relative. Heavy gauge copper wire is expensive enough that is stolen from railway lines. But I concur that in comparison to silver, copper is relatively cheap.
a 6 foot cable can run into six figures!Which one? You should be fine with five or even four figures :p
This is what I call voodoo rich sucker ripoff.It's called electrodynamics. I studied it. There is a science behind it.
You can get subjectively just as good sounding cables for a mere $30. In fact, made of the same exact internal componentry.(https://66.media.tumblr.com/2b3b1281b68cbd2f386e098dd06652c0/tumblr_na3uf85IZZ1sorqj6o4_250.gif)
Okay, time to come clean. I wanted to see how many "sheep" were even here. Since these tend to be tech savvy people. My "small" system is completely wired with Odin II. My reference system is completely wired with Transparent Magnum Opus. I do not enjoy mixing cables unless you are trying to "tune" something. Although there are usually better means of doing that first. I am so ingrained in this, that if someone swapped out "X" cable I would be insisting my system is broken! It is true that there is a lot of engineering, R&D, overhead, labor, equipment cost....The list goes on. It costs a lot of money to make these cables outside of China. You are spot on. I was just playing a game. It is not that you can't trust me. I just wanted to test the waters before people insisted that I was a fool. A lot of people do in fact think these cables are nonsense. I can attest that they are not at all. Of course you do not go stick $200,000 of cables on $1,500 of components either. In that, case you would in fact most likely realize very little sonic impact. No one does that anyways.
five-figure cablesI'd rather invite live musicians every time I want music in my house
five-figure cablesI'd rather invite live musicians every time I want music in my house
Both of which has not a single album with great dynamic range.You can invite Sophie Ellis-Bextor or Lana Del Rey over for a personal performance, maybe they are inclined to do that! I think in the long run it's better to play a record xDfive-figure cablesI'd rather invite live musicians every time I want music in my house
Both of which has not a single album with great dynamic range.
What I said had nothing to do with music taste, simply in regards to sound quality.QuoteBoth of which has not a single album with great dynamic range.
It would be a grand mistake to rule out recordings because of their quality. You'd miss out.
Of course, you want to pick up the best sounding version, like XRCD or MFSL, if available.
Read up on the Loudness War