Answer:
A mechanical keyboard consists of a case, plate, switches, stabilizers, keycaps, and the pcb. The switches are soldered into the pcb, and are help in place by the plate, the plate is held in by the case. People tend to want to make their keyboards sound and feel better. What they do to achieve this is they lube the switches and stabilizers. The most common keyboard switch and stab lubes are krytox 205g0 and tribosis 103. There are different types of switches there are linear switches, tactile switches, and clicky switches. Linear switches go straight down with no feedback, they just bottom out when you type with them. Tactile switches have a little bump around the halfway point of bottom out which gives you feedback that you have pressed that switch. Clicky switches are the same as tactile switches with the bump but have an added “click bar” this generates a small noise when the switches are actuated. Linear switches and tactile switches are mostly used for typing and can be used for gaming, clicky switches are not usually used for typing and are more used for gaming. and how the switches work is when you press down on them, small metal contacts inside make a circuit when the circuit is made it sends information from the switch to the pbc to the computer.
