If you are willing to put a little extra work in, your Cherry stabilizers can benefit from some custom modifications, the most common being band aid, clip, and lube. Gold-plated wire. All stabs come with accompanying screws and washers. Disassembled ready to lube; we recommend Krytox 205g2 or Krytox XHT-BDZ. Everglide stabilizers come with a gold-plated stabilizer bar and clear housing, very similar to the ZealPC stabilizers. They are also pre-clipped, come in the screw-in style, and are a decent price. Screw-in stabilizers are typically only found on custom-made keyboards and not on pre-built keyboards, which makes them less common, but highly sought after. The ZealPC stabilizers are offered only in the screw-mount style, with a custom nut design to prevent stripping the threads.

In this guide, we’ll be focusing primarily on the Cherry stabilizer type when explaining all of the different options available. It’s possible to get Cherry style stabilizers in screw-in, snap-in, or plate-mounted variations. However, some keyboards will have the right plate cut-outs and PCB stabilizer mounting holes. If yours does, you should be able to go with either screw-in or plate-mount stabilizers, depending on your preferences. Stabilizer ModsKits include 4 x 2u Stabilisers, as well as 1 x 6.25u Stabiliser and 1 x 7u Stabiliser wire and required screws and washers. This new kit includes both spacebar wires required.

Costar stabilizers are a less common stabilizer type, as they are primarily only found on older keyboards, although some newer keyboards may have them. It may seem like a lot of work, but it’s not that bad. Just be sure to do it before you assemble the stabilizers, as it can be a pain lubing stabs that are already in place. Also, note you’ll have to dismantle your keyboard and unclip these from behind the PCB to remove them, unlike screw-in or plate-mount stabilizers. There isn’t a good way to modify these stabilizers to improve them, although you could apply a small amount of lubricant to reduce the sound and rattle noises.As mentioned before, snap-in stabilizers can pop out the PCB when trying to remove the keycaps, where screw-in stabilizers do not have this problem. Different Brands that Make Cherry Style Stabilizers Screw-in stabilizers mount directly into the PCB and are attached with screws. This mounting style is considered the best because the stabilizers are much more secure and will vibrate less. The band-aid mod requires you to place a small strip of band-aid on the PCB beneath the stabilizer housings. This dampens the stabilizers and gives them a more solid feeling when you bottom out a key. It’s slightly fiddly, but you may as well do it before you install your stabs. GMK is mainly known for their high-end keycaps, but they also produce genuine Cherry style stabilizers. This means they actually hold the tooling to make the “proper” Cherry stabilizers. If you have a keyboard with Cherry stabilizers, most likely they were produced by GMK. The stabilizers are pre-clipped which makes them rest on the PCB in a more stable fashion and improve the typing experience.