deskthority

A really quick note to close out my tangent:

I used a q-tip in a drill with some polishing compound to polish the area affected when removing the burr. This was performed on the R-Alt barrel. Initially key feel was almost indistinguishable from the two that had been lubed with a burr for a month ...

After sitting here for three hours rapidly tapping switches taped to my desk I think I would like to hold off on the de-burring operation.

So to re-cap(ha, puns):
L-Ctrl and L-Alt were the first to start fetching up originally. In early January L-Ctrl got silicone and L-Alt got lithium. Once month ...

Oelmuvun, you can really see in your photos the difference before/after with the shadow cast by the burr disappearing.

What method did you use to remove it?
I don't have a huge selection, but the first was done with some dremel bits I had in a set. The pink one is a stone that was rubbed ...

The only hangup I have now is that I don't want to dismantle this thing 15 times, I am in an all-or-nothing mood. The debate is whether I leave near-to-original finish or see if I have something I could use to polish it a bit. They weren't exactly pretty to begin with but if the surface gets taken ...

If you have an XT _and_ AT - you should have enough barrels to rebarrel the F104. You can chop the XT nubs off - they don't really do much if you're hand-assembling the keyboard anyway. Yes, the barrels will be rotated slightly, and it's not what you expect in general by paying $400+ for - but it ...

I actually already started lubing keys on my F104 in early January.
It began with L-Ctrl and L-Alt. Lately I have been noticing letter keys starting to not feel quite right and sometimes very very rarely starting to bind if I hit them too lightly and a slight off-angle. I'm certainly no expert, but ...

My F104 came in yesterday!

Surprisingly the box showed up in pretty reasonable shape externally, I was expecting a lot worse.
Despite two springs being bent over their barrels and one keycap somehow smashed a bit, everything popped together and worked straight away. I didn't have to troubleshoot ...