Hey all, so the final step in repairing the spil I had is cleaning out under the spacebar and a couple other keys, which became slightly sticky (though the spacebar is ridiculously sticky unless it's in cold temperatures, it's ridiculously difficult to press down, and takes a couple seconds to pop back up.)

Anyways, the set of spudgers I ordered finally came (this gave me an excuce to finally get some instead of using screwdrivers lol) but I'm wondering what direction I should pry the key up from to prevent damaging the mechanism. I'm hoping maybe someone here has done this before, or might have a spare keyboard assembly they can test it out on and tell me which direction is easier to remove the keys from.