The hassle of it all
 

I've spent the last half an hour trying in vain to give my keyboard a good clean. With a cat who loves sitting next to you and watching the mouse move across the screen while purring contently - you get the occasional hair fall on the keyboard and into the gaps between the keys. And somehow crumbs of food and lots of other stuff was under all the keys..

So.. I took the venture of trying to clean it out. Firstly I had to unscrew 10 keys and when i did it i found all the technical stuff and the circuit boards etc. And the keypad came off but it had a plate underneath it where all the stuff was which wasn't removable. So I tried to get the stuff up with a vaccum cleaner to no avail. And that didn't work. So I randomly took a deep breath out and lots of stuff came out the keyboard. I'd had a brainwave :)!

So.. my dad had this new electric air pump so i got a little plastic nozzle on the end of it to concentrate the air and it got about half the debris out of it. Still my keyboard remains dirty and I remain an unhappy man :(

So much for microsoft efficiency huh...

They can't make a keyboard that is cleanable. Pathetic :(

- miSt

I know what you mean....

I have been through about 3 keyboards over the last 5 years. Things like ash, food, hair, dust....ack.

Maybe you should get your "Cleanable Keyboard" idea patented, lol. I'd buy one :D

seen a cleanable keyboard cover that is also waterproof :D

Luckily, keys of my keyboard snap into the top half and all the circuitry stays on the bottom half. This leaves nothing but a plastic
piece that I can wash off with warm water.

Now that I look at it, I think it's about time to clean it again.

I love my keyboard though. It's been with me for 2 years now and it's what I have used since I got interested in computers. I can now type ub3r fast and it's all thanks to this glorius keyboard :)

I bet I can type faster than you Dean;):p

This keyboard has been with me since December 2001, so it is getting old too - Lukcily it isn't that dirty, but I bet if I looked in between the keys I would die of a heart attack - I know that there are some crumbs down there;)

Satan

i just got a new keyboard less than a week ago, nice and clean at the moment...give it a few months and it will be pretty dirty though

What one did you get Teapot?:)

It had better not be one of those warped ones;)

Satan

oh its just a normal sucky keyboard that cost a whole 8 bucks lol, needed a quick fix for mine that broke lol

Good - As long as it isn't Bill Gates's idea of a practical joke keyboard, I couldn't care less if it costed $1:p

Satan

Screw keys? Mine snap in place, and I see nothing close to circuits, when I take off my keys, I have spilt coke, and other various fluids in mine, vodka, beer, rum. Works like a charm :) If I didn't know better I would say it loves to get drunk occasionally :p

ok heres my wonderfull experiance with hp keyboards :)

ive had my trusty old hp for about 2 years now. Over those 2 years i never cleaned it once. only the out side like whiping it down. so one day a 2 liter of sierra mist dumps on it. i let it dry it works perfectly again keys are sticky ill wipe it down. get some water. (heres were it gets good.) some how dump water on it :-\ let it dry stick it in the comp and try to type somthing. instead of getting vbulletin.com i get fruooj,,''byon.
so i use an old kb i had with my fisrt dos computer :-\