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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Adewq on Mon, 31 March 2014, 09:25:41

Title: Poker 2 Stabilizers Question
Post by: Adewq on Mon, 31 March 2014, 09:25:41
Hey, I had a quick question. Would it be possible to swap the poker 2 spacebar to using Costar Stabilizers since it is plate mounted. And to swap, would i simply purchase a new stabilizer and just put it in? Thanks! If this would work, I would like to swap the spacebar and shift keys since Costar stabilizers seem to be much smoother to use especially on the longer keys.


Title: Re: Poker 2 Stabilizers Question
Post by: Hyde on Mon, 31 March 2014, 10:45:50
To my understanding, not really unless you owned a custom plate that's designed to fit both.  I think by default the cherry stabilizer "square" is different size than the costar stabilizer "square".

Though I think I started out with costar stabilizer (Filco, Das Keyboard... etc) and I was under the impression that cherry stabilizers are mushy (tried the display demo on Corsair K70 and Logitech G710+).

But to my surprise is that the cherry stabilizers on Poker 2 feels really nice.  People are saying it's because plate mounted ones the side stem mounts don't touch the PCB so you don't feel the "mush".  Though I thought Corsair K70 and G710+ are also plate mounted no?

And to answer the OP's question, I think you're referring to the scratchiness, I believe you can fix this by lubing the side mounting sliders.

:)