How to clean sliding power switch on HP21 Woodstock

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(09-13-2016 07:17 PM)Dave Frederickson Wrote:  The switch should be lubricated in addition to being clean. The preferred lubricant is dielectric grease, like Loctite 37534.

Dave

I applied dialectric grease and it's very happy.

I do wonder how others apply this grease. I also play with old watches, so I have some oilers that I use -- think of a handle with a fine-gauge wire sized to place one tiny drop of oil in a jewel cup. With that I was able to slide some grease in between the PCB and fascia, but it was tedious.

Here's an oiler:


Dave - if you are able to apply grease to these switches without disassembling the keypad, how do you do it?