This helped a lot! thank you for the comprehensive demonstration of how to fix your PBT spacebar. The warped bar in this video is pretty crazy, but you'd be surprised just how minuscule a warp (mine was maybe half a millimetre) can impact your stabilizers!
Thank you so much for this! My spacebar was just ever so slightly warped but I didn't think much of it. Turns out this is the cause of a lot of rattle and my stab hiting the PCB (it was an arch warp so the sides are lower than the switch in the middle). The bend was less than half a mm but what a difference it made! Now my spacebar sounds thocky and deep with no rattle or ticking whatsoever.
tips from my experience: if you move around the spacebar on the hot water, the spacebar will warm much faster, and you won't have to wait that for it to be bendable. don't apply more than your fingers strength, if you don't want to snap it. specially with bad abs spacebars. see how much force he applied on the video, and don't overdo it. I snapped the lateral of mine. Luckily, it didn't snap into two pieces, and it still is usable. Never apply too much force. If it doesn't unbends, try warming it again, and bending it onto the right direction for longer.
Hello! My 8 year old son has a keyboard that he bought from Goodwill (Gateway KB-0401) and he has the same exact issue and this tutorial made me say "COLOR ME IMPRESSED!!" You have the most wonderful 11/10 tutorial vids
Thank you so much, my 7u spacebar came with really bad warping, although it didn't completely remove it, it greatly reduced the warping so it not fits onto my stabs! Thanks!
i just did it with my spacebar, it came really bend, im surprised it is a gmk. after this fix, it is much much better, almost straight, but good enough. i am afraid too much back bending might expand the space bar side ways, if that happens, that will be super hard to fix.
Does this take a few attempts if it's spacebars from different places made of pbt? Or am I using water below the temperature i need if it's not working in one shot
only with PBT, you'll need "just" boiled water and it won't need to be in there too long. The purpose is to soften the plastic so you can straighten it out before it hardens again.
Could you explain what you mean with the mechanical windows 10 pro spacebar? Keycaps on your keycap are made of a certain plastic, it's either ABS or PBT. If you know it is PBT you can follow along with this video :)
@@Elvanos All plastics become soft when exposed to heat. PBT has a higher temp resistance than ABS. You want to make the spacebar soft so it bends and cools in straight position. ABS does not crack and shatter.
If it's PBT - You need to have boiled water, doesn't need to be boiling while doing it, just off boiled is good enough. beware the longer you keep it in, the softer the plastic, the easier it is to bend things including thing you don't want to bend such as the stem mount
