Lubing switches used to take me all night, now I use a different method

Back in March I hand lubed 90 switches one by one with a brush, took me like 4 hours and my wrist was killing me. Then I watched a build stream where someone used a bag method with Krytox and it was messy but way faster, did another board in 45 minutes. The feel is a little less consistent on the stab housings though, so I went back to brushing the stabs and bagging the linears. Does anyone else mix methods depending on the switch type or am I overthinking this?

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felix_coleman879d ago

Try bag lubing the linears but keep a brush on hand for the stabs, that's basically what I settled on after ruining a set of screw-in stabs with the bag method. The key is getting the bag almost dry and then tossing the switches around for like 30 seconds, not drowning them in grease. Honestly the time save is worth the slight consistency trade-off on the linears, but stabs need that extra attention every time.