June 8th, 2014 was when I got my first, (and so far, last) mechanical keyboard. I've put it through a lot of crap. In the first few months, the board had its first defect. The F9 switch sort of became linear, and lost its click. Everything else was working fine, until I got tired of the board wobbling when it the feet were elevated (which is my preferred position). So I made some minor modifications to bottom of the board, and it was fixed. The other day, I spilled about 50mL of soda on the board. I immediately took the board apart, wiped down the plate, the inside and outside of the case, and the PCB (which wasn't easy because of the soldering connections). A day or two later, the S key began to have the same problem as the F9 key. It wasn't clicking anymore, and there was no tactile bump. It was also gummy. So what did I do? I did the worst thing anyone could ever think to do. I got an eyedropper and put a few drops of WATER into the SWITCH. After wiping the switch with tissue paper and plugging the board back in, the S key wasn't gummed up anymore, but still linear. The problem was, it wasn't actuating at all. That was when I realized what I had done. I had put WATER in the switch. My next thought was "put isopropyl alcohol in there." So I did. It dried up the inside of the switch, and the S key actuated again. My keyboard is functional, with the linear problem in F9, S, and as I was typing this, I figured out X, as well. All keys actuate, and that's about it.
