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Offline Tactile

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Fit of Cherry stabilizer into caps
« on: Mon, 15 August 2016, 12:00:40 »
I just finished assembling a pcb mount GH60. On just about all of the spacebars I have on hand the receptacle for the stabilizer stem is too tight. If I press the spacebar on & try to remove it it pulls the stabilizer out of the pcb.

The stabilizers are Cherry and if I simply take one of the stabilizer stems and press it into the spacebar the fit is much too tight, in some cases requiring a screwdriver to pry the stabilizer stem out of the spacebar receptacle. I have spacebars here from SP, TaiHao, and a few unknown brands, both ABS and PBT.

The stabilizer stems fit properly in the Cherry spacebar from the keyboard I harvested the switches & stabilizers from, and they fit properly in a spacebar from WASD keyboards. In every other spacebar I have the fit is much too tight. If manufacturers are making keycaps for Cherry MX which don't fit properly on genuine Cherry stabilizers, I don't know what to do other than desolder, add a plate, and go with Costar stabs.

I'm out of ideas. Can anyone help?
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Re: Fit of Cherry stabilizer into caps
« Reply #1 on: Tue, 16 August 2016, 06:11:46 »
Lube them?

I have Cherry stabilisers in my Ducky keyboards, and I've tried all sorts of keycaps on them.  None have stuck as you describe.
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Re: Fit of Cherry stabilizer into caps
« Reply #2 on: Tue, 16 August 2016, 07:04:44 »
I think there does exist Cherry-clone stabilisers that are a bit looser. I have a few that are almost unusable with authentic Cherry keycaps.
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