Question: Thinking about spray lubing my Steel Series Apex Pro. If I do, will it mess up the Omni point switches?
Is that the one that uses hallway effect (magnets)? Then it should be OK.
I think it’s optoelectric
Last night:
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Making 61 Catweewee Holy Trash Pandas
Halo Clear stems in YOK Trash Panda housings with 52g Catweewee springs -
Making 61 Unholy Gazzew Linears
Silent linear Gazzew stems in Halo housings with YOK Panda springs
Today:
- Installing gaskets in the latter
It would be more simple to just say “Holy Panda” - but not nearly as fun.
Edit: I bet at least one or two of you saw this coming, but those 52g springs weren’t nearly strong enough for the Holy Pandas to operate properly.
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Normally I squirt some gasket maker between two layers of cling film to take up empty space and improve the sound.
Then, as it was drying, I thought, “What the heck am I doing?!” I thought, there has to be a better way like stick on neoprene strips.
Sure enough, I found that exact thing on amazon.
I was inspired by the pad that goes between the plate and PCB on the Cyber Board
I also cut a section of neoprene to go between the case and the PCB
Later some tiny O rings will arrive that I’ll use to act as a buffer between the mounting holes and the pcb.
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I buy sheets of foam at michaels and cut them with scissors for more or less the same purpose as your neoprene
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I use drawer liner when the neoprene foam is too thick.
Damn, great find! I gotta get my hands on some of that!
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How wide is the roll. Better yet, do you have a link to the product that you’d be willing to share?
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It’s twice the width I needed so I just snipped it up the middle with scissors. It’s the right thickness though.
Sponge Neoprene Stripping W/Adhesive 3/8in Wide X 1/8in Thick X 50ft Long https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07PBSBNRM/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_qBirFbPAFVFJB
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Heh. I don’t think I’ll ever stop finding those little guys in random corners of my apartment. I just got proper flush cutters yesterday and up to now have been using nail clippers - so the little bits went flying unpredictably every time.
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Been sitting on this for 2 years decided to build it today since all my soldering stuff is at my moms and I’m over here all day today
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No pictures yet, but this week I have some Novelkeys Dry switches to lube up, and throw on some Deskeys switch films. Pretty excited for this switch combo; and planning to throw both of them into a nice TKL 
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do JWK switches really need films that bad? Kailh seems to have a lock on housing gap with the creams
I’m not terribly bothered by wobble for the most part, and personally I don’t think most switches need films; but I did want to try the new deskeys switch films for the sake of trying them out 
They are quite loose and make a pretty bad rattle on the switch return without films. I haven’t found a JWK made switch yet that didn’t need films.
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