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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: aidanmulvenna on Tue, 26 November 2013, 13:03:35
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My spacebar has become very wobbly - as in it will make an annoying sound, even if it was barely touched. This only happens on the right side.
The metal stab spring is very bendy too.
The plastic stabilisers come out if i try to take off the spacebar.
Is it the plastic, metal or cap that is doing this, or a combination?
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Get some teflon/pipe tape and put a small square over stabilizer inserts. If you don't have teflon tape, just use some transparent plastic wrap you get in large rolls for food storage purposes. Insert the covered stabilizer pieces into your spacebar, and they will fit snugly, without fallilng out. It also helps to lubricate the metal stabilizer bar where it inserts into the white insert pieces. You need proper grease for that. I've seen good reviews for MechLube from elitekeyboards.com.
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Yes you want them to fit snug. They are usually too loose on SP keys. I use little squares cut out from my receipts. (thin paper)
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I used little pieces of toilet paper and that worked just fine. Easier to tear little pieces as your going along than to cut up pieces of other types of material, IMO. But really, any sort of thing along these lines will do it for you.
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Where exactly do i put the squares?
Sorry for not understanding.r
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Place them over the open stem hole on the cap, then stick the stabilizer insert into the hole, pushing the squares in with it.
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I've made photographs for this before, here:
http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=47605.msg1015571#msg1015571
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Thank you Photoelectric. I'm borrowing those :D.
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That clears it up, photo.
Thanks again.
I have stashed that on opera.
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I've also added it to Simple Questions Simple Answers (http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=40501.0#post_YY).
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Nice. (I am a man of few words).
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Personally I found teflon tape too thin and fiddly.
A 1cm square of plastic ziplock bag worked wonders for me.
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I used blu-tac . A bit permanent but get the job does well