Once they're up, you can clean up the half-dissolved adhesive goop on the bottom of the key and any other nastiness where the key presses down.īe careful with keys that are not square! They get pried up from the side (cannot remember which side) and some have small metal springs that will want to get lost. You need to pry up the individual keys from the bottom, there's a hinge that they click into at the top. #CLEANING APPLE KEYBOARD WITH NUMERIC KEYPAD FULL#As long as it wasn't a full on dump and the fluid isn't affecting the electrics, you can pull off each key and clean under with a cotton swab, toothpick, and gentle work. I spilled a beer on mine (dumb, I know) and was plagued with a sticky left side of the keyboard. While I'm not willing to attempt this myself, it does have me optimistic about the alcohol bath. **I've read on one forum that top-rack dishwasher worked (allowing the board to fully dry for a week afterward was successful. I'll do my best to report back as to whether the keyboard properly functioned after taking a "bath" I expect the alcohol to be completely evaporated in a couple of days at a maximum. The keys are no longer sticking and the board is totally dry on the surface. After again removing the batteries, I flushed over the keys numerous times, pressing them repeatedly with each "wash" before draining the alcohol off the board It worked fine, but many of the keys were sticky/sluggish.īased on numerous posts on other threads/forums, I decided to pour isopropyl alcohol onto the keys that were sticking. I removed the batteries immediately, putting them back in after the keyboard seemed to be dry. I quickly got the excess liquid off of the keyboard. I recently spilled coffee on one of my aluminum wireless keyboards.
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