Hello fellow geeks,
in this topic i will show you how to eliminate pinging sound of a cherry spacebar.
IssueMany of you wondered why a cherry spacebar has such awefull noice if bottomed out. Even by applying band aid mod does not solve this issue.
Causei've done testing before and i did learn what the cause for that are the stability ribs of a cherry spacebar which do smash the top of the switch if bottomed out. Clipping these off will not solve the issue since the switch inside does start to bottom out and it sounds even worse. You may say band aid mod might help but it will not, because put on properly spacebar the stabs will never bottom out. This applies to all keys with stabs (actually every cherry profile key is hitting the top housing of the switch). However its the spacebar which causes so much noice. Thats because of its length which does amplifies the sound.
SolutionThe only ways to eliminate that spacebar sound is to use: Silent switches, QMX Clips/Zilentios or silent rings. Tho those are solutions with some issues. Silent switches are not always the case and QMX Clips or silent rings do reduce the travel distance of the stems and some of you might not like it. I for example want to have full travel distance and for what i suggest to make kind of "silent ring" out of some thin rubber material. That should just soften the collision of the stabillity rib with switch top case.
I find out the easiest way is just to buy a pair of thin rubber glove and make silent ring using a hole puncher. I think a balloon would work too.
But anyway this is what it does:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BkIquxsDjCr/?taken-by=t0mb3ry_ghIts easy and effective.
Thanks for reading