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Offline ribozyme

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Cherry stabilizer troubles
« on: Thu, 06 August 2015, 06:23:45 »
Hello everyone,

I have a ducky mini with mx reds and I quite like to type on it! However, the backspace key really is getting on my nerves. I have o-ringed the board with red 40A-L. It feels really soft and nice to type when you are in the flow of things, but being cherry red and I am not the most accurate of typists I make quite a lot of mistakes. This obliges me to use the backspace key an awful lot more than I would like. The backspace really rattles with an awfully high pitch when pressed left of the center(which is where I always press automatically). It really takes me out of the flow of typing and it really takes away a lot of the pleasure of typing on the board. The left shift and enter keys also have a slight tendency towards rattling but not nearly as bad as the backspace key. In fact it buggers me so much that I am now using the backspace key naked without a keycap. Unfortunately it is not very easy to aim exactly for the switch when typing and also the keys around which lie higher obstructing the access to it a bit.

So is there any way to fix it? I heard the stabilizers on ducky mini are notorious for being 'mushy', is that the problem I am dealing with here?
I have made a video demonstrating the irritating sound:

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Any help is appreciated.

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Re: Cherry stabilizer troubles
« Reply #1 on: Fri, 07 August 2015, 05:49:41 »
I've heard that putting a small (~1cm) square of thin plastic, say from a ziplock bag or plastic shopping bag) over the switch before you put the keycap on, so that the bag is squashed into the keycap stem by the switch, may help.
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Re: Cherry stabilizer troubles
« Reply #2 on: Fri, 07 August 2015, 06:10:40 »
Unfortunately this happens quite a bit. You can try lubing the stabs or as rowdy said adding a square of plastic wrap to see if its a cap looseness problem ? Good luck and keep us update !
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Re: Cherry stabilizer troubles
« Reply #3 on: Fri, 07 August 2015, 19:54:53 »
Or you could just increase your typing accuracy so you don't have to hit backspace anymore. :D


Offline ribozyme

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Re: Cherry stabilizer troubles
« Reply #4 on: Sat, 08 August 2015, 09:35:39 »
Unfortunately this happens quite a bit. You can try lubing the stabs or as rowdy said adding a square of plastic wrap to see if its a cap looseness problem ? Good luck and keep us update !

Thanks for the help everyone. I haven't tried the piece of plastic yet but I will and let you guys know how it went. I sent a message to the seller and is willing to give me 50% off on my next purchase, which is very nice! Hearing this is common complaint, can I expect this to happen again with the KUL-es 87 with mx blacks I am about to buy?

I honestly wished they were still selling the quickfire rapid with mx black where I live... Now cooler master doesn't even sell a TKL with blacks anymore over here. Hoping that the stabiliser issue is somewhat less with mx blacks and on the KUL. Didn't have any problems with a ducky shine 3 with mx browns previously. I'll keep this up to date if I find a fix.