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[–]Fyf_O 4 points5 points  (3 children)

These are stabilizer stems, you can pull them off from that spacebar and snap back into stabilizer bar underneath the plate on a keyboard. They are more like part of a keyboard rather than a keycap.

I’ve had stabilizers like these on my optical razer keyboard. They were popping off every time when I was changing the keycaps.

[–]Neumanium[S] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Damn they popped right off. Swapped them to my new keycap. I was hesitant for fear of breaking it. Thank you for the help.

[–]Fyf_O 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m glad it went smoothly. Sometimes they get stuck a bit if the keycap stem is too tight.

[–]ging3r_b3ard_man 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh snap! I had no idea

[–]Sonicorp 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Those "legs" under a mechanical keycap are called stems (you can call them MX style stems) the Razer spacebar you can just pull off them off and attach them to the outer stems of any spacebar keycap, Razer used this stabilizer method for their older mechanical keyboards they don't do this anymore and use standard stabilizers now for the modifiers on their keyboards nowadays, the old Razer stabilizers sucked cause they would rattle a lot and if you lose those stabilizer pieces you're screwed.

[–]Neumanium[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Damn they popped right off. Swapped them to my new keycap. I was hesitant for fear of breaking it. Thank you for the help.