Screw-in, which is the most secure of the three fittings and the quietest once tuned, in a PA nylon housing on gold-plated wire. The kit is four 2u plus one long stabilizer, and the 6.25u and 7u are separate variants rather than both being in the box, so check your spacebar width before ordering. Nothing in the listing says they arrive lubed, so treat the wire ends as your job. Only one of the six shops carries this version, so there is no second set of figures to check these against.
Nylon housings and silver-plated wire, screw-in and PCB mount, with eight 2u wires and two 6.25u in the kit, which is roughly twice the spares most sets give you. Worth knowing before you pick a color: the listing splits the colorways by travel, 4.0 mm on most of them and 3.4 mm on the black and silver version, so that one is for short-pole switches and the others are not. Nothing says they are pre-lubed. One shop of the six stocks it, so there is nothing to cross-check the travel figures against.
Screw-in and PCB mount, and the unusual entry on the spec sheet is the wire: a shape-memory alloy from Liquidmetal rather than the usual plated steel. Wire is the one variable that decides whether a set rattles, so it is the right thing to spend the claim on, but the listing puts no number behind it and no second shop carries the set to compare against. Sold as an 80 percent kit and a 100 percent kit, both spanning 2u, 6.25u and 7u, and both including Teflon tape and wire cushions, so the tuning parts are in the box. Housing material is not stated, and the price is quoted per kit size rather than per set, so neither is recorded here.
Doubleshot again, but here the soft component is silicone and it sits at both contact points, housing to stem and stem to wire. The V4 change worth knowing is the move from nylon to polycarbonate, which every listing describes as a higher pitch rather than a quieter one, so it is a sound change and not a rattle fix. All three shops agree on screw-in, 1.6 mm PCBs and a 2u, 6.25u and 7u spread, and all three disagree on price, so no price is recorded. They also disagree on how many 2u wires are in the box, four or five, which is why the count is not given either.
The AP stem is doubleshot, a POM shell around a TPU and POM core, and that soft inner material is the whole pitch: it grips the wire at the point where a stabilizer would otherwise buzz. Screw-in and PCB mount, in 1.6 mm and 1.2 mm versions, with four 2u wires and both long sizes in the base kit. Housing material and wire material are both blank here, because the listings describe the stem at length and say nothing about either, and the wire is the part that actually decides whether a set rattles. The two shops price the base kit differently, so no figure is recorded.
Genuine Cherry clip-in housings, PCB mount with no screws anywhere, four 2u and one 6.25u in the base kit. KeebsForAll states outright that they will not go into a plate mount board and CannonKeys lists them as clip-in only, which is the compatibility trap to check before ordering rather than after. Wire material is blank because both shops describe the wires only by color, and on the long sizes at least one of them substitutes its own wire built to Cherry spec instead of Cherry's, so the component that decides whether a set rattles is the component nobody specifies. Prices differ between the two and the kit contents differ with them, so no price is recorded.
Plate mount, which clips into the plate instead of the PCB: no screws, no need for a drilled board, and a small amount of movement in the clips that no amount of grease will remove. Nylon housings on stainless steel wire, four 2u plus a 6.25u and a 7u, and Mechboards states plainly that they are not pre-lubed. KeebsForAll notes the stems have flat bottoms, so the clip mod that most stabilizers need is already done. No price is recorded because the two shops quote in different currencies and neither figure is a whole number of dollars.
The same doubleshot AP stem in a plate mount housing, cut for 1.5 mm plates and following Cherry sizing. Plate mount is the compromise fitting: nothing to screw and no drilled PCB required, at the cost of play in the clips that cannot be lubricated out, so this is the one to buy when the board gives you no choice rather than when it does. Three of the six shops carry it and all three list four 2u wires plus a 6.25u and a 7u, which covers a 60 percent or a TKL either way. Housing and wire materials are not stated by any of them.
