![]() You can remove the stabilizers by pressing on the small tab while simultaneously lifting underneath the stabilizer. Next up, you’ll want to remove the stabilizers. Here’s a tutorial video by Juju on YouTube. If you have a hot-swappable keyboard you can yank them out with a switch puller, if not, you’ll need to de-solder them from the PCB. We removed all of the switches for viewing purposes, but you only need to remove the switches with stabilizers. Next up, you’ll want to take the switches out of the keyboard that have stabilizers. ![]() You can pull the keycaps off with a keycap puller or just your fingers. We recommend removing the keycaps on the stabilizer keys and some of the surrounding keycaps as well to give a little bit of space for working. If you’re building a keyboard from scratch and it’s not assembled yet, you can skip these steps. This includes removing the keycaps and switches on the stabilizers keys and pulling out the stabilizers themselves. Dielectric grease (we bought ours at Home Depot)Īlright, let’s jump into this! Before starting the mods, you’ll need to do a few things to prep your keyboard.Nail clippers, cuticle clippers, or flush cutters.If your keyboard is not hot-swappable, you’ll need some soldering tools to remove the switches on your stabilizer keys. The tools needed will depend slightly on if your keyboard is hot-swappable or not. You’re going to need a few basic tools to get the job done right. Probably because they are the most exciting component, even though they make a huge impact on the typing experience. Most keyboards typically slack when it comes to the stabilizer department, I don’t know why, but most manufacturers just don’t put enough love into making sure their stabilizers are stable, smooth, and sexy. Upgrading your stabilizers is almost as good of an improvement to your keyboard as lubing your switches. But in general, modding stabilizers = GOOD. On a side note, it can be super difficult describing the changes in words, so I’ll have to rely on some bad-sounding adjectives to get the point across. Modding your stabilizers will reduce the rattling, mushiness, and scratchiness of your current stabilizers, which will lead to an big improvement in sound quality and feel of your keyboard. ![]() All you need are a few cheap tools, band-aids, and some generic dielectric grease. I’m sure you’re thinking, this seems like a lot of work, why the heck would I want to spend all this time modding my stabilizers? For starters, modding your stabilizers is one of the best ways to upgrade your mechanical keyboard, and it’s quite cheap to do. We’ll only be going over how to mod the Cherry style stabilizers. We included an image above so you can check which type of stabilizer you have. Costar stabilizers can be a pain in the butt to work with and we generally don’t recommend that you mod them, they are typically found on Razer keyboards. Costars have a hook-in design that hook into the keycaps and clip into the stabilizers. Cherry stabilizers are typically mounted to the plate or PCB on your keyboard by snapping/clipping in, and consist of three main components, the stabilizer housing, insert, and metal bar.Īnother common type of stabilizer is the Costar stabilizer. ![]() We’ll go over how-to mod the Cherry style stabilizers in this article. The most common type of stabilizer is the Cherry style stabilizer, named after how they are shaped similar to a Cherry MX switch stem. With a full-sized keyboard, you can sometimes find stabilizers on the number pad under the zero, enter, and the plus sign. The stabilizers are generally found on the spacebar, shift, and backspace key. They are installed on the larger keys to keep them from wobbling or rattling, so each keystroke can be smooth and consistent. Stabilizers are used on keyboards to, well, stabilize (duh). We’ll go over each mod and walk you through how to do them in a fast and efficient way. These mods will improve sound, feel, and reduce the amount your stabilizers rattle with each keystroke. Modifying your stabilizers with the band-aid, clip, and lube mods will make the biggest improvement for Cherry stabilizers. Whether you’re building a new keyboard or updating an already built one, modifying your stabilizers is one of the best upgrades you can make to a keyboard. We all want to have perfectly stable keys that produce the ideal *thock* sound. There are few things worse than having stabilizers that are wobbly and scratchy.
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