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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: ShapelessJoint on Tue, 07 April 2015, 23:34:23

Title: Cleaning Cherry MX?
Post by: ShapelessJoint on Tue, 07 April 2015, 23:34:23

       
     I spilled sugar sweetened tea on my Cherry MX Brown switches on my Cooler Master Storm Quickfire TK Mechanical Keyboard. I HAVE CLEANED 2-3 TIMES ALREADY with alcohol and cotton swab and each time it works temporarily,only to have the the switches be gunky and sticky a couple days later. Can i clean my switches more thoroughly short of desoldering my board?

Distilled water bath is questionable. IDK what to do. Suggestions Please.

Title: Re: Cleaning Cherry MX?
Post by: katushkin on Tue, 07 April 2015, 23:38:09

When you say you have cleaned with alcohol, what have you done? Have you sprayed the inside of the switches?

What I do is spray a couple of times inside the switch, then actuate it about 25-30 times while blowing inside it to ensure the alcohol evaporates. Then if it's still sticky, I repeat the process.

You could take the switches apart, but if your board is plate mounted then you would have to desolder the switches in order to do that.

Title: Re: Cleaning Cherry MX?
Post by: uJalled on Tue, 07 April 2015, 23:45:19

Not sure if you already seen this, but there's this article

http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-1877421/clean-lubricate-mechanical-keyboard.html