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I should get some pictures of pretty much any of the PCs in our woodshop. They refuse to put a filter sock on them because theyāre worried theyāll get ātoo hotā. Iām thinking the 1 CM thick layer of sawdust is probably doing that well enough.
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I eventually gave up on cleaning itā¦the grime was too stuck on the case!
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I justā¦ canāt evenā¦ I died. 
And it never seems to get betterā¦ at any point on the board. Itās like this is the best they could muster after soldering every single joint.
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Oh godā¦how the in the world was this even possible. This is truly horrifying.
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Surely that was done as a joke.
Please, let that be a joke.
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Itās good parody, one way or the other - but given the PCB is covered in memes, Iād like to think the soldering job is one as well. It looks like they pulled the already under-temp iron away with the solder wire still attached, let it cool, and then clipped the wire off higher up for maximum shittiness.
Itā¦ also looks like some of the joints have mutilated Millmax sockets? Maybe thatās some other component - kind of hard to identify with the amorphous blob covering it.
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If it works ā¦ It works 
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Aight, hereās the sauce for yāall
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Is this from Mekka & Symposium? 
So it was not a joke ???
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Sometimes things would make for the best satire, if only they were in jest. This is like the keyboard equivalent of r/nottheonion
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On the one hand, Iām proud of that person for owning up and recognizing the issues. Good on them.
But oh. My. God. The horruh.
How does one even achieve this?!
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I did that to a tip my very first time soldering; I didnāt clean or re-tin often enough for one. It also helps that the tips were cheapos. Havenāt used up a single tip since then, though.
My first restauration job of an IBM Model M blue badge that looked like this:
Also a FC980c that I bought off the market that was very dirty under the keycaps, had lots of hair & nails that grossed me out badlyā¦
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When fibers and flakes compress into cakes 
Too high are the stakes, I hit the brakes 
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Hey at least buckling springs still feel somewhat decent even when theyāre dirty.
Iād take the chance to bolt mod the board if it still serviceable too.
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That restauration was in 2017 and that keyboard is long gone and funded further projects.
It was missing some keycaps and was super dirty, but all keys were working and I cleaned it up really well, converted it to USB and also won a DT novelty buckling spring keycap from deskthority.
I must say the experience brings back nice memories. Hereās how it turned out in the end:
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