Hey again all. I've been finding that my M102 keyboard's not been working totally awesomely.
When pressing keys, there's an amount of grittiness to the travel, Also, if i hit the key closer to the edge than the center, it will sometimes torque and grab on instead of traveling nicely. Using some extra donor keys on a broken keyboard, I've tried: - dripping isopropyl alcohol onto the white plunger, hoping it would seep in. This kinda worked a little - removing the spider and the dome from the mechanism, then using a q-tip, put some DuPont Teflon Silicone oil on the travel path and on the legs of the spider. This seemed to clean up some of the grittiness, and the plunger did a better job of sliding, but the oil was impossible to keep off of the metal contact pads, and more importantly the rubberized carbon pad in the dome... this sadly increased the resistance of the pad from 100ohm when pressed to 500+ ohms when pressed. Wasn't worth it. - Spraying the travel path with a quick blast of "TV Tuner Cleaner" (Deoxit-like product for cleaning contacts). This was very messy, and kinda blasted outside of the cup. so beware! This made the travel path work perfectly smoothly, didn't affect the resistance once i removed the excess from the pads, and used a rubber dome that wasn't exposed to it. However the torque at the top of the key travel was still there. Does anyone have a solution (cleaning, mechanical modification, etc) for eliminating the keycap torque/binding? I imagine my 102's aren't the only ones with this issue... -s -- Scott Lawrence [email protected]
