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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: manna on Thu, 16 April 2015, 19:02:45

Title: Lubing cherry mx without disassembling
Post by: manna on Thu, 16 April 2015, 19:02:45

Is it possible to lube mx switches, without having to desolder or disassemble them?

Title: Re: Lubing cherry mx without disassembling
Post by: hwood34 on Thu, 16 April 2015, 20:05:15

Well all the parts you'd be lubing are inside the housing, so no, not without dissasembly. But if the swiches are PCB mounted to can take off the housing top without desoldering

Title: Re: Lubing cherry mx without disassembling
Post by: alexofthewest on Thu, 16 April 2015, 20:16:10

I think its possible to lub without desoldering however, if you have a PCB mounted board. I think you can just take the top half of the switch off