So my cherry mx blue keyboard started giving me double clicks

>>58598135
Press shift five times.

Try orange juice, the juice's acidity will wash off the sticky vodka residue.

vodka will corrode the metal parts. dont do it again.

>>58598165
Is there anything but spring that can be corroded? Anyway it feels like vodka dried off and something left that makes some keys harder to press. Can I disassemble the switches without unsoldering them?

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Maybe try to use ISO alcohol. You can buy it at the drug store.

As a rule MX keys are not really very durable. Once something stops to feel right you're pretty much fucked.

You can replace the switches, but the cost of MX blues is so high you're usually better off grabbing another keyboard and desoldering the switches. (Or use the new one, and when it craps out you have the old one) Another trick I did was swap some keys with less used keys like the numpad.

I love mx switches but they are horrible for durability. I use a unicomp at home because that's usually where spills happen and I smoke at the computer and ash + mx keys don't fly.

>>58598211
Thanks for the advice, I guess I'll go buy cheap acceptable keyboard until I can sort out this mess. Interestingly after this cleaning I was not able to reproduce double clicks anymore which I could fairly easily before so maybe it is still not fatal.

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>>58598206

you can't dissemble mx switches - well okay you can, but it's going to be really really fucking hard to get them back together.

I would buy some 99% iso alcohol dump it on the keyboard, smash the keys a bunch while using compressed air to try and push any gunk out. Probably will take a few tries.

>>58598135
next time use Acetone.

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>>58598231

I have two razor black widows from back in the day when they were the only brand making MX switch keyboards for under $100.

Those keyboards were complete garbage - both broke in 6 months (switches were fine, probably shitty pcbs, or something) but I do use the switches to replace ones on my filco when they start to crap out.

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>>58598231

Oh and unicomp keyboards are like $80. (unicomp bought out the patents for the model m, and have been reproducing them) https://www.pckeyboard.com/

>>58598235
Thanks, keyboard is unusable now anyway so I'll experiment with alcohol more. Can I try it with plugged in keyboard, assuming nothing gets onto pcb? Just to see if something works before I apply it to every key.

>>58598285
That windows keys near spacebar ruins entire keyboard.

>>58598155
ebin shitpost xxD

>>58598155
Literally made me lol, thanks!

>>58598161
Making little shots of screwdrivers with your keyboard, this is brilliant.