A brief reflection and look at how far our community has come since joining. I’ve been in the mechanical keyboard hobby for a very long time. It started as a high school student’s search for a keyboard for writing novels back in the 2008-2009 school year. I thought I wanted to be an author and I felt I needed a keyboard that I could sit down to at my desk and just write. After researching, joining forums, and saving money, I made my first purchase in the hobby, a blank black Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional 2. I still own this keyboard and while it is heavily modded now, it remains one of my all-time favorites. My HHKB Pro2 with MitchCapped Accents Many people would have stopped there, but keyboards became a hobby. I enjoyed learning about them, and early on, I enjoyed hunting for them in thrift shops. I would dig through bins at Goodwill and Salvation Army while popping keycaps off with paperclips looking for mechanical switches. I searched for a birthday Model M...
May 7, 2024
First, the right stabilizer on the spacebar will not stay in place. It sits loose in it's spot and pulls up and out during normal use, which eventually results in the spacebar jamming and takes manual intervention to fix.
Second, the backspace has a ton of resistance, it doesn't like to move at all, to the point of being difficult to use sometimes. If I take the keycap off the switch actuates normally, my best guess is that the stabilizers are misaligned, causing it to bind.
I would really appreciate any help in dealing with this issue. I'll send it back to Massdrop if I have to, but I'd love to be able to avoid that.
Edit: Twisting hardish on my backspace makes it a little better, but after hitting it a few times it goes back to binding. It seems like it's probably a stabilizer alignment problem.