Hair help: I took off my keyboard keys and there is soo much hair and gunk down there, can anyone recomend a good way to clean it down inbetween the keys? - Help.com

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I took off my keyboard keys and there is soo much hair and gunk down there, can anyone recomend a good way to clean it down inbetween the keys?

At the moment I have some warm water and vinegar in a bowl and some cotton tip buds but its all gungey down there, any better ways?

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Tear Jerker offline Verified User (1 year, 6 months) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (0 minutes after post)

Well you can buy little vacuum cleaners for keyboards that plug into the computer usb slot. Or you can just use an ordinary vacuum cleaner.

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Dance w/me Cristiano offline Verified User (1 year, 6 months) Long Term User Shouts: 14 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (1 minute after post)

i know what you mean
i use my drafting brush to clean it and a damp towel

tooth picks too

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Dance w/me Cristiano offline Verified User (1 year, 6 months) Long Term User Shouts: 14 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (2 minutes after post)

u can use a hair dryer but with no heat

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Richard Cor de Lyon offline Verified User (2 years, 6 months) Long Term User Shouts: 20 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (6 minutes after post)

Your keyboard is an electrical device, to get it wet, even for a good reason would be a huge mistake. They sell canned air for this purpose… to blow the stuff out of the keyboard… and they make the keyboard vacuums. I’ve used the canned air… it works fine.

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PomPom offline Verified User (1 year, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
GB | 1 year, 5 months ago (7 minutes after post)

what about the grease???

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Tear Jerker offline Verified User (1 year, 6 months) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (8 minutes after post)

Just use a little bleach on cotton, its what I use and my keyboard works fine. Plus its really clean :)

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GB | 1 year, 5 months ago (8 minutes after post)

theres caked on greasy stuff, dont ask me what it is and yeah thanks for that advice rich i didnnt even think of that…

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PomPom offline Verified User (1 year, 9 months) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
GB | 1 year, 5 months ago (11 minutes after post)

do you men cotton wool swbs? m key is missing so be r with me

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GB | 1 year, 5 months ago (12 minutes after post)

the gre sy bits wont come off unless i rub em with something nd the cotton tips rent enough

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Tear Jerker offline Verified User (1 year, 6 months) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (15 minutes after post)

Yeah cotton tips, a bit of old cloth, maybe even one of the softer scourers you can buy, whatever works best for you.

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GB | 1 year, 5 months ago (20 minutes after post)

the only problem is the bits where the keys go stick out n m ke it h rd to rub the gre se

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Richard Cor de Lyon offline Verified User (2 years, 6 months) Long Term User Shouts: 20 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (25 minutes after post)

looks like you lost your ‘A’.

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Tear Jerker offline Verified User (1 year, 6 months) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (27 minutes after post)

If you have a spare keyboard plug it in while you clean this one. When you have time just take all the keys out one row at a time and give it a good clean with a damp cloth, not to wet just enough to help get rid of the grease. Then from now on just give it a vacuum once in awhile and spray with a disenfectant. You’d be amazed at how many germs accumulate on the keyboard alone. More that the toilet!!

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GB | 1 year, 5 months ago (9 hours, 54 minutes after post)

ok my a and d and e keys and backspace and a few others dont work, if water has gone into the hole thingy where the rubber is will that mean i have messed up my keyboard and might as well throw it away now? lucky i had a spare in a box somewhere

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GB | 1 year, 5 months ago (9 hours, 55 minutes after post)

i did try not to get water into it..could it have been something else?

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Dance w/me Cristiano offline Verified User (1 year, 6 months) Long Term User Shouts: 14 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (12 hours, 23 minutes after post)

my old laptop didnt work, humidity found its way in and the motherboard was ruined

it wouldnt open, it turns on but u dont here the sound of the machines working

first my dad told me to put it somewhere warm, on top of the fire place, after about an hour when i went to see it i saw some water drops on it, then he was like , i told you, so he used a hair dryer and started to blow dry my computer for 15 mins

but with low heat so nothing would melt

and it actually worked, we did it for 7 times before we took it to get fixed

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (3 days, 2 hours after post)

the only way method you should use to clean your keyboard is to used compressed air. you can buy it at any office supply store. what it is, of course, is a can of compressed air that you attach a narrow tube to the end of the nozzle. when you push the button, the force of the air escaping through the narrow tube clears away all that gunk and stuff in your keyboard. it leaves no residue or anything, so you won’t have to worry about your keyboard clogging, corroding, or melting.

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GB | 1 year, 5 months ago (3 days, 2 hours after post)

well it dont work now but would the compressed air have worked on the greasy stuff?

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Shakeybritches offline Verified User (1 year, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (4 days, 13 hours after post)

Qtips and compressed air, or take it to a computer store, Shakey

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GB | 1 year, 5 months ago (4 days, 22 hours after post)

ah the keyboards on the floor, guess its dead now *kicks keyboard* yep. its gone

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Shakeybritches offline Verified User (1 year, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (4 days, 22 hours after post)

gasp………what did you do that for?

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Shakeybritches offline Verified User (1 year, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (4 days, 22 hours after post)

I had a hammer I could clean it with.

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GB | 1 year, 5 months ago (4 days, 22 hours after post)

its just lying there dead, i’ll leave this post as a reminder what NOT to do to a keyboard when you decide to clean out the stuff under it

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Shakeybritches offline Verified User (1 year, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (4 days, 22 hours after post)

Maybe it was it’s time.

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GB | 1 year, 5 months ago (4 days, 22 hours after post)

i hope theres a keyboard heaven, maybe i should bury it..

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Shakeybritches offline Verified User (1 year, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (4 days, 22 hours after post)

Yeah, or you can cremate it.

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GB | 1 year, 5 months ago (4 days, 22 hours after post)

dont beleive in cremating, am told it causes distress to the keyboard as the soul is still in the keyboard up to 40 days after it dies

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Shakeybritches offline Verified User (1 year, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (4 days, 22 hours after post)

well how can that be……it’s letters are detached, it’s dead……lol

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Shakeybritches offline Verified User (1 year, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (4 days, 22 hours after post)

did you try giving it Ctrl+CPR ?

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GB | 1 year, 5 months ago (4 days, 22 hours after post)

yeah but the soul is still in it accoding to my beliefs, somewhere in there, the memories of all the times we fought monsters together, crafted items in games and suceeded in making HQ stuff, all the times i ate and drank while typing on it and all the time i was slowly killing it by dropping grease and crumbs down it… i CANT LIVE WITH MYSELF!! I cAUSE THIS!!!

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Shakeybritches offline Verified User (1 year, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (4 days, 22 hours after post)

Did you try mouth to Shift?

were you the last one to see it alive?

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GB | 1 year, 5 months ago (4 days, 22 hours after post)

i tried all of that… do you think i kept a keyboard and didn’t know how to keep it responsibly? well apart from what killed it

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Shakeybritches offline Verified User (1 year, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (4 days, 22 hours after post)

LMAO!

Baaaaaaaadd! he he he

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Shakeybritches offline Verified User (1 year, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 2 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (4 days, 22 hours after post)

Try to behave today PomPom……..LOL, I gotta go to bed, just got off of work a little bit ago. Thank you for the shout. Gotta pack parachutes this afternoon, maybe I can get on tonight. Have a great day, Shakey

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