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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

anyway yea i'm doing it wrong

a pad is the exposed copper on a pcb

ah okay.

https://cdn.sparkfun.com/assets/c/2/0/a/f/50d498fcce395f600d000001.jpg

that explains why the solder doesn't stick to the pad

because i am not heating the pad

solder won't stick if it's not hot yeah

only the solder

okay

http://hades.mech.northwestern.edu/images/b/bc/Wireinhole_x.gif

you can put a little bit of solder on the tip to make the heat transfer better

wow that's beautiful

your solder probably has some flux inside of it, which is the white smoke you see

it burns off quite quickly

if you apply it to your iron it burns off before you even get to the joint