My man! Thank you so much for this video! I have been trying to fix the rattle on my keyboard for 2 weeks now.This video is great! You just got a new sub.
man, you just became my personel keyboard hero! I struggled with rattling spacebar stabilizer on one side for a year, and seemed I could never get it right for it as for other keys, tried different stabs and lube/grease applications. As you showed I put some band aid inside stab's stem where it contacts the wire and its fixed, no more rattle
Usually the primary reason is the wire (or even the keycap) being slightly bent in a wrong way. Balancing the wire helps to find out the almost perfect position when there is a tight contact without any free play inside the stabilizer housing on both sides of the key. Then adding a good amount of thick dielectric grease such as superlube inside the stabilizer housing where it contacts the wire. After this there is usually no need for the holee mod (as it makes the key mushy). The only problem is to learn how to properly balance (bend) the wire. And from my experience the straightened wire is not always the best (depends on the keycap imperfections I guess) which may explain while trying various aftermarket stabilizer options didn't help you resolve the problem (usually they're very straight out of the box). From my experience I needed several attempts to find a slight bending angle that resulted in the perfect tightness on both sides of the key. And a good amount of superlube injected in the parts where the wire contacts the stabilizer housing. After this the keys feels very snappy, no mushiness at all.
I really liked you brought something creative to your video, not easy with all the kbd video out there. Medical tape, that's a first for me and is genius. By just reading the title of the video I was like '' ah, another stabv2 tutorial''.
Thanks, man, appreciate the help. I wasn't liking the double space bar on my new keyboard, so I wanted to switch it out w/ the included single space bar but didn't know how to remove the stabilizers. Yes, I am a complete noob to custom mechanical keyboards.
Probably my favourite youtuber, amazing videos and you've helped me buy my kb and mouse. Keep up the amazing videos dude! Suppper underrated, you deserve way more subs.
Hi im new to the channel and i just want to say your so underrated, i also wanna ask can you do a video on membrane keyboards on how to mod them, GREAT vid keep up the amazing work
I really need help, I have a space bar which sounds perfect on the side which I mostly press and on the over side it is completely garbage. I have swapped the stabilisers, clipped them, see if the wire is bent (it isn’t) and I band aid modded it. I put a lot of lube. Doesn’t work. I can’t think of anything else to do to fix the rattle
Great tutoria! Was able to follow along no problem and my stabs sound way better. For next time, a stem that is not white/clear would probably be easier to see. While the directions were clear, i spent a while squinting to see all these tiny parts!
I know this is old but i am wondering if holee mod is able to get rid of all of the ticking left over after lubing, or if I need to balance the wires. I suck at balancing wires. Also, is it possible for me to use bandaids or not?
I have the same kind of stabilizers in Drevo Calibur. My problem is that switches are non removable. 3 stabilizers are broken and I can not fit new from the top. How to make it easier? I tried go over the top, but on shorter than space bar keys they stuck every time. shall I unscrew the top and go from bottom?
hi i have a question about the keyboard redragon k598-kns. Does this keyboard have hotswap? because i can't find any information about this. Thanks for help
very detailed and beginner friendly but i really dont recommend putting grase on the pcb because thats just going to spread around where tha stabs hit the pcb
hi this is probably a silly question but i am still new to this and would like to know, instead of buying grease, will using lube be ok? Please & thank you
What if my keyboard is not the hot swappable type, mine is cooler master sk620, the backspace stabilizer house is making noise cause its not realy fixed to the case
Usually the primary reason is the wire (or even the keycap) being slightly bent in a wrong way. Balancing the wire helps to find out the almost perfect position when there is a tight contact without any free play inside the stabilizer housing on both sides of the key. Then adding a good amount of thick dielectric grease such as superlube inside the stabilizer housing where it contacts the wire. After this there is usually no need for the holee mod (as it makes the key mushy). The only problem is to learn how to properly balance (bend) the wire. And from my experience the straightened wire is not always the best (depends on the keycap imperfections I guess) which may explain while trying various aftermarket stabilizer options didn't help you resolve the problem (usually they're very straight out of the box). From my experience I needed several attempts to find a slight bending angle that resulted in the perfect tightness on both sides of the key. And a good amount of superlube injected in the parts where the wire contacts the stabilizer housing. After this the keys feels very snappy, no mushiness at all.
YOU FORGOT A MOD! Add small band aids on the clipping part of the plate for the stabs. For these kind of stock boards the housing normaly isn't tight on the board. making it tight with a band aid will improve the stab sound 5x. Hope this helps : ) good vid anyways.
Didn't work, it only changed the one side that was actually working. My space bar after about 2 weeks of owning it the left side of my space bar started rattling and left side only I have done to following: Lubed Clipped Band-aid mod Holee mod Even stabilizer adjustments And it hasn't been fixed yet and my left side has not stopped rattling since that day
You should watch MechTech Keyboards videos, I tried every mod for one of my keyboards and the only mods that worked were the pumblers tape mod and plastic wrap spacebar mod, let me know if I can help
For those who don’t want to watch whole video 1. Buy durock stabilizers its cheap 2. Holee mod the stabs(you can use injury band cut it with scissor 3.lube the pin and plastic parts of stabs 4.assemble the parts thats all it should take around30-45 mins
I think it's cool you're trying to help and all but if I have no idea how to do those steps? You'd still ask questions so why not just watch this video.
grease is more important than the holee mod, the holee mod is only if you want it to be perfect as possible but isn't necessary, the grease is the most important.
Just installed my Akko ocean blues an hour ago from another great video from you. I then wanted to fix my space bar rattle, i did the medical tape and clipped my space bar stabilizers. Now my space bar won't go back up, it stays down. Keyboard is a Redragon K530. Do you have any idea what could've gone wrong?
My stabilizers are so bad, that even after maybe 6 hours of modding, using every single possible stabilizers mod that I can use, they still sound awful, at the point where I rather take them off (except spacebar) so they feel better and sound better, maybe I need to buy some best stabilizers out there
So I performed these mods to my stabilizers and everything came out great, but for some reason one side of my spacebar still sounds a little rattly. The left side sounds great, the right side not so much. Both appear to be identical, anyone have any suggestions?
That could mean that one of your stabilizer bars is bent. Try taking out the metal bar and making it as flat as possible by testing it on something such as your phone screen. Im pretty sure glarces has a video on it, just look it up.
"This one isn't insanely rattly" Man you should listen to mine... I'm so used to it now I didn't hear the slightest rattle from the one in the video (the sound of my SPACE is, ironically, from a different planet). Using a quickfire rapid pro (my first and so far only mechanical keyboard) from 2012, nordic version so the big enter button doesn't sound that nice either, with red switches that I tend to bottom out and spacebar has sounded DISGUSTING from day one. Watching this to learn what to do; maybe it can be fixed. At some point I want to get into building custom keyboards, need time to learn a lot more, and get nicer keys and that "thock" sound people talk about (or just silent reds + maybe o-rings to make it as quiet ap) but for now... Yeah this tutorial will do me very nicely I think. 👍
