Suggestions to gently clean a Keyboard

[thatsright]

Hi Everyone.

Well I bought one of those MS Natural Multimedia Keyboards about 14 months ago. Well its not dirty in the usual sense, you know gunk all over the keys or keyboard 'chassis.' The problem I'm having is that now it takes more pressure to hit each key, and its a lot more noisy. When I first got it, all I had to do was lightly tap on each key. Now I have to use a lot more force.

So I'm just wondering if anyone has fixed this and gotten their keyboard back to its light key strokes? I'm not that enamored of disassembling the keyboard, but I will if its the only way. I don't have any compressed air handy, so what else could I do??

Thanks everyone!!!:thumbsup:

 

[Appledrop]

lol, well after spilling a bowl of soup on mine, i did this:-
panic
jump up and drop keyboard on outdoor patio
turn keyboard upside down!!
left it there
went back inside and cleared up!
got back, took a sponge and many kitchen rolls to it
finally plugged it back in.
damn sticky keys without even pressing shiftshiftshiftshiftshift!!!!!!!111
went upstairs
took old keyboard and installed

sorry. not much help.. consider this a bump :9

 

[WobbleWobble]

You can pop off each key individually, but that probably won't let you get deep enough to clean out the gunk.

Keyboards aren't that hard to disassemble and reassemble, it does take time though.

 

[coolego1]

I have a wireless multimedia keyboard from MS, and when I spilled pepsi on it, I just unscruwed the thing and took it apart. It lets you get at any part of it you want. I basically ran water on thing and now it's pretty good, minus the sticky left ctrl key. Just remember to only do the keys part when you run it under water...

 

[SkyBum]

Hell, I just took a digital pic of my keyboard, popped off all the keys and put them in the silverware basket in my dishwasher. While that was running I wiped down the rest of the board and cleaned out all the gunk that comes from trying to drink beer, eat and frag all at the same time. By the time I was done with that the keys were nice and shiny again.

Good damn thing I had that pic to put it back together tho.....

 

[Shenkoa]

I clean my keyboard by removing every key individually cleaning them. Takes forever but works great.

 

[globalcitizen]

try using compressed aire to blow the dust out and then vacuum it. If you dont want to buy compressed aire, blow into the keyboard then suck out the dust.

Worked for me

 

[lenjack]

After about 5 years, I removed all the keys and vacuumed. Amazing amount of fluff under there. Cleaned up well and no problems upon reassembly.

 

[thatsright]

Okay, and how do I get each key off? Do I pop them off with a screwdriver, or something else??

 

[muoot]

A Q-tip dipped in windex to gently clean those areas with grime bulid-up

 

[imported_Salvatore]

Pencil, Pen...

Anything that will give you the needed leverage to pop the keys off.

 

[SkyBum]

A butter knife worked pretty well for me....