Cleaning Keyboard

Barman58 said:

The way I was taught to clean a keyboard is as follows.

1. Invert the keyboard and gently tap out as much detritus as is possible.
2. Use compressed air to remove stubborn matter.
3. Using a computer specific safe cleaning spray apply sparingly to a clean dry lint free cloth and lay the cloth over the keyboard.
4. Use a medium firm quality brush on top of the cloth to work the cloth over and between the keys.

This I have found to clean a keyboard without the need for disassembly, and is the professional way just because it does not take as long and time is money

LOL... wait till the day you have to get a half a bottle of maple syrup out of a keyboard that very nicely sat on the dining room table so they could use the computer during meals...

Everyone is correct... laptops are an entirely different matter... when you get one of those keyboards far enough gone, you replace it.

Barman58 said:

The strangest detritus I've ever found in a keyboard was a salted peanut lodged under the enter key this was preventing the operator from doing any work so the keyboard was replaced and the old one dismantled back in the workshop in spare time.

I still have no idea how that particular object manged to find itself where it did. This was an industrial keyboard without removable keys

Any allergies? Bad joke

I've washed two keyboards under hot water without taking them apart. One of them had pop spilled on it. I shook out as much water as I could and let them dry in the sun for a couple of days. They both work fine now. I've heard stories where people have actually put them in dishwashers and they worked fine afterwords. Your mileage may vary.

I saw an ad for some kind of thin putty stuff that you pressed into the keys and then peeled it off with all the dirt.
Can't recall what it was called and forgot to bookmark it.:)

alphanumeric said:

I've washed two keyboards under hot water without taking them apart. One of them had pop spilled on it. I shook out as much water as I could and let them dry in the sun for a couple of days. They both work fine now. I've heard stories where people have actually put them in dishwashers and they worked fine afterwords. Your mileage may vary.

WOW... Even I'm not that brave....