From kragen@dnaco.net Fri Jul 17 23:43:53 1998 Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 23:43:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Kragen To: "systalk@ml.org" Subject: Re: [ST] Painting computers, cleaning keyboards In-Reply-To: <199807180300.4731400.7@mail.olcs.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Keywords: X-UID: 608 Status: O X-Status: On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, Antony T Curtis wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jul 1998 20:52:34, Andrew Davis wrote: > >At 15:41 17/07/98 -0400, you wrote: > >You can do that to a keyboard? Yep, and I'm typing on that keyboard right now. > > What exactly did you do? Unscrewed the case, took the two parts of the case into the kitchen, washed them as if they were plates (with a sponge and dish soap), took the electronic parts out in the yard and hosed 'em down, brought 'em back inside, and baked 'em. Oh, and while I was baking 'em, I painted the case. Then I put it all back together. Unfortunately, I lost the screws that held the "XT/AT" switch to the keyboard case, so it's sort of floating around inside there. > > My keyboard is > >dirtier than the city dump. Do I have to take all the circuit boards etc > >out first? > > I simply pull off the key caps and go over it with a vacuum cleaner. > Dump the key caps into a bowl of soapy water... wash then dry... Pop > the key caps back on. Sounds like a reasonable idea. I wasn't cleaning the key caps -- they were pretty clean. (If you just want to make them not look like the city dump, a damp sponge with a little bit of soap on it will help quite a bit -- and you don't even have to take the keyboard apart, or even unplug it, as long as the sponge isn't drippy. If you're *really* lazy, you can just type with damp fingers, but make sure you have a rag to wipe your hands on to get the guck off :) > >I would like to know how to clean that keyboard.. > > You can buy a "special tool" to help remove the key caps, but I just > use a bit of wire and *pull*... If you have an IC puller (is that what they're called?) that works too. Kragen