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How to assemble a mechanical keyboard stabilizer (simple)
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Күн бұрынGetting the stabilizers (or stabs) assembled can feel kinda daunting. Watch this tutorial about how to assemble the stabs and where to lubricate them simply, so you can complete your keyboard kit.
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@vancampen1 5 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Was totally lost before watching this vid
@tehsnek3417 2 жыл бұрын
Literally one of the most helpful explanation of stabilizers installation
@skiwithpete 2 жыл бұрын
thanks!
@Meilongification 2 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU. I clipped in all my stabs backwards until I saw your video, the hotel and ground floor analogy was so helpful!
@CYMotorsport Жыл бұрын
ps I've been using your nomenclature for years now haha ppl think I'm crazy but it always blows their mind how logical it is
@JaseHadd 3 жыл бұрын
This helped me put back together my keyboard stabilisers! Thank you!
@AdaMichelleYoo 2 ай бұрын
Thank you so much! I am a total amateur and I was lost, but thanks to you, I know how to install stabilisers now. I like how you make everything simple and easy to understand..the hotel and ground floor analogy is brilliant =)
@skiwithpete 2 ай бұрын
:) thanks for commenting. Warms my heart that my time was useful.
@IDontTalkToCops 2 жыл бұрын
This video was the most helpful for keyboard mod newbs like myself that I’ve found. Thanks so much!
@skiwithpete 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks, that's awesome.
@jongsong86 4 жыл бұрын
The hotel/ground floor analogy helped a bunch, thank you!
@homy2795 3 жыл бұрын
OMG THANKS YOU SAVED MY AFTERNOON I had big trouble with the area "hotel..." THANK U SO MUCH
@ziek7320 3 жыл бұрын
This video helped me fix my stuck stabilizers! Thank you so much.
@swole3373 Жыл бұрын
Thank you! was totally lost both before and after this vid
@skiwithpete Жыл бұрын
Y'all need a GPS not a keyboard.
@Golf255 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much! You helped me build my first keyboard today. Keep up the great work!
@megancooper3241 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for showing the bottom of the stabilizer. Got my keyboard done this morning and everything had actuation but all my stab switches where hard to press. Now I know why. Thank you!! Great tutorial.
@mattisbodtker 3 жыл бұрын
You just helped me fix stuck stabs! Thank you! 😁🙏🏻
@mantallyunavailable21 2 жыл бұрын
thanks helped alot
@Schillysrh 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this video!! Assembling my first keyboard and was so lost on the stabilizers 😅
@petergosselin1180 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the comment. Made my day!
@en3rgy187 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks buddy, you really look familiar to me. I just can't place where I've seen you before. Anyway, thanks again. I just bought the GMMK Pro and some NK stabs. Put everything together (1st time ever) and they aren't perfect. These people who make these stabs should have simple to follow instructions.
@jonathanpugha 2 жыл бұрын
bro thank you so much my space bar wouldn't work I was about to quit PC gaming but cause of you I'm still PC gaming God bless
@aero2621 3 жыл бұрын
I'm just starting to make keyboards and this really helped!
@skiwithpete 3 жыл бұрын
I've made quite a lot of keyboard videos. Check them out
@FumiDoku Жыл бұрын
"on the hotel on ground floor" damn i didnt think i would be treated like a child again but thank you
@petergosselin1180 Жыл бұрын
No problemo little buddie ;)
@maxmcdermitt1504 4 жыл бұрын
This was very helpful. Thank you very much for the analogy of the hotel. Very good idea with that. Thanks!
@Johnny555_Arcaea_charter Жыл бұрын
I have the SteelSeries Apex Pro and the two stabs came out making it unfixable since I don't have the guts to disassemble the entire keyboard 😭
@duckychu2144 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so so so much! I was messing arrond with ym stabs and dissasembled them this vid was a life saver
@numberonemorbiusfan9325 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much i was inserting the hotel floors wrong and the spacebar wouldn’t move thanks a bunch!!
@Cal-G 3 жыл бұрын
How did you fix it
@clonetrooperz4431 3 жыл бұрын
thx for making this vid i was so panicked cuz by stabs got stuck
@shalinmehta7819 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much man this helped a lot
@trentonmoonias239 3 жыл бұрын
Your hotel/back door thing is where I was like ohhhhhh
@jilla8265 2 жыл бұрын
fantastic vid, super helpful
@defaultgenCQ 6 жыл бұрын
Thanks. Hotel analogy very helpful.
@renushriggah6192 2 жыл бұрын
This helped so much
@ThatDudeDeven 2 жыл бұрын
Man I can't find one of these for screw-ins. By you anyway. Damn it.
@Conmann 3 жыл бұрын
thank you! i forgot to clip them back in and kept dropping them!
@themainsuspect 2 жыл бұрын
thank you, kind and beautiful man, without you i could just break the stab
@AO-yo1ke 4 жыл бұрын
Genius ! Good stuff with detail, focus and explanation! Very usefull ty.
@Kayluxia 2 жыл бұрын
Listen i dont have those holes there to put the stabs on my pcb and ive been stuck here for like an hour stressing about it please help i need help
@mctatertot9505 3 жыл бұрын
Very helpful vid
@rixzen1x 3 жыл бұрын
i accidently took out the housing and the inside peice while the metal part was still in and now idk how to put it in
@Macsnapsmedia 3 жыл бұрын
Thankyou so much!
@oeuvre821 4 жыл бұрын
I took my spacebar out of my HyperX Alloy FPS pro and one of the mini black switches came out (the inside "+" part). I'm trying to slide it back in but I can't. What can I do?
@skiwithpete 4 жыл бұрын
Oof, that's not going to be easy. You might need to look into keyboard repair shop, if you're not comfortable with de-soldering and soldering.
@Reksrat 4 жыл бұрын
Oh my gosh i feel so dumb! Thank you so much for this video, it really helped!
@gabesydenham2781 2 жыл бұрын
I can’t seem to clip mine in is it because there is no lube?
@taylordalton5492 3 жыл бұрын
So its essentially the right prong on both side of the stem/slider?
@toastplane9919 2 жыл бұрын
rip i clipped the wrong one and now it wont work does anyone have suggestion for new stabilizers?
@StealthyLV 3 жыл бұрын
HOLY THANK YOU!
@xlInYouFace 4 жыл бұрын
I know it's very late to the video, but how does that procedure change for iso layout and the bigger enter key? Especially how would you know that the PCB works with the intended iso layout and stabs for the enter. Thanks!
@skiwithpete 4 жыл бұрын
Hi, yeah, the iso enter has the stabilizer oriented vertically (vs all of the horizontally oriented ones I'm putting on this board). Most hot-swap boards are one or the other. Most solder boards are both. Hope that helps. If you're still confused, I really recommend the 1upkeyboards Discord.
@xlInYouFace 4 жыл бұрын
@@skiwithpete oh wow thank you so much for the super quick response. So I saw the new Novel keys hotswap board, is this likely to be also one or the other? Thanks again.
@skiwithpete 4 жыл бұрын
@@xlInYouFace Yes, as far as I'm aware it will always be one or the other as the hotswap is in a position that won't allow ISO.
@1gleek1 2 жыл бұрын
Do you have to cut the little bits off
@skiwithpete 2 жыл бұрын
no. It is not required.
@1gleek1 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@love26638202 5 жыл бұрын
Does the wire goes in the hole of First floor or the bottom of the Hotel?
@skiwithpete 5 жыл бұрын
Goes in the bottom floor. In some places that is the first floor, other places that would be ground floor. But the wire goes into the lowest floor of the hotel.
@saltngash6603 3 жыл бұрын
thanks i tried lubing my stabs and i couldn't get them back in hotel and ground method helped a lot
@stephen3260 3 жыл бұрын
Does it matter which way you put them in? Like if the wire is up or down
@skiwithpete 3 жыл бұрын
Boards are designed to have them one way or the other. You want to put them in the correct way. But it doesn't matter which way that is.
@crosyroadboi5158 2 жыл бұрын
can you use durok v2 stabalisers on any pcb because durok v2 are screw in i think?
@petergosselin1180 2 жыл бұрын
Yes all pcb stabilizers are compatible and interchangeable.
@crosyroadboi5158 2 жыл бұрын
@@petergosselin1180 thank so for the info :)
@ryanhi8695 4 жыл бұрын
Are you able to remove the stabs once snapped in? I would like to mod my stabs.
@skiwithpete 4 жыл бұрын
Yes, the clip can be pushed back up. But, if your board has switches soldered in... then likely no.
@itzredd2496 5 жыл бұрын
Can I use WD 40 for the stabilizer
@Solus793 5 жыл бұрын
No, don't put WD40 on plastic. It will rot it.
@eatingpips 3 жыл бұрын
Hi man, What does 625u 60 87 stab set, or 6u 104 stab set, or 7u 60 87 stab set mean when you're trying to buy stabilizers for your keyboard?
@skiwithpete 3 жыл бұрын
So u size is the width of the keycaps. A single keycap is one u. Some spacebars are 6u, 6.25u or 7u. And depending on the layout of your bottom row, only one will fit. The 60, 87, 104 is the size of your keyboard. Depending on the size tells you the number of stabilizers you'll need. For example on a 104 you need stabilizers under your number pad 0, enter and plus keys. On a 60, you don't have those. Make sense?
@eatingpips 3 жыл бұрын
@@skiwithpete yea man thank you so much! I have a GMMK TKL so I would need to buy 625u 104 set?
@eatingpips 3 жыл бұрын
Sorry a 625u 60 87 set is right for TKL?
@skiwithpete 3 жыл бұрын
@@eatingpips Yes, a 60% set is all that's needed as there are no more stabilizers needed on a TKL (everything that's extra is 1u).
@thosright8796 3 жыл бұрын
@@skiwithpete Do u mean 6.25. This is just for extreme confirmation as I am thinking about getting a 60 percent nk cream setup!
@raymanovich3254 3 жыл бұрын
is it worth spending 20 bucks for fancy screw-in stabs over clipping generic MX style clip-in stabs? I'm planning on band-aiding and lubing regardless.
@skiwithpete 3 жыл бұрын
It's a lot about personal preference. All of the screw in stabilizers have a smaller top hole than the clip in. So there's less noise without lube. But with lube, the size of that hole matters less. Though I don't bandaid... If I did I would absolutely get screw in.
@raymanovich3254 3 жыл бұрын
@@skiwithpete Well I'm trying to keep the cost down a little, so I'm probably just going to mod the stabs that come with the kit I'm buying, that should still give quite a decent experience right?
@skiwithpete 3 жыл бұрын
@@raymanovich3254 spend the money on lube
@raymanovich3254 3 жыл бұрын
@@skiwithpete How does one identify "good" lube? And where do you shop for it. Most of what I've seen is out of stock.
@skiwithpete 3 жыл бұрын
@@raymanovich3254 I'm the owner of 1upkeyboards.com and we've got all the good stuff. You want thick for lube. Or if you don't trust small biz, follow the link in "misc" on the site to an Amazon link.
@alpacah 6 жыл бұрын
will there be any video showcasing sip sockets? :D
@skiwithpete 6 жыл бұрын
arkhze sip sockets for LEDs? You might check out my last two streams.
@MrWiZerD 3 жыл бұрын
My stabilizer fell out and I can’t put it back in what do I do?
@mrplops5930 3 жыл бұрын
Same did you fix it
@MrWiZerD 3 жыл бұрын
@@mrplops5930 nope
@trollface7561 4 жыл бұрын
Where can i get a spacebar wire?
@skiwithpete 4 жыл бұрын
Typically you have to buy the whole set. But is it costar it cherry style?
@361draco4 3 жыл бұрын
My slider came out with my space bar keycap when I pulled it out
@skiwithpete 3 жыл бұрын
Depending on which type it is, you might need to disassemble your keyboard to fix
@farmageddon2978 4 жыл бұрын
trying to find out how to do screw in ones
@skiwithpete 4 жыл бұрын
I'll make a video of that soon
@smoletriqo3493 3 жыл бұрын
this is no help to me. how do i put in screw ins???
@skiwithpete 3 жыл бұрын
kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oK19kpd2pqfZkmQ.html use this one instead.
@ultrapilled694 Жыл бұрын
So big and long 🤩
@thehoodtroller8897 4 жыл бұрын
Do you need the stabilizers?
@skiwithpete 4 жыл бұрын
Yeah. Without them it's all going to be very unstable
@thehoodtroller8897 4 жыл бұрын
skiwithpete like Wobbly?
@petergosselin1180 4 жыл бұрын
@@thehoodtroller8897 yeah and if you hit the corner of your spacebar, it might not press space, just tip your keycap.
@thehoodtroller8897 4 жыл бұрын
Peter Gosselin it’s funny cause all my Stabilizers are off except my space bar and the other ones work fine cause there small so I’m in luck than thx
@bgra487 2 жыл бұрын
@@skiwithpete hey man my stabs (gmk screw in stabs 104 kit) my space bar stabs are wobbly and the stem is getting out of the housing a little bit more than it should be do you have any idea why the stabs work great but are wobbly because the stem is getting a bit more than the rest of the stabs ( my build is a custom 60% first build)
@hysteria7819 3 жыл бұрын
so this is why my spacebar needs to be clicked in the middle, i didnt clip it in the lubricant. fuck me
@roosar1060 2 жыл бұрын
Me with a non hotswap 😶🌫️👍
@pilotreg 2 жыл бұрын
i would sell my first child for custom stabs to avoid clipping or adding tape and stuff
@skiwithpete 2 жыл бұрын
It's made too complicated by nerds who are talking about making a 0.1% difference. Before the pandemic, I'd attended meetups with different types of stabilizers and challenged "experts" to identify them... All that to say, don't stress about it. Here's an idea, buy a board based on hot swap switches and that way you can disassemble and upgrade your stabs at a later date.
@farmageddon2978 4 жыл бұрын
finally someone talking and explaining instead of playing some bullshit gay music in the background..thank you!!!
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