Senses that keyboards engage - what about smell?

Definitely!

Not long ago, I put together this keyboard for a cyclist friend of mine. Instead of using the traditional keyboard lubes, I was inspired by another person who was using gun oil to try something along those lines, but in this case I wanted to use bike lube.

I settled on Tri-Flow Teflon spray to bag-lube the springs. It’s a fairly tenacious but not too thick oil - and I had plenty laying around. Teflon spray lube has a fairly strong smell that’s familiar among many cyclists, even if they don’t use it themselves. When my friend un-boxed his board, he remarked that it “smells like [bike components]!”

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