Alps Stabilizers

[drevyek]

My Alps board (based on the SGI Granite) has some of the loudest stabilizers imaginable. The keys are damped Creamsicles, which just makes the sound from the wire-stabilized keys all the more noticeable. Is there any way to reduce the sound of the wire stabs?

[ohaimark]

Grease. Preferably something plastic safe. I use Super Lube without noticeable plastic degradation.

[Chyros]

My Alps board (based on the SGI Granite) has some of the loudest stabilizers imaginable. The keys are damped Creamsicles, which just makes the sound from the wire-stabilized keys all the more noticeable. Is there any way to reduce the sound of the wire stabs?

You can eliminate the rattle with some greasy substance on the stabiliser clips (on the side that slides - being Alps it's probably the keycap side).

[drevyek]

Awesome- I have some krytox in the mail, and a bit of dry silicon grease at home. I'll give em a go. Hopefully it shuts em up.

[drevyek]

Lube just got here; it is basically magic. Right shift went from being shaky and generally bullshit to being silent as a mouse (or about as close as I can get these guys). Thanks for the tip on where to put the grease.

[mike52787]

Ive never really had issues with alps stabs being noisy, but I have lubed the stabilized sides of BS caps before on boards that were particularly well used. I generally dont mind really loud stabs, as most of my boards are already really loud

[zslane]

Yeah, I read countless recommendations for lubing the stabilizer clips and just sort of ignored it until this past weekend when I decided to try it on all my rattley Costar stabilizers. Amazing difference. I used Big Bends Nut Sauce and it worked very nicely.

[Hypersphere]

I routinely lube stabilzers at all friction points, including the plate clips and inserts, using Superlube grease. For spacebars, I deaden the spacebar using some self-adhesive foam strips applied to the inside of the spacebar. The spacebar switch is the only one in which I like to have a damped slider (I used a slider from a Matias Quiet switch). Finally, if the keyboard does not already have them, I put some small rectangles of 0.15 mm self-adhesive polyurethane foam on the plate where the spacebar stabilizer inserts strike the plate.

[drevyek]

I routinely lube stabilzers at all friction points, including the plate clips and inserts, using Superlube grease. For spacebars, I deaden the spacebar using some self-adhesive foam strips applied to the inside of the spacebar. The spacebar switch is the only one in which I like to have a damped slider (I used a slider from a Matias Quiet switch). Finally, if the keyboard does not already have them, I put some small rectangles of 0.15 mm self-adhesive polyurethane foam on the plate where the spacebar stabilizer inserts strike the plate.

My spacebar has the exact thing. the spacebar is amazingly quiet now. I also put a bit of lube on the vertical stabilizing pinion, which made a world of difference for some binding I was getting.

Ive never really had issues with alps stabs being noisy, but I have lubed the stabilized sides of BS caps before on boards that were particularly well used. I generally dont mind really loud stabs, as most of my boards are already really loud

I had never before either, but this board I'm working on is fully damped, which makes everything noticeable. You could hear the wires rubbing on the clips. Now, they're stone quiet.

[Hypersphere]

@drevyek: On several of my Alps boards, I have replaced the original spacebar with a black one from Matias, which does not have vertical stabilizers -- it works just fine without them.