How To ACTUALLY Fix Ticking Spacebars! 

The Mason Mod

This is great! Thank you for the credit too ❤️ I’m definitely gonna try these out on my stabilisers soon :)

We seriously need some stab innovation. Or just a whole new reinvention of stabilizers. It's the single most worst aspect of the keyboard building process.

Kudos on inventing your own mod and giving so many other people credit along the way brother! Lovely watch

you really saved myself from a self destructive state of trying to figure to get rid of the rattle. I've finally achieved a perfect spacebar. thank you

Great video. A lot of people don’t realize that overtime, lube (especially 205g0) will slowly start to move down and collect under wire which will eventually leave nothing to dampen the wire slamming into the top of the housing and ticking which is why the holee or epsi mod are 100% worth it the trouble imo.

Haven’t tried but I can feel this could be the end of my struggling with stab mod. Thank you so much !!!

Thanks for making this video! It was clear, concise and well researched and will be trying this out today.

BRO. I THOUGHT MY STABS WERE TICKING, its my NAILS LMAOOO

So far this fix has worked for Akko screw-in stabs and the ticking is no more on my spacebar! I noticed that the holee mod was looked down on by a lot of people and even I was thinking that my spacebar would get all mushy and inconsistent. I guess I used a thin enough bandaid because I am not getting any of those issues! Hopefully your fix lasts for a long time, thank you so much!!!

I hadn't considered the wire might not be resting evenly on both clips... it makes sense now. Great video!

worked like a charm for me. Thanks so much for this!❤️

Thank you so much for this video! I can't emphasize enough how much I hate tuning stabilizers. I tried out the holee mod, thinking it would fix all my problems (which it did), but I ended up doing it only on my spacebar because it's so damn difficult to do. The results were good, but nothing amazing. After finding this video, I paired your mod with the shrink wrap mod and my problems were instantly gone. It yielded the exact same results as the holee mod with less trouble. Really can't thank you enough.

As someone who is literally about to tear their board apart and mod it completely for the first time I'm really glad this came to my recommendations. This is my first board and if it sounds as good as I'm hoping I think I'm going to be in trouble...

Dude thank you this tick has been annoying me for over a year now and its finally gone you are amazing

i have needed a solution to this for a long time, very happy to finally see this

so educational and inspiring. i genuinely feel like i can mod my own keyboard and can't wait for more vids soon

oh, thank god, someone finally finds the right answer to this question, my right shift and backspace has this problem and it's irritating me. thank you so much!

this is very brilliant as u have make some research and come up the best solution for the specific problems....THUMBS UPP

THANK YOU SO MUCH! You deserve a million more subscribers for helping us fix this LOL My spacebar has been driving me CRAZY with all the ticking and this fixed it so well! ❤

I'm pretty sure that this video will be viral. Thank you for this tutorial!

Thanks for this, the pad under the spacebar didn't actually stop my ticking but made me go back and look at my spacebar. The actual cause was that the stab screws weren't tight enough, just an ever so slight amount of slack caused some real bad ticking

this is underated. it works for me! appreciate it. gonna share this video really quick :D

Oh my god thank you so much for this! I just got a new SILENT keyboard but the space bar had this absolutely atrocious ticking sound... and thanks to this I was able to fix it!! Thank you!

Thanks for the video, I ran into this issue tonight, and man it was driving me nuts! now my stabs are as quiet as my switches :)

This has got to be the most life saving video of all time I have been fucking around with my GMMK pro for the last 2 months trying to do things to fix the stabs, ordered a new set of durock v2s and then did all of this and now I have no rattle, granted I didn't have any 205g0 and had to use dielectric grease very lightly it still has not rattle and it makes me feel a lot better about this purchase thank you!!!!

Very good job mate, I will use this method.

man, idk how to thank you. i tried EVERYTHING. and this simple mod that takes like 2 minutes to do solved all my problems.

thank you man. This video has so much value.

I have this and always thought it was me doing a poor job lubing. I will try this out, Thanks in advance

since i always do some wire balancing on my stabs, ive actually never ran into the ticking problem, but very well done video explaining the solution!

Really interesting way to fix the age-old problem of ticking! Wish I found this before I committed to wire balancing everything. The video was really well-thought out and explained very thoroughly, although I felt like it would've been nice if you had explained what putting the cotton/band-aid under the wire was supposed to do (around the 1:50 mark) - I assume it balances the wire in the sense where both sides are now essentially "raised"? Overall I think it's a solid mod especially for people who are just getting into the hobby or like you said, don't want to deal with wire balancing or spend more $$$ but also for people already in the hobby who just want extra assurance that their stabs won't make any unnecessary noises. Cheers!

I didn't have enough fabric bandaid and dont know why I didn't go with the plastic ones but I gave double side tape a shot and it works. I left the top cover of course but my spacebar is rattle free now. Thank you!

My space bar is so smooth now, thx a lot for this! 3h of my life well spent.

legendary video. spent a bunch of money on a new keeb and my spacebar sounded terrible, after this video my spacebar sounds absolutely perfect. no rattle or ticking

Actually an absolute unit of a person. Big, big appreciation, man. Keep the grind!

Can't wait to give this a shot!!!

I just want to say thank you x1000000000. You saved me from insanity. This worked for me. Ultimately it was the bandaid under the spacebar stabs that did it for me.

You sire, are an absolute god for posting this.

I needed this video today. Thank you RU-vid algorithm for showing me this video!

dude thank you so much, this helped me so much my stabs sound so good now

Thanks for the video! Spacebar ticking was driving me insane, and I haven't found any posts or videos diving deep into the issue. I managed to fix my spacebar with wire balancing, but still it was quite hard to balance precisely, I just got lucky at some point with a good enough bend. But rest of my stabs were still ticking, so I decided to try your method + holee mod, and it did solve the issue for all the keys! The stabs do feel rather stiff though - I'll have to see if they become better after some break-in period.

Short effective video. Thanks for good work

Nice save life time for those trail & error steps :) thanks man !

You're a god. I faced the problem myself and waited 3 months for GMK to send over a single cap.

This video saved my keyboard from going into the wall 😅 Thank you, man!

Just changing to tx stabs in my kbd67 lite just elevated it to a whole new level for me

This is fantastic. Thank you!

this helped a great deal on backspace, shifts, and enter. i put two such pads under the spacebar wire but the spacebar feels a little bit mushy now. not NEARLY as bad as the holee mod makes it feel, so i'll take it.

thank god this video exist im so annoyed by the rattle sound and i dont know how to fix cause my stablelizer is straight but i still have the rattle sound and then after watching this video it really help a lot

I use costar type stabs in most of my keyboards, and I think the First part Will be enought to help me (no holee mod needed, thankfully). Thanks a lot, I'll try and after that I'll share the results here.

For the past few weeks I've been trying to fix my rattling space bar noise but nothing worked. So I figured out since I can't do a 3ildcat styled metal bar stabilizing, I decided to give this tutorial a shot. Although both Hamaji Neo and this tutorial didn't helped much, the methods reduced the noise by at least 60%. Finally what worked for me was to shaft a lot of little pieces of band aids underneath the housing of both stabilizers, and it finally cured my keyboard cancer. Although it reduced the thocckiness of the spacebar, but darn I'm so happy now that I don't have to live with life-triggering OCD. Big thanks to you and Hamaji for the tutorial! (Update: Few days later, the issue resurfaced. And guess what? Turns out it was an unknown issue with my switches. I feel like killing myself even though the issue is finally resolved.)

Holy shoot, I was finding a video what exactly is like this, man I love this video and thank you so much for fixing my stabilizers

very comprehensive i love it

Oh man, this is a godsent. I didn't know that it was ticking instead of rattle. I literally stopped using my keyboard because the ticking drives me nuts. I'm not sure if it's the first or second kind. I think it's the first. But I guess I'll have to open this thing up now anyway

Using this mod all my stabs and on my it’s a blessing. Used the epsi mod instead of the holee since it was too mushy for me

I just want to say the intro sounded too good to be to true-- even started disassembling my board before the vid was over! I legit tried every mod (like you mention) that came up in a search. But, my goodness, thank you so much for this. This mod, with lubing and holee mod, has eradicated my spacebar ticking (I've been suffering for like 8+ months)! It isn't a surefire fix though, as my enter key still has some minor ticking, but that's probably due to some other reason. My spacebar troubles are gone

Cannot wait to try this. Should be same deal on plate mounted stabs right?

thanks Luke, honestly appreciate this video :)

I've spent way too long fiddling with the stabs/spacebar trying to remove the tick on my Alt Drop. Because of this video I can finally give my OCD a break because it's perfect now. Thank you for making this video!

exactly . THIS is the ticking what I wanted to know. Thanks

I bought a pack of Command Poster Strips (the white padded looking ones) and did this. I like it a little more than the bandaids because they Adhesive is on both sides, The padding is the perfect height, and one strip can can be used on every stabilizer on the board.

THX SOO MUCH BRO IT WORKS ON MEE :DDD KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!

ive actually tried all this method but for me, the easiest way was to insert small piece of deskey film leftover in one side of the stem inside the keycap. its really simples and effective. once i want to sell the keycaps, I just take it out with tweezers and its done

The other thing that I find helps (and has helped other people) is to hold up the stab with a toothpick when attaching the key. Then press down on the other side of the stab rather than pressing in the middle over the switch. This seems to help it balance and not "tick" when you touch the keycap. This is particularly effective for the spacebar, that tends to suffer it the worst.

Thanks for the tips, I used the holee mod, because the band aid to the pcb was not possible, since my stabs dont fix on the pcb and I found that the ticks were coming from the bar hitting the plastic. Spent half my afternoon doing it mas it was worth it

Worked like magic mate

I think this what I need to do to my NJ80, I tried doing the holee mod but I must have been messing it up because the stabs kept bottoming out on my durock v2 stabs for my space bar. I get the ticking sound only on the left side of my space bar, I don't notice when I'm typing all that much since I press it down with my right hand and not my left, but I definitely notice it when gaming. Def going to give this a try, thanks for the awesome video, I'll let you know if this helps and if it does then everyone needs to check out your channel because you seem pretty awesome!

Thank you so much my space bar had been ticking for a long time and this worked

3:00 I am actually in love with the way your keyboard sounds and it keeps coming back to me may i please know your build specs or ANYTHING I found my dream clackk

adding some dialetric grease helped a ton and actually got rid of it, but kept comming back. Add more, came back, add more... oh crap now my stabs are slow. So now I'll have to take it all apart to remove and clean the stabs, so I hope to try this and see how it goes. I saw some negatives for the holee mod saying it can come loose easy so its not a good long term solution, so I would probably try the pipe thread tape instead.

Damn i didn't think this would work, but it definitely did. I liked and subbed :)

wowwww great explanation !

Nice. I'm definitely gonna try this out. My spacebar rattles like no other.

This helped so much thank you!

When I first got into the hobby, I had picked up a Corsair K70 with the most disgusting stabilizers I'd known (until I got a Massdrop CTRL lolol). My solution at the time was to pinch off tiny tufts of loosely formed foam (bigger air pockets and less dense) and center that over the ends of each bar to cushion it from impacting any plastic. It made a world of difference and didn't change the feel as long as I didn't use too much. It stiffened the spacebar up a tad so it wouldn't wobble and smoothed out the downstroke, so I'm really surprised nothing that follows that same principal is a thing I've seen done by anyone else.

this man needs more subscribers

I've built a few keyboards and here are some of my experiences: 1) you can apply MULTIPLE layers of holeemod. it doesn't have to be only one layer. personally, I feel two layers of holee mod is the max limit. anything above that you'll find the wire get's stuck and the stab won't come up 2) most of the rattling stabs I've encountered are caused by bent wire. after straighten out the wire I was able to completely get rid of the rattles. The methods introduced in the video won't work if your wire is greatly bent. (by greatly I mean 1 - 2mm off of the surface) 3) Sometimes stab rattles can solely be eliminated by adding excessive amount of lube. (by excessive I mean more than normal but not over lubed). 4) lastly, modify stabs takes time and patience. When I was building my space 65, I spent 3 hours on straightening out a SINGLE stab wire... and yes, do use cushioning between the pliers otherwise it will chip the surface of the stab wires, This gets worse with holeemod since the chipped part doesn't glide smoothly anymore and it gets stuck on the bandit... '

Hey now I have something to use all those leftover band-aid middles for now! Seriously though thank you for making this video.

i cant believe i just fixed 3 ticking keys with a bandaid….. great content!

just did your mod + holee mod on my GMMK Compact (actually pretty hard to do since the stabs are plate mount and not PCB screwed, so you have to have some very small pliers on hand to get it under the plate), and it completely fixed my spacebar which was ticking like hell ! thank you for this video !

Excellent video.

Amazing mod, hopefully can do a modified version of this on an already soldered board

Fixed it for me first try. Thanks!

Give this man a noble I was about to pay 20 bucks on new stabilizers or gonna return my new keyboard but it took me 1 hour of work and now it is sounding like a 200 buck keyboard 👍❤️

One of the fixes i found personally, was to put bandaids inside the holes of the keycaps. In my case, the rattling was being caused by keycaps going down too deep and forcing the stabs to go up too much

I had a ticking semi-mechanical keyboard, this video may be nice for they new owners. Also, good work Luke!

luke!!!!! what’s good i haven’t seen u in forever

I come here a year later to thank you for this video. I got another keyboard and the Spacebar and Enter keys were ticking. Now they are functioning just right.

Thanks a bunch my guy. Imma try this out.

I will definitely try out the Mason mod the next time I fiddle around with my stabilizers. They have yet to be perfected. However, I would like to advise against using the Holee mod in some instances due to (in my experience) stabilizers becoming either too mushy or scratchy in sound. Obviously, bandaid varieties decide what a stabilizer will feel and sound like. I suppose the ones I've tried just haven't really worked that well.

I've been looking for the solution to this for months, I'm losing my mind trying to figure out where's the ticking coming from and nothing helped. Thanks for the explanation and solution!

thats really helpful! earned a sub :)

Great video hated the ticking on my keyboard.

Thank you for this video! I have this exact problem. After spending hours and hours modding, lubing, researching and spending close to $1,000 on different keyboard builds in search for a truly rattle and tick free space bar, I finally gave up. I holee modded every stab and lubed and still get small ticks and rattle on my space bar. I finally had the realization that I have spent 20+ hours working on this to get the same infuriating result. I realized I spend more time building keyboards than I do using my pc or gaming which is the whole reason I wanted to build a custom keyboard with lubed switches. I went back to my old stock G915 and Ducky one 2 mini and started gaming again. Life is now less stressful and I actually spend time using my pc instead of obsessing over some rattle in my keyboard. The reality is, you use headphones so you really don’t hear your keyboard anyway so just use a stock prebuilt board. It will save you thousands of dollars and hours of frustration.

This works for mine! Thanks a lot

Nice video brooo!

Thanks for this, glad i found it

great one, thank you

great video!