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Title: Keyboard Lubricant
Post by: ShakeR on Fri, 31 January 2014, 11:05:40

We've been wanting to stock this, and we only want the good stuff.

You guys have any preferences?

Title: Re: Keyboard Lubricant
Post by: mkawa on Fri, 31 January 2014, 11:15:13

they seem to like krytox

Title: Re: Keyboard Lubricant
Post by: jdcarpe on Fri, 31 January 2014, 11:23:54

DuPont™ Krytox® GPL

103 oil with 205 grease

 or

1506 oil with 206 grease

:D

Title: Re: Keyboard Lubricant
Post by: ShakeR on Fri, 31 January 2014, 11:24:44

You guys rock

Title: Re: Keyboard Lubricant
Post by: Photoelectric on Fri, 31 January 2014, 12:04:23

Also Krytox 103 + Krytox 201.  That's what Limmy put together and many of us got, and it's been great!

http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=44373.0

(Some Q&A in that thread, and Limmy is one of the lubing gurus :D )

Title: Re: Keyboard Lubricant
Post by: mkawa on Fri, 31 January 2014, 18:55:18

limmy has a few misunderstandings about krytox actually.

Title: Re: Keyboard Lubricant
Post by: jdcarpe on Fri, 31 January 2014, 19:44:21

I mean, I would love to try some RO-59 if we can get it affordably, but I doubt I would use it more than I use Krytox.

Title: Re: Keyboard Lubricant
Post by: mkawa on Fri, 31 January 2014, 23:12:22

i've gone into this before, but RO-59 is a hydrocarbon dilution of ptfe powder. the idea behind these so-called "dry" lubes is that the hydrocarbon carries the ptfe particles into place in some self-leveling way (which is a bit of wishful thinking), and then the ptfe particles stay in place from surface tension. then, because the hydrocarbon is extremely volatile (which does not affect the fluorinated compound but does affect abs if you're applying it to that), it vaporizes and you have the ptfe powder layer as lubricant.

in practice, i've only seen it used effectively in situations where you have a very small aperture in a rotating assembly that moves with fairly high energy (and hence can either fluidize the ptfe itself or melt it onto the surface); the very light hydrocarbon carries the fine grains of ptfe into the aperture and then outgasses. the rotating assembly then traps the ptfe in place by melting or fluidizing inside that very small aperture. otherwise, it's just a band-aid. the ptfe just kind of flakes off and then you have no lubricant. keyboard switches really should open-once, if at all, and this model doesn't work very well for them. you're mostly going to end up with a pile of tiny ptfe particles on the bottom of the switch housing, which is not a friction surface in any way.

Title: Re: Keyboard Lubricant
Post by: strict on Sat, 01 February 2014, 16:34:39

Quote from: jdcarpe on Fri, 31 January 2014, 11:23:54

DuPont™ Krytox® GPL

103 oil with 205 grease

 or

1506 oil with 206 grease

:D

+1 for 1506+206 in thin and thick blends like how originative does.