Cleaning your keyboard

[Fly N Dive]

Before you begin the following procedures, ensure you either take a digital picture of your keyboard's layout, or have another keyboard with an identical layout handy.

Take a small screwdriver, get it under a key and pull up a little to pop the key off. Do this for all they keys except the spacebar (it's a pain to get back on). After you've taken them all off, simply tilt the keyboard upside down and watch all the little (or not so little) crumbs fall out. Then put all the keys back on in the right spot.

It works wonders for your keyboard if you have a few minutes to do this.

also great if you run out of scrabble tiles
my dad got this keyboard that is compleatly waterproof, its entirely rubber. plus you can roll it up.

 

[baltimoron]

hmm... I would suggest taking a bath with it, though make sure to plug it in after you submerge it. Just to see if it worked!!

 

[FredT]

A second stage hose, with the reg removed, works pretty well. Hook it to a tank before you have it refilled and hose the critter down with the compressed air with the valve full on. This wakes up all the neighbors in the apartment complex so it's best to do about 0700 on a monday morning. It also removes most of larger and all the smaller chunks out from under the keys, as well as a few keys if you get it too close. Wear safety glasses or a face shield. Those chunks come out at a fairly high velocity.

FT

 

[ling]

Hurray cleaning my keyboard will be a new activity for those rain filled sunday mornings.......Shd rename this thread a million and one ways to clean your keyboard.I like the baby wipes idea coz it smells yummy.

 

[scuber steve]

One time for Christmas I got a Computer cleaning kit. I had a floppy to clean the inside of your floppy drive and some other thing. Worked wonder really. It also has a hand-held electric keyboard cleaner. It had a nozze that you stick into the groove of the keys and shot out air. Worked quite well. If you see one of these, ther are worth the money.

 

[skye]

It's more fun if you don't remember where keys were and have to keep changing them around.