A few weeks ago purchased an old portable computer to restore it and convert it into a retro master race pc, but has been all bad luck it arrived wasted in the post and the case required a lot of glue and fixing and other issues.
But to make things worse the keyboard that looked ok resulted in being in very bad shape.
From what I found on the wiki the switches are Alps White SKCL.
Lots of keys have a wrong feeling they take time to move up after being pressed and were bindy, but all of them activated and clicked so the first thought was that some kind of dirt or gunk was in them so I washed the keyboard in hot distilled water using a little detergent and rinsed it well after.
While the keyboard was wet all keys feel ok so I was very happy with the result, but 3 days later when it completely dried up and tested, 80% of the keys feel bindy and will feel wrong when clicking.
In the picture removed the keycaps from the worst-feeling keys but they are even more that feel bad.
Now looked on eBay for replacement switches and they are expensive from my calculations have to purchase like 50 switches to replace the bad-feeling ones and this is expensive!
So looking on the net found some threads that talk about lubrication inside the switches and that by cleaning them remove the lube and make them bindy.
So added white lithium grease to a couple of them and magically they started to work fine!
Before continuing to mess the switches up need to ask what is the issue here and if the lithium grease is the correct "fix" ?.
Any information will be helpful.
