for my mouse its plug and play (hell they sent extra switches with the mouse)

but in most cases its idiot proof 3 or 2 large pins

even cheap homeburner soldering iron can do em

3

coincidentally some fag in a facebook group fucked it up and burnt off the copper on his pcb

so ... yea he fucked it up

3/10 skills in my book are the people who are soon startting to dip into SMD stuff 1 being total idiot who soldered his first resistor last week and burned it and 10 being the guys who hand-solder finepitch DFN/QFN/WLSCP stuff blindfolded

10 being also those guys who deadbug those same chips

1 is the person who uses a soldering gun and plumbing solder

i'm not sure if a homeburner soldering iron is a good idea either

those are usually not temperature controller

and 500 °C will fuck up your PCB real quick

alternatively you can be like this person

and use a 120V rated iron on 230V

https://i.redd.it/4ym61c9de0231.jpg

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someone just suggested to put on WD40 on the switch

there's also contact spray

@Frederica Bernkastel why on earth you would want to remove water from switch ...

or is this the meme "lubricate your switches to prevent doubleclick"

that

and people think WD40 is lubricant

tho >facebook< why havent you deleted that shit years ago

yes i know

well i'm just gonna try out my mouse for a bit. after opening it up i don't think there's anything wrong apparent

it does lose clicks when dragging sometimes

fuck!!

it does doubleclick lol

time to switch switch then

>It can be fixed by applying a thin layer of epoxy such as gorilla glue to the hammer.

ey i can do this

i'll do this first

yea na fuck that switch is fucked

well, i did it, but i'm pretty bad at soldering

well only way to get better at it = do it more often

i never actually properly learned how, just from doing it very rarely. just heat that lead up and drop it on the pcb awkwardly

(don't do it that way)

heat the pad up

and then apply solder to the pad

i'll watch a video

what's a pad