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Offline Keyboardnoobb

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Is this normal?
« on: Mon, 27 October 2014, 22:39:14 »
Hello everyone. I was taking my spacebar keycap off, and I was wondering if this was normal. I don't really have another keycap puller, so I basically removed the keys around it, and I used the keycap puller on one side and my fingers on the other. I want to make sure that I didn't mess anything up. The little stems on either side of the actual switch are pretty much limp. If I push them down, they stay down, or if I move them to the right/left they do the same. I was wanting to make sure this was normal. It's a ducky shine 3.
Thanks for any answers!
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Offline HPE1000

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Re: Is this normal?
« Reply #1 on: Mon, 27 October 2014, 22:41:56 »
Yeah, all of that is normal. I usually remove the keys next to the spacebar and use both hands to pull the spacebar off since I feel like I have more control that way.
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Offline dorkvader

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Re: Is this normal?
« Reply #2 on: Mon, 27 October 2014, 22:42:49 »
Quote from: Keyboardnoobb on Mon, 27 October 2014, 22:39:14
If I push them down, they stay down, or if I move them to the right/left they do the same. I was wanting to make sure this was normal. It's a ducky shine 3.
Thanks for any answers!
They're supposed to move together like that. It's part of how the stabilizer works.
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Offline Smasher816

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Re: Is this normal?
« Reply #3 on: Mon, 27 October 2014, 22:44:17 »
Yeah its normal. Both sides are connected and stay together to keep the spacebar flat as it moves up and down with the middle switch.
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Offline rowdy

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Re: Is this normal?
« Reply #4 on: Tue, 28 October 2014, 01:17:10 »
As above, yes.

When you push the space bar on, the switch stem, plus the two stabiliser stems, all fit snugly into the holes under the space bar.

So basically it is the spring in the switch that raises the stabiliser bar - the stabilisers don't have any springs in them themselves.
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Offline Keyboardnoobb

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Re: Is this normal?
« Reply #5 on: Tue, 28 October 2014, 04:45:01 »
Thank you so much everyone! I was so afraid because they were so wobbly, maybe I had messed up the stem or something. Thank you!
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