16 Feb
2014
16 Feb
'14
12:43 p.m.
Finally, my own tip for cleaning the keycaps (and the
bodies, if
necessary): take them all off; put them into a cotton carrier bag (such
Make sure you have a diagram of where they all go. And don't assume
there's one in the manual. I have a bitter memory of remoing all the
keycaps, cleaning them, and then finding that the manual showed only a US
layout and I had a UK layout (or something). Yes, most of them are
obvious, but...
as German souvenir shops and similar places provide);
tie the neck of
the bag securely; put the bag, full of key caps, in the washing machine
with your woollens / delicates. Brings them up a treat!
I think I would be worried that my knot would come undone and some of the
keycaps would end up in the washing machine drain pump.
What I do is pull all the keycaps, then take them one at a time give the
ma squirt of propan-2-ol and wipe them by hand. I doesn't take tht long
to do an entire keyboard.
-tony