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Offline N8N

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Lubing Cherry stabilizers?
« on: Sun, 13 November 2011, 07:17:14 »
Looks like I'm going to get a load of keycaps dumped on me shortly... am thinking of swapping out the keycaps on my Leopold tenkeyless w/ clears for something with a little more desk bling.  I don't have a problem with the stock caps, I just seem to have overbought on doubleshots, so I might as well use 'em :)  If you care, what I'm thinking of doing is using some Wyse keycaps for the alphas and black Cherry doubleshots for the modifiers for a faux-Dolch look.  I'm really hoping that I can find a space bar to match...  But that's not the reason for this post, I'm just BSing about keyboards.

The question is, the one thing that really DOES bother me about the Leopold is the Cherry stabilizers.  They work; they're easy to deal with; but I can really feel a noticeable difference between them and the Costar stabilizers on all of my other good mechanical keyboards.  I am feeling a lot of friction there and would like to lube them up a bit.  Would you recommend:

1) a PTFE-bearing spray lube
2) white lithium grease (I have both a spray can and also the stuff in a tube that I've been using for my Costar stabilizers)
3) other...?

I did try to search and I saw a couple posts about using white lithium, but would be interested to read how that actually turned out.

thanks for any advice...
Filco Majestouch-2 with Cherry Corp. doubleshot keys - Leopold Tenkeyless Tactile Force with Wyse doubleshots - Silicon Graphics 9500900 - WASD V1 - IBM Model M 52G9658 - Noppoo Choc Pro with Cherry lasered PBT keycaps - Wyse 900866-01 - Cherry G80-8200LPBUS/07 - Dell AT101W - several Cherry G81s (future doubleshot donors) (order of current preference) (dang I have too many keyboards, I really only need two)

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Lubing Cherry stabilizers?
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 13 November 2011, 16:04:06 »
There should be links in that thread as well of what I will be testing soon as well as where you can get the materials.