Brand
Chemours
Chemours is an industrial chemical company, and Krytox is its fluorinated lubricant line. Krytox was never designed for keyboards: it is aerospace and vacuum grease that the hobby adopted because it is inert, does not attack plastics and does not migrate. 205g0 is the single most used product in keyboard modification.
| Type | Manufacturer |
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| Country | United States |
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| Also known as | Krytox, DuPont Krytox |
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| Indexed here | 5 entries |
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What to know
- Makes
- Lubes
- Known for
- Krytox 205g0, the default switch and stabilizer grease, and GPL 105, the thin oil used on springs.
- Worth knowing
- Nobody buys it from Chemours. It reaches the hobby through resellers who decant it into small pots, so the price per gram varies enormously and counterfeit repackaging exists.
- Who it suits
- Anyone lubing switches, which in practice means anyone modifying a keyboard at all.
- Availability
- Widely stocked
- Relationships
- Spun out of DuPont, which is why Krytox is sometimes still called DuPont Krytox.
Official site: www.chemours.com
Related brands
- TriboSys · The main alternative lubricant line
Indexed under Chemours
Chemours
Grease
The grease every lubing guide starts with, sold by two of the shops here in small jars decanted from industrial stock. KeebsForAll puts it on linear switches and stabilizers, Mechboards adds Topre and says it will do tactiles too, which is worth reading as a warning: a grease this thick smooths a tactile switch and rounds the bump off in the same pass. Viscosity is blank because neither listing puts a word to it, only relative comparisons to other grades. Price is blank because both shops sell it in more than one size, so no single figure covers a container.
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Chemours
Grease
A thicker grease than 205g0, per the only shop here that stocks it, and aimed first at stabilizers. Thicker means smoother, quieter and more muted, which is what a stabilizer wants and more than most switches do, hence the shop's own instruction not to overlube switches with it. No viscosity word appears on the listing, only that it is the thicker variant of 205g0, so the field is blank. Sold in 3 ml and 5 ml, so there is no single container price to record.
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OilLow viscosity≈ $11
A very low viscosity oil, in the stocking shop's own words, sold for bag lubing springs: a few drops in a bag, shake, and the whole batch is done in minutes instead of one spring at a time. The same listing puts it slightly thicker than GPL 105 and says that makes it usable on housings and stems as well, though an oil on a stem is still the thin end of the axis, less smooth and more defined than any grease. The eleven dollars covers the single 5 ml bottle, the only size listed. No claim about feel or sound appears on the listing, so the effect field is blank.
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Oil≈ $10
An oil rather than a grease, which both shops say plainly, and which decides what it is for: it spreads on its own, reaches where a brush will not, and does not stay on a sliding surface. Springs are the job both listings agree on, with linears second. Thinner lubricant means less smooth, louder and more defined, so this is not a substitute for a grease on a stem. The viscosity field is blank because neither listing characterizes the thickness in words. The ten dollars is KeebsForAll's price for the single 5 ml dropper bottle they sell it in.
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GreaseHigh viscosity
The stabilizer grease, described by both shops in the same terms: peanut butter thick, high viscosity, non-melting. Both sell it decanted by the gram, CannonKeys in 3 g frosted glass jars from an authorized distributor and KeebsForAll in 3 g and 5 g. At this thickness the appeal is damping rather than smoothness, which is why the claims made for it are about rattle rather than feel. Price is blank because the two shops quote different figures for different quantities, and neither is a single container price that stands for the product.
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Details last checked 2026-09-12.
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