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Offline HungerMechanic

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Accidentally removed Cherry stabilizer insert / peg
« on: Thu, 15 August 2019, 17:07:29 »
Okay, so I screwed up. Bigtime.

I was removing the spacebar on my brand new Leopold FC 900, and I accidentally pulled out the left stabilizer insert. The one that hooks in to the metal wire inside the stabilizer housing.

The spacebar was tight, because the keyboard is new, and I wasn't trying to force it or anything, but it pulled the stabilizer insert out of the wire.

I'm not really sure how to get it back in. From an internet search, it appears as if I would have to desolder the spacebar and switches around the spacebar in order to remove the housing. Is this the case?

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Re: Accidentally removed Cherry stabilizer insert / peg
« Reply #1 on: Thu, 15 August 2019, 17:12:23 »
Most of the times it is. But i sometimes managed to go surgery mode with a small piece of of metal and carefully pushed the wire back into stabilizer . But most of the cases you have to desolder the keyboard in order to put it back.
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Re: Accidentally removed Cherry stabilizer insert / peg
« Reply #2 on: Thu, 15 August 2019, 17:23:38 »
I have tweezers, and can pull up the metal wire.

Can you tell me which face of the insert goes 'forward,' and which face hooks onto the wire?

The stabilizer insert has two faces: one with one elongated indent, and one with basically two squares.