All that wasted time wrestling with leaf ping by carefully keeping the leaf and stem legs bone dry. I probably should have noticed that good factory lube jobs put a healthy coat of oil right on the leaf and legs but I didn’t. If you have 105 for springs, put a swipe on the tactile leaf. The tactility remains despite all that wisdom about carefully avoiding the heckin’ leaf and legs!!!1 The leaf ping does not remain. My tactiles don’t magically become linear and my heavy tactiles don’t magically feel like browns. Do the rails with 3203 as normal. If you only have 3203, a very light bit on the leaf is still fine Or just do the whole switch with 105 and lube the whole thing. I feel like a child who has been told that swallowing seeds will make trees grow in your belly, I just believed it. I thought I had to just cope with leaf ping to preserve tactility. It’s not true don’t fall for it. Use a light hand and you can have the best of both worlds
Lube the leaf on your tactiles with 105. If you use 205 on tactiles like a caveman you’re still beyond saving. That’s my rant, ymmv
I just gotta say I still have yet to figure out what so many of you talk about this “ping” that switches supposedly make and I have quite solid hearing at that. But hey, if you like the result power to ya!
i mean, what tactile switches have you tried? leaf ping is pretty unmistakeable. order some T1s and find out lol
My akko silent penguins have leaf ping that I seemingly cant get rid of, lubed the entire switch & it still pings
yeah sometimes physical defects like the leaf being bent can’t really be overcome. with silent switches sometimes the scratching from the silicone can mimic leaf chatter as well. if it is really the leaf you could try carefully doing some 3203 on the front of the leaf and 205 on the back of the leaf. some people even do stab lubes like 206/xdtbhz/dielectric on the back of the leaf (as long as you don’t get it on the front)
tedious though