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.
This helped me learn how to get in there and clean the stabilizer. A bit of soda was spilled in the KB by my fiance and I didn't even know stabilizers were a thing. Thanks, bud!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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''.
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
I don't get this, why don't these damn keyboard companies do these for us in the factory while they are making these high end keyboards. I have yet to find a stock keyboard that works out of the box and no mod need it.
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
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
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.
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?
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.
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?
This is a good *how*, but what I really miss from videos like this is the *why*. You don't explain the point of anything you do, so in the end I have no clue how to replicate this in my country, where we don't share any of your product names. For example, where does the clicking sound even come from? Why do you put tape *under* the stab mounts? Why do you use "Dielectric Grease" for the wires and keyboard lube for the stems? I have more questions after watching the video than I did coming in.
"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. 👍
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
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?
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
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
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
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
I loved this, just straight to the point fast paced and clear. Well done CTR!
yeah but 8 mins 😂
CTR - *Crash Team Racing* 🗿
That was a big improvement for my keyboard. It used to rattle a lot but now it sounds like a popcorn which is satisfying, thanks for the tutorial bro!
Nice i really do like the way you explain everything so that people can understand
I was coming here to say exactly that!
@@Bhrazz Lol
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.
@@VladK-1thanks for this
Clear and concise! No more rattle on my stabs now!
Would love to see more mod guides like this! Keep it up
Could've put a disclaimer about the holee mod, that some PCBs are tight enough that they don't need to be tape modded and cons of dielectric grease
This helped me learn how to get in there and clean the stabilizer. A bit of soda was spilled in the KB by my fiance and I didn't even know stabilizers were a thing.
Thanks, bud!
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!
Very true about the white material. Pretty much destroys the whole purpose of the video. 😕
Honestly the keyboard tutorials on modding have been fun. Keep up the good work
I think I'm better off with a slight rattle on my spacebar than going through all this😂
once i saw dude putting tape in like a piece of plastic thats smaller than a centimeter i contemplated throwing in the towel
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.
Loved it! This vid is very detailed and def answers most of my curiosity regarding stabs.
What a nice tutorial! Thank you:D
Your the best! You have potential deep inside you! You will become the best of the best tech RUclipsrs, i have faith in you!!
I can’t wait to do this on my first keyboard (getting it for Christmas) I’ve been watching ur videos so much and don’t even have a pc lol
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.
A dedicated video for the stabs?
Absolute legend mate. CTR to the moon
Missing a lot of small info
Love the tutorials. Very thorough!
didnt have dielectric grease so i just used switch lube lol but this fixed my year-old rattly space bar 🙏
I was looking for some tips to lube my rk84 and here you are, thanks for another great video!
Thank you for this great video! However, residual rattle remains. I tried everything: holee mod, stab balancing, etc ...
Omg this helped sooo much tysm ur the best at reviewing modding and helping with keyboards/ mice/headset or mic
Ur vids are always so timely, thanks
So we getting tutorials now! Keep up the work
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.
Does this mod have a specific name?
@@eepengf not sure. It just works really really well. I guess it can be part of the band aid mod family haha
@@eepengf i think its called the holee mod idk
He used medical tape instead of band aid
u should post a vid of it
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 make the the best most helpful and concise videos
damn bro u deserve millions of subs for the quality of your videos
I've bee looking for this mod for a log time. Thank you so much! I will try it out
As soon as you pressed that spacebar, my internet died and it looked like you just paused the video for me lmao xD
thank you this really helped and my spacebar sounds so much better
8/10 for the instructions.
But you get the point across, thanks man i might do this.
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''.
this was the easiest video to follow along. thank you so much!!
so i used blue painters tape and it works verywell and this tatourail is great
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
I don't get this, why don't these damn keyboard companies do these for us in the factory while they are making these high end keyboards. I have yet to find a stock keyboard that works out of the box and no mod need it.
Thanks bro it actually helped so much, sounds so good now
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
Do you think you could do one about gaming chairs? Your videos are really helpful
How do you not have more subs! Your vids are well organised and easy to understand for any beginner.
what is a great alternative for medical tape and electric grease
when you lube it , it will start to deactivate its adhesive of tape . I think so .
Do this twice a week. It’s soooo worth it!
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
Holee mod on the stab stem doesnt work it will definitely fall off over time. Stick the bandaid on the stab wire.
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.
I will just use the paper tape mod method.... Ain't got no time for this
Can you review the new akko cs switches? The jelly black one specifically
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?
im not sure what happened but probably your stab wires are stuck preventing them to go up and down
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.
small issue for me, soldered board with pcb mount stabs (i did make the board myself, but i was too lazy and regret it now)
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?
This is a good *how*, but what I really miss from videos like this is the *why*. You don't explain the point of anything you do, so in the end I have no clue how to replicate this in my country, where we don't share any of your product names.
For example, where does the clicking sound even come from? Why do you put tape *under* the stab mounts? Why do you use "Dielectric Grease" for the wires and keyboard lube for the stems? I have more questions after watching the video than I did coming in.
thank god "how to" is in the title rather than "why"
they should do these mods from the factory
"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. 👍
Is there a substitute for medical tape that you can recommend?
I think any masking or painters tape should work
i did everything and they still rattle, time to get rid of them
Thanks just what I needed!!
I'm hvg such a hard time seeing which part i should clip off. And i'm too scared to clip mine just in case i got the part wrong 😢
Nice keyboard tutorials!
how do you fix spacebar my spacebar because it just stays down
i fixed it i had it backwards
Any English speaking frenchman, or woman, what would "Lube" be translated into in French exactly, when talking about lubing keyboard stabilisers?
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
i got my keyboard with switches off of facebook marketplace and the stabylizers were slimy and when i saw it it was already lubed
If I did all these and my space bar still rattles does that mean it’s not balanced? Sorry completely new to the whole custom keyboard thing 😅
This video is so cool
Is the dielectric grease necessary? Because i have all the rest but not the dielectric grease….
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?
My keyboard isn't hot swap, so uh... unfortunate 😭
what about non hot-swappable?
um the lube is gpl 205g0, not krytox. krytox is more recommended because its more consistent. just a tip.
consumer tech review, sounds like the average amazon review name
Can u make a vid about modding the k617 for beginners hope u see this
Why do you clip the stabs?
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
I have the same stabilizers as that keyboard but when I press the plastic in to get the stabs out it doesn’t come out. Any tips?
Idk man great tutorial but I feel like ding this with white stabs might not have been the best choice
I have preloobed switches do i need to clean them or can i just clean the things where the tape goes
Is the aoc cu34g2x ultra wide better than the LG ultra wide that you review. Please reply?
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
Is the grease necessary or not cause i dont have any grease or lube yet but i do have the tape
what is the name of the "mousepad" he uses?
Out of topic question. Can you use multipurpose grease on your switches and stabs?
It is not recommended to use multipurpose grease either on your switches nor stabs
how your Tweezers 10$ mine just 0.5 dollars in vietnam
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
can i use lube instead of teh greese
damn my keyboard is not hot swappable
is dielectric grease important i dont have any
My solution was to not use the stabilizers. Doesn't work on spacebar tho
Do a review of Gamdias Hermes m6:) i wanted a review of it but literally no one did it till now.
Whats the name of this keyboard that you're modding
so how do I do that on non hot-swappable keyboard?
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
oof i got plate foam and theyre screw on stabs haha this is gonna suck
Dont have lube or a hotswappable keyboard so i cant rly pull this off :(
Hi, I have lubed my stabilizer, no rattle but there is a bit of ticking, how do I fix that?
Holee mod is what you need.
yeah I’m not doin allat
It sounds exactly the same to me 😑😑
trust me, it isn't
@@hastnicke_ it does sound almost the same but i bet it feels slightly better
it still sounds hollow, but not as much rattle as before.
I broke my pcb cuz i pulled the switches out like that
can you use dielectric grease to lube the sliding part of the stabiliser ?
No, too heavy, use Krytox 205g0