A challenge: Matias lubricant

[Daniel Beardsmore]

I just took apart a couple of quiet click switches to see how the leaf would work in orange Alps. (Perfectly, and it's much more tactile.)

I noticed that just above the hooks on either side is a small dob of clear lubricant, like fine oil.=

It's no use me trying to get a good photo of that, but someone with real skillz should have a bash. I wonder what effect that actually has, as I don't think that's where the friction lies in those switches.

[XMIT]

I really need to sit down with my macro lens and my calipers one day to get real numbers.

From Akins' Laws, http://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.html:

1. Engineering is done with numbers. Analysis without numbers is only an opinion.

[Daniel Beardsmore]

Oh, I just though it was worth a photo. It just looks like there's water on the tactile leaf.

[Chyros]

I found this while I did one of my Matias videos. Matias confirmed they use a lubricant on their dampened tactile and dampened linear switches (not the click ones). I asked the vice president what it was, but they didn't want to tell me as it's apparently a trade secret (much like how Alps didn't really want to tell me what they used).