Brb. I need to go wash my hands now. Ack.
How many Lysol wipes did that take? Iām going to guess somewhere between 7-8 
oh god, was that in a machine shop or sawdust factory? lol
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Not far off; an industrial printing facility currently undergoing renovation. Paper particulate and concrete dust everywhere. That layer of crud could be ten years worth, or ten days - hard to say. 
Just had my kitchen redone (as well as resanding the entire lower floor of my house). There was 100% this much dust in my entire house. I had my keyboards all in cases and in closed storage inside a room with a sealed off door.
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Part of my company runs a cabinet shop. For years we pleaded with them to put socks over the PCās to keep the sawdust out, but they were worried that they would get ātoo hotā. Like somehow all the sawdust accumulating on the internal components wasnāt a bigger problem.
Iām glad that shop supervisor retired.
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This is bringing back memories of my first full time job. It was at a print shop that produced a certain extremely popular card game that implores you to ācatch āem allā. Because of that, all our scrap had to be securely shredded. The shredding and baling process produced this fine, white dust that got EVERYWHERE. Hopefully that dust is at least temporary!
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Smart move. Not many contractors will do it, but I let my customers know from the door that even though Iāll take every precaution necessary to keep the dust captured. There will still be a good bit that makes it through the house. Even if you close off the duct work to that room, the fine dust will still find a way in.
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Aliexpress photos like those are up there in terms of āhorrorā for me. The razer one might not look that bad, but look howā¦wet those switches are.
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Thatās quite good. Not gonna lie.
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Howdy Hey
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That looks horridly thick. And sticky. What a mess.
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I know thereās at least one factory switch that comes with the whole stem soaked in oil, and thereās at least one person here that bag-lubes their stems. Apparently it hasnāt presented any issues with their keycaps yet.
Iām going to guess that YMMV depending on the caps and stems, but Iāve definitely had oil contamination complicate stabs, when too much gets on the stab stems, which tend to be thinner than switch stems. (Some definitely arenāt; I canāt remember if it was C3 or KBDfans stabs that have stems on the fat sideā¦) Anyway - say all that to say it may not be quite as crazy as it sounds.
Still probably wonāt see me doing it, though - I switch my caps pretty often and I donāt want any oil following them around.
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Technical issues aside, I feel like if youāve already gone through the trouble of disassembling all your switches, youāre not saving that much time by bag lubing vs brush lubing them.
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What I see in that photo is over lubed stems. Itās easy to correct.
It takes me about 5 minutes to fully lube around 100 stems. Iād say it saves at least two hours per board. If you have too much lube as in that photo, you can wipe the container clean and shake again to redistribute.
Iām telling you guys, I have dozens of boards with tub lubed stems. It works very well and Iāve never encountered issues.
Also, I wouldnāt recommend lubing together with springs. Springs tend to gather clumps
Of lube as they roll around in the tub.
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