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Offline LivingChampion

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White lithium grease for my squeaky backspace key
« on: Sun, 31 July 2011, 02:41:23 »
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Offline Pnanasnoic

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White lithium grease for my squeaky backspace key
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 31 July 2011, 03:18:15 »
Use a 1/16th of a pinkynail's worth of carmex. It worked for my squeaky Mionix mouse.
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Offline nhwhaup

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White lithium grease for my squeaky backspace key
« Reply #2 on: Sun, 31 July 2011, 06:26:56 »
The carmex for lips?
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Offline Pnanasnoic

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White lithium grease for my squeaky backspace key
« Reply #3 on: Sun, 31 July 2011, 06:52:09 »
Quote from: nhwhaup;390328
The carmex for lips?

 
 The very same. I needed *something*, the squeak was unbearable. It worked like a charm.
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Offline PerfectError

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White lithium grease for my squeaky backspace key
« Reply #4 on: Sun, 31 July 2011, 11:14:46 »
I used paintball gun lube to reduce any squeak and clang on my Filco. I think it was my Shift keys that had a slight squeak when I pressed down on it and any key with a stabilizing  bar had a sort of a jangle soon as you touched it. I put the lube where the bars met the key and the base of the keyboard and now even lightly tapping my large keys feel solid with no sound or play from the metal bar, it feels like any other key with out a stab bar. i used paintball gun lube because i had it off hand but i knew that it wont effect the plastic and it'll work well with metal. Anything thats thick and pasty should do the job.
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Offline Input Nirvana

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White lithium grease for my squeaky backspace key
« Reply #5 on: Sun, 31 July 2011, 11:35:00 »
When I looked under the squeakless keys of the WASD keyboards, they have white lithium grease:

http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?20400-First-WASD-Keyboards-purchase-and-review-on-Geekhack&p=390015&viewfull=1#post390015
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« Reply #6 on: Sun, 31 July 2011, 13:20:40 »
I bought the Permatex. It works perfectly for all my boards.
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