Has slots for bottom housings, top housings, stems, and springs
Includes basic tools required for lubing
Looks decent as a decoration piece of some sort
Cons:
Can only hold 10 top housings while holding 28 bottom housings
Can only hold stems without a box around it
Metal feet has no rubber feet on them and they feel cheap
Brushes seem to fray easily
No storage whatsoever for brushes or tweezers
No keycap or switch puller included
Overall:
It's a decent kit to get you started for the price (no lube is included in the kit, however). The brushes work well enough, the tweezers tweeze, and every switch parts are held in one area for easy accessibility. There is no way to keep the brushes or tweezers with the lube station but a cup of some sort should do the trick. This is a good kit to get started with lubing switches.
I wasn't entirely sure what I was getting when I bought this. I'm new to the mechanical keyboard hobby and had to look up what a few of the features of this station were meant to be used for.
After watching a couple of videos and understanding how to use it, this thing is fantastic. If you want to get into lubing switches, I feel like this is a must-have. It has holders for springs, stems, buttons, caps, space for your lube, a keycap opener, and tin for carrying other small items.
TLDR: The base kit has everything you need to begin lubing your switches; the only thing you will need to acquire is the lube of your preference.
Not a ton of experience with others, but happy with this
I would like to give it about, 4.7 stars.
over-all pretty simple set up, easy to use, holds switch housings well.
I think the included tweezers are a little cheap, but work in a pinch. Brushes are decent. I was skeptical about the included switch opener (had already purchased a kbdfans alum opener, same general design), and this one seems to work better than I can get the “”better”” one to work. The tops of the posts that push out the clips on the switch are slightly rounded, instead of a straight cut, and I think that helps greatly in opening the switch (my other one with open one side, but close the other, hard to get both sides unclipped at the same time). This is based off 2 different switches, both mx style, PC housings.
only gripe, as others have said, is the stem holders. It is a pretty precise little cutout, and they definitely aren’t done perfectly. Some were very tight, almost unusable.
was ok after a couple rounds, very very slight trimming around the edges of the cut (like a tiny chamfer) with a hobby knife, and a micro drop of lube to the worst ones.
all in all, happy with it 👍🏼
(Housings are turned 90* from proper positioning in pic. I was experimenting lol)
Lubing switches isnt all that fun especially when everything is everywhere, but with this it makes keeping track of parts more easier and highly recommend if you don’t have a proper set up for lubing switches
So my methods of lubing don't really work with this layout very well.... I will note that the stem holes are not cut properly and don't even fit the stems into. Overall finish quality is nice but doesn't really work for my needs.
There are many lube stations like this one, but this one is mine.
Listen, Jack! One day you're gonna have scratchy keys. It may n0ot happen today and god willing its not tomorrow either, but sooner than later you're gonna need to lube some switches.... So, baby, do we have the product for you! It holds springs! it hold casings! it holds stiff and you can like paint your switches with the greasy greasy lube you sick freak! Comes with some accessories that are nice.
Helps you organize switch parts neatly while modding/lubing them.
Only thing I would change would be to polish the bottom of the metal feet.
Also maybe an instruction manual or a picture with everything labeled, like what's the purpose of two rectangular cutoffs?
Nice to have, but unnecessary and there's definitely more economical options out there
Helps a decent amount with getting through large amounts of switches, and everything's of decent quality. Only notable complaints are the price(it's just a piece of cut acrylic plus some fairly typical tools; there's almost definitely cheaper options out there that fulfill the same purpose) and that there's an unequal amount of holes for switch housings versus stems - don't need to fill them all, obviously, but it's a weird design choice that bugs me.
- Has slots for bottom housings, top housings, stems, and springs
- Includes basic tools required for lubing
- Looks decent as a decoration piece of some sort
Cons:- Can only hold 10 top housings while holding 28 bottom housings
- Can only hold stems without a box around it
- Metal feet has no rubber feet on them and they feel cheap
- Brushes seem to fray easily
- No storage whatsoever for brushes or tweezers
- No keycap or switch puller included
Overall: It's a decent kit to get you started for the price (no lube is included in the kit, however). The brushes work well enough, the tweezers tweeze, and every switch parts are held in one area for easy accessibility. There is no way to keep the brushes or tweezers with the lube station but a cup of some sort should do the trick. This is a good kit to get started with lubing switches.