Space Bar clicking and I'm losing my mind

[Stan137]

Hi There,

I'm sorry if this is not the right place for this but I just need some advice. I have a HP CTRL, cheapest but beloved part of my collection. I love using it with MX Zilents except the spacebar won't stop clicking. Mostly on the sides.

I've tried:

• silencing rings
• lubing the stabs with 205
• electrical tape on the back of the space bar
• Changing the switch
• Lubing the stabs with finish line
• covering the stab heads (?) with plumbers tape
• Being upset and giving up only to come back
• Lubing the stabs with dielectric grease

Nothing worked.

Here's a video: https://streamable.com/ihrkzd

Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm losing my mind as the title suggests!

Thanks in advance.

[asianfork]

Try this:

Not sure if you already did it with the plumbers tape, but I think this one is a bit different (put it where the under stem area before the wire contact I think, it's to help rid of the pretravel). It worked out for my friend, and I am yet to try it out. Hope it helps!

[tp4tissue]

use a higher viscosity gel on the stabilizers.

[Stan137]

use a higher viscosity gel on the stabilizers.

Any suggestions?

[lakeboredom]

Are those plate mounted stabs? If they arent tight they might need to be shimmed.

[parablol]

Ok well I had two completely different issues cause strange clicking like that. YMMV

1) On my ErgoDone some of the thumb keys made this noise and it drove me absolutely nuts. Neither lubing different parts of the stabilizer nor the band-aid mod helped. Eventually I realized the Acrylic case was flawed in having too little room between it's inner edges and the outer edges of some keys. In other words, the clicking turned out to be the sound of some keys hitting the acrylic case on the upstroke!

2) I had something really similar affect the spacebar on my Tex Yoda II. At first I tried different lube and silencing approaches, and nothing worked. Eventually I narrowed down the problem to the stabilizer itself. After close inspection, I realized one half of it was GMK and the other half must have been some other type of Cherry-style stabilizer. I re-installed it with both GMK halves and it no longer made that noise.

So maybe check to see if your plates bottom row is too close to the edge, possibly a defect caused by a misaligned jig during the machining process.

Also check if maybe the stabilizer needs replacing.

Good luck!

[Stan137]

Are those plate mounted stabs? If they arent tight they might need to be shimmed.

They are plate mounts. Can be a little more specific as to what needs to be done? Not sure where I'd need to shim.

[Stan137]

Ok well I had two completely different issues cause strange clicking like that. YMMV

1) On my ErgoDone some of the thumb keys made this noise and it drove me absolutely nuts. Neither lubing different parts of the stabilizer nor the band-aid mod helped. Eventually I realized the Acrylic case was flawed in having too little room between it's inner edges and the outer edges of some keys. In other words, the clicking turned out to be the sound of some keys hitting the acrylic case on the upstroke!

2) I had something really similar affect the spacebar on my Tex Yoda II. At first I tried different lube and silencing approaches, and nothing worked. Eventually I narrowed down the problem to the stabilizer itself. After close inspection, I realized one half of it was GMK and the other half must have been some other type of Cherry-style stabilizer. I re-installed it with both GMK halves and it no longer made that noise.

So maybe check to see if your plates bottom row is too close to the edge, possibly a defect caused by a misaligned jig during the machining process.

Also check if maybe the stabilizer needs replacing.

Good luck!

Thanks for the write-up. unfortunately It's not 1 or 2 and I did change the stabs to no avail:(

[lakeboredom]

If they move on the plate it can make noise. You would unclip one side and stick some
Bandaid or tape in there to keep the stab housing from moving. It's either that or the wire rattling, but I'm assuming you've completely filled the slider with lube by this point hah.

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[rewke]

FWIW, I have the same click on my spacebar in my Drop Ctrl HP. Using genuine GMK/Cherry plate mount stabs.

[rewke]

I just spent two hours toying with the spacebar and interestingly enough, the only way I was able to get rid of the click was by going back to the original spacebar stabilizer that came with the HP Ctrl. GMKs clicked not matter what I did.