Vacuuming out Alps Switches?
Posted: 26 Sep 2020, 05:03
Hey everyone, first post here- long time reader of the wonderful insights and amazing boards posted.
I've been pondering an idea for quick- not 100% restoration- of some alps orange/salmon boards. I'm interested in not taking evey switch apart to save time. I have a fairly powerful handheld vaccumm & im working on making a very small nozzle for the end of it that could sit right over the center stem/ hole in a switch and (hopefully) suction all of the dust out. Very high air pressure would flow through the switch I believe. (I would remove/ clean back plate/pcb before vaccuming switrches to prevent pulling more dirt in.)
My worry is: 1) Removing all the dried lube. These are ~7/10 switrhes could I be makiing them worse? 2) This idea just being otherwise dumb =)
Background: I have been trying to restore a small collection of Apple M0116's - giving them to family memebrs as presents. As much as I'd like to do a 100% perfect job, my free time is limited. Looking for a way to efficiently clean out switches without having to open each one.
I've been pondering an idea for quick- not 100% restoration- of some alps orange/salmon boards. I'm interested in not taking evey switch apart to save time. I have a fairly powerful handheld vaccumm & im working on making a very small nozzle for the end of it that could sit right over the center stem/ hole in a switch and (hopefully) suction all of the dust out. Very high air pressure would flow through the switch I believe. (I would remove/ clean back plate/pcb before vaccuming switrches to prevent pulling more dirt in.)
My worry is: 1) Removing all the dried lube. These are ~7/10 switrhes could I be makiing them worse? 2) This idea just being otherwise dumb =)
Background: I have been trying to restore a small collection of Apple M0116's - giving them to family memebrs as presents. As much as I'd like to do a 100% perfect job, my free time is limited. Looking for a way to efficiently clean out switches without having to open each one.