better disassemble everything

easier to wash & much hell quicker to dry up

now all keyboard is like that, water proof....

Haha..
There isn't a single desktop keyboard in my house that hasn't been washed at least once..its ok as long as you use mild soap and leave it to dry perfectly later (few days is best).

Wokeh, back from dinner. I'll just answer all the questions 1st. It's an Apple Keyboard which my kids have been using. It's extremely dirty n I decided it was time to give it a total overhaul. Those who asked if it will be damaged, no it doesnt get damaged. U hafta make sure to leave it to dry properly n it works perfectly after that.

I've been telling ppl about washing the keyboard this way sooooooo many times but most ppl just think I'm nuts n tokin nonsense. So this time I'm gonna take pictures n document it for every1 to see. N to prove my point, I used a pretty expensive keyboard so that ppl wont say it's just a cheap experiment with rm10 keyboard.

Uploading the pics to Photobucket right now. Will update once they're in the bucket.

phew... at last uncle's home now...

hm... wanna how uncle gonna dry it later. might follow his steps

Haih. Took ages for Photobucket to get those pics in. Must be our dearest Streamyx slowing down on weekend. Anyway, here goes.

A warning 1st. The picture coming up is extremely gross n if u havent eaten dinner or about to go out for supper, u better avoid the 1st pic. It gruesome!





Here's how gruesome a KB gets after a year of usage. Food, dust, hair, n god knows what else ends up inside. I thought of just using compressed air and a microfiber cloth to wipe it clean. Then I decided to pry off a few keys to see how bad it is. I immediately decided that the only way to get it clean was a total bath after seeing how gross it was.














Close up shot of just how gross it is.















So, off I went to the bathroom to mix up a nice soapy bath for my dirty rotten Apple.
















Taped the USB plug to the wall so it stays dry.

















SPLASHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhh!















Scrubiddy scrub scrub. this is to get the surface of the keys back to brand new whiteness.















Leaving it to soak for a while. This is for dissolving all the built up grease inside. I gave it sum vigorous shaking n swishing to make sure the soap water gets into all the parts. I'll just leave it there for a while b4 rinsing it out with clean water.










That's it. It's still in the bucket of water right now. I'll go take it out, rinse it out n prepare it for drying. I'll update again after that.

wah...
sink in the the water tank,
I will try it later with my few year used RM15 keyboard,
but I have to get another keyboard as backup 1st lol...

I cant survive without a computer for one day,
if the keyboard need to dry up for few days,
sure it kills me

i think you should clean your bathroom too!
LOLZ

woah, means all those keyboard that claims to be water resistant is just some lie to attract customer?

That bathroom is not used at all so I cudn b bothered to clean it. It's where I do all the dirty stuff while modding.

uncle ianho, how you going to dry it? put it under the sun?

i guess its all about the drying part...donno gonna take how long and how to make sure everything is 100% dry

I haf plenty of keyboards so this keyboard can take it's own sweet time to dry. I'm in no hurry. I'll just leave it to dry for a week.

uncle gonna make the keyboard go sun bathing or moon bathing ?

I thought keyboard itself got some sort of grease on beneath larger key like space bar and shift keys..

Wouldn't those got washed off and result a bit stiff during typing process ...

or uncle's keyboard is different...

uncle washing his keyboard...while my housemate washing his mobo >_>

This post has been edited by noobianz: Dec 23 2007, 06:59 AM

I think some keyboards do have that, my cheap Logitech has become noticably sitffer since I washed it (no choice then, some ants started to build a colony in my keyboard, believe it or not). Gonna do something bout it soon.

Edit : Must have been half asleep when I typed that..I guess I gave the wrong idea..wat I need to fix are the stiff keys..about the ants, read below.

This post has been edited by lohwenli: Dec 23 2007, 03:21 PM

The Apple kb doesn't haf any grease. Even if the kb uses grease, it's very simple to rectify, after washing just use sum white grease on it.
I actually modded my Apple kb with sum grease on the WASD keys to make them smoother last time. Since my kids dont play FPS games, I'll just leave it alone this time.






Ya actually mobos can cleaned like that too. No problem. The extreme overclockers who do subzero cooling wash their mobos coz it's the only way to clean off the grease from the CPU socket.

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Added on December 23, 2007, 1:00 pm Show us pics of ur ant farm when u open it up.

This post has been edited by ianho: Dec 23 2007, 01:00 PM

Didn't have a digicam then (still don't, cos the ony one I had conked out), and I've cleaned out the keyboard the moment I found them..tossed them outside onto the grass then gave the keyboard a bath to get rid of the stragglers and their leftovers..

Suspected something wrong then when there was always an ant trail on my table, and always got stuff under my keyboard no matter how many times I clean it..suspected something like that but didn't expect to be right when I unscrewed open the keyboard..god..there must have been thousands in there, with all the babies too..

Now I make sure I don't let crumbs fall between the keys anymore. No more little brown ants making their home in my hardware