Opening Newer Cherry MX Switch

[KaizenFury]

Hey guys,

I just purchase the Ducky Shine III, and was trying to grease a switch and stabilizer out of a stiff key.  It seems like they use a newer type of cherry switch that doesn't open by pushing out from the four corners.  Instead, it has two tabs on the lower housing on opposite sides that you can press.  I tried lifting the top half of the switch while pressing on these two tabs, but the switch only partially opens.  What am I doing wrong?

[CPTBadAss]

Huh? I can open my switches in both manners. I don't understand the issues you're having. Did you pry the four tabs open? There's two on each side.

[Larken]

my guess is that you tried to open the switches without desoldering the switch. plate mounted boards like the ducky require the switch to be desoldered before you can remove the top half of the switch.

[KaizenFury]

my guess is that you tried to open the switches without desoldering the switch. plate mounted boards like the ducky require the switch to be desoldered before you can remove the top half of the switch.

Can anyone confirm this? I thought the Shine III was PCB mounted.  I have half of the top open, but the other side wont budge

[esoomenona]

Definitely plate mounted. Larken is correct.

[CPTBadAss]

You can easily tell yourself or if you show us a picture we can tell you. Are you switches stuck into a piece of metal or a board that is like your motherboard?

Piece of metal = Plate mounted
Board = PCB

More than likely its plate mounted and you need to desolder it. From you picture in the OP, it looked like you had desoldered the switches already...

[KaizenFury]

Oh sorry, I just posted the pic to help illustrate the tabs I was talking about.  So I cannot open the top half of my switches?...that's not very user friendly

[esoomenona]

Oh sorry, I just posted the pic to help illustrate the tabs I was talking about.  So I cannot open the top half of my switches?...that's not very user friendly

They're not meant to be. That's why they sell many different versions. It's not about being user-friendly. It's about protecting their own ass. If you opened up the switches, and bent a contact out of shape to where it didn't work anymore, you'd likely try to RMA it, thus costing them money.

[KaizenFury]

Luckily everything popped back into place. Lesson learn.  Is there someway I could access the stabilzers to grease them?

[CPTBadAss]

Since you didn't bother to answer or post a picture, we'll assume you have a plate mounted board. You need to desolder everything in order to access the stabilizers.