Thanks for sharing this post. I’ve been wanting to lube my standalone reform keyboard (brown switches) but couldn’t figure out a good way to open the switches while they’re soldered on. The screwdriver trick worked great and a simple application of 205 G0 has pretty much eliminated the ping. In total, it took me about 2 hours to disassemble and lube all of the switches. Recorded a before / after if anyone is curious of the results of just lubing:
One interesting thing, in your pictures I don’t see a metallic stabilizer that was present in all of my switches. Keeping this stabilizer in place while lowering the upper half of the housing back on was quite tricky. I found that pinching the housing so the stem didn’t move worked best until I could seat it onto the lower half of the housing.
Might be useful to have a couple of spare switches handy just in case something goes wrong and you need a replacement part. I had about 3 springs go flying and luckily I was able to find all of them haha.