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geekhack Community => Keyboard Keycaps => Topic started by: Geroximo on Mon, 21 December 2015, 15:40:25

Title: Spacebar much louder than other keys
Post by: Geroximo on Mon, 21 December 2015, 15:40:25

Hi mates,

Poker 2 with MX Blues
OG Cherry PBT caps, damped case

All the keys make a pretty statisfying deep click, bottoming out makes a deep thock. Everything sounds nice and sophisticated.

But the goddamn spacebar ... this thing sounds just cheap and loud and light and is ratteling like some super cheap china plastic.
I already installed an O ring. But it still sounds cheap.

Is there a way how to silence a spacebar, so that it sounds worthy like all the other keys, and not like a cheap piece of china plastic?

Title: Re: Spacebar much louder than other keys
Post by: Reigning Hell on Mon, 21 December 2015, 15:52:50

I have a poker 2, I know exactly what you mean. Every key sounds fine, even all of the mods; but the spacebar just sounds so clunky.

Title: Re: Spacebar much louder than other keys
Post by: rowdy on Mon, 21 December 2015, 19:49:56

Maybe try putting small squares of plastic over the stabiliser stems (and/or switch) before you install the space bar.   Might make it a bit tighter.

Title: Re: Spacebar much louder than other keys
Post by: ideus on Tue, 22 December 2015, 10:49:57

I silenced mine using an IMSTO ball, you could do the same with a segment of oring, just be sure its diameter goes inside the internal tube of the switch. It works like charm.