Hi folks I got my Model 01 last week and immediately tried using the octopus stands, as I’m used to using a Kinesis Advantage (split keyboard). I found one of the stands to be fairly stable (not rock solid, but about as good as you could hope from plastic), but the other one seems to not be balance…

Well, now that the cat’s out of the bag, this is what we’ve been sending people: We think that we may have figured out the cause of the stand warping issue. It appears to be an assembly issue, rather than a manufacturing issue. To the best of our understanding, the factory simply overtightened the…

Mine isn’t quite level either. Was living with it to see if it stopped annoying me for the moment.

This is a known issue which I have also encountered. It was mentioned in the backer update two months ago: http://blog.keyboard.io/post/168350141319/day-907-update-on-wood-suppliers-and-mp1-field [image] Like they said, if you email them they will put you on a list to send you a fixed stand once …

Thanks! I’ll send an email now.

In the meantime, I highly recommend trying out a 3d printed stand as described here: A better tented stand Good opportunity to get to know your local maker space :slight_smile:

Just an update, I sent an email to help@keyboard.io with subject line “Warped Model 01 stand” and Jesse got back to me with a solution very quickly. I won’t detail it here as I’m sure he wants to keep accurate numbers on how many people this is affecting, but suffice it to say it was about 10 minute…

[image] jesse: So far, it looks like the process doesn’t ruin the rubber pads, though we’re happy to send you replacements if you need them. Yep, I have a small dot in the bottom of each one that I punctured, but it is really minor.

I just did the same thing and it makes a huge difference. I am curious though, for some of them it required about a half rotation and now the screw appears to be bulging the rubber out. This doesn’t seem to be effecting the stability detrimentally, but I was curious if this is normal

Only half a rotation shouldn’t have gotten the screw up that far. the rubber may just have been distorted a little bit by the process of puncturing it.

I gave the fix a try, since one of my stands is like this; weight of my hand resting on the keyboard is enough to tilt its back legs off the table. It doesn’t bother me personally since I prefer not using the stands, but I was curious. Results: doesn’t seem to have made much difference one way or t…

A possible fix for wobbly stands

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Kethku (Keith Simmons) February 28, 2018, 9:38pm 7

What is this magic fix??? I got no such suggestions… maybe I will go pester Jesse some more

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