I like my keys shiny and greasy. That's my natural lubricant. Helps me go faster.
Have ya'll noticed Peeps @ Wurk, their keebs are greasy, there's always that gross shiny tackiness.
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Tp4 recommends, 5% alcohol + 95% desalinated water cleanser + quality brand paper towel (the floofy kind is best, like Viva)
NE higher on the alcohol, you risk damage to the plastic finish. But you still need some for degreasing.
What do you guys use for cleaning ?
I like my keys shiny and greasy. That's my natural lubricant. Helps me go faster.
I use a denture tab and warm water, it's been working pretty well for me. How's it compare to the 5% alcohol?
I usually dunk the whole case and all of the caps into some warm soapy water overnight.
I use a denture tab and warm water, it's been working pretty well for me. How's it compare to the 5% alcohol?
Well even with 5% , there's some manual rubbing required.
I haven't tried denture tabs, don't have dentures. does it require any manual scrubbing?
We don't use anything
Time to get outemu blue keyboard because wireless stuff does not work with our 2008 hp compaqs.
Still can't believe that they are using dual core for solidworks.
I usually dunk the whole case and all of the caps into some warm soapy water overnight.
Every time I buy a used keyboard, at the minimum, I pull all the key caps and wash them in soapy water. A spoonful of powdered laundry detergent (plus maybe a spoonful of Oxy-something) in hot water for 10-20 minutes will do just as much as an overnight soak.
I open the case and wash the shell in the kitchen sink, and how I clean the internals depends on what they are. At the minimum vacuum and blow out the board chow, and then usually 10 minutes with alcohol on Q-tips and paper towels.
Once "somebody else's" germs and dirt are gone, I can go a lot longer between cleanings, especially since I wash my hands frequently and there are no smokers or pets in the house.
if I want it to dry really fast, or leave it all out under a fan
I'm lazy, I like to just let it soak, rinse it off (maybe in a strainer), and unless there's actually anything left on it (usually not after an overnight soak) either rinse it again in alcohol if I want it to dry really fast, or leave it all out under a fan and come back again in another day or two. Saves me time in the long run, with some patience.
My impatience trumps my laziness. I put key caps in a mixing bowl with the soap and how water for 10-20 minutes. At least a couple of times I stir them vigorously, then rinse them by pouring them through a colander, back into the mixing bowl with fresh water, back through the colander, about 3 times.
Then I lay a T-shirt on the bed and pick up the caps one by one, and sling the water out of them. When I am finished with that, I turn them all face up on the T-shirt and let the undersides drain for another 10-20 minutes.
At that point, they are ready to re-install in under an hour. I washed the case and cleaned the internals while I was soaking the caps.
A day or two? Jeez, I just shake most of the water off into a towel then let it sit for a few hours.
To use a community keyboard is a pretty low level position. I am surprised you are the OP TP4? Since I would figure you have a pretty good job.
Unless you mean just spying on your subordinates. Yeah, people are gross. I would tell them to take a shower first! Most people know you can put keeb in dishwasher. So long s it is 100% dry before you use it.
I use dish soap and water in an ultrasonic cleaner. Then I dry them with a table fan overnight. If there's something particularly gross on them, I'll use alcohol on a Q-Tip to wipe it off. I also use alcohol and Q-Tips to clean the plate between the switches.
I use dish soap and water in an ultrasonic cleaner. Then I dry them with a table fan overnight. If there's something particularly gross on them, I'll use alcohol on a Q-Tip to wipe it off. I also use alcohol and Q-Tips to clean the plate between the switches.
I use dish soap and water in an ultrasonic cleaner. Then I dry them with a table fan overnight. If there's something particularly gross on them, I'll use alcohol on a Q-Tip to wipe it off. I also use alcohol and Q-Tips to clean the plate between the switches.
dish soap can make plastic cloudy, so double check your colors.
Never heard of that. What types of plastic? I haven't seen dish soap hurt anything.
I use dish soap and water in an ultrasonic cleaner. Then I dry them with a table fan overnight. If there's something particularly gross on them, I'll use alcohol on a Q-Tip to wipe it off. I also use alcohol and Q-Tips to clean the plate between the switches.
dish soap can make plastic cloudy, so double check your colors.
Isopropyl alcohol does create cloudy spots on my Coolermaster's case in certain spots though.
just to feel that fresh clean touch my caps
just to feel that fresh clean touch my caps
I am not a freak but I like to keep clean.
Caps that have been worn slick just feel wrong to me - even it they are perfectly clean - they just feel greasy.
Users as my current workplace are of the idea that bothering IT for any reason short of a fire is a bad idea, so we have some of the grossest peripherals I've ever seen in use. I've been shocked that some people even touch some of their boards.
It's become one of the ways I've met people in my new job, offer them one of the 100-200 boards we throw away every month because instead of letting them go to waste in a brand new box, at least hand them a clean one. They are often the same silver and black HP garbage that come with all their computers, but at least this one is a new piece of garbage.
I really wish we'd make this a regular thing, I hate seeing the wastage.
Users as my current workplace are of the idea that bothering IT for any reason short of a fire is a bad idea, so we have some of the grossest peripherals I've ever seen in use. I've been shocked that some people even touch some of their boards.
It's become one of the ways I've met people in my new job, offer them one of the 100-200 boards we throw away every month because instead of letting them go to waste in a brand new box, at least hand them a clean one. They are often the same silver and black HP garbage that come with all their computers, but at least this one is a new piece of garbage.
I really wish we'd make this a regular thing, I hate seeing the wastage.
What? Seriously. At the very least, donate them or something. There's no reason to throw away brand new boards, even cheap OEM rubber domes.
It's been apparently an on and off thing at the college I work at now for years, they once upon a time did, but then thought they could be liable if some went "missing" on the way to the schools they were being donated to. Which reeks of BS to me.
Nowadays it's lost in the Bureaucracy of the school, as just another thing that needs to be addressed. They only recently came around to selling older machines instead of throwing them into boxes and being sent to a recycler.
I wish I wasn't kidding. :-[
I think it was the rise of mass electronic recycler/sellers here in Arizona that changed that, since I was told at one point that became a thing.
I would be all about those places, if it weren't a case of: They sell stuff, but usually in bulk, so if I wanted a computer, I'd be buying a pallet of 30 of them, instead of just one. The price may even be great, but I couldn't store 30 if I dreamed.
I did get a Mac Pro that way though, and I am quite happy with that purchase. They of course never have keyboards. :( (I was hoping since they recycle from other business, besides my institution.)
I'm actually now looking around my city for recyclers like yours, I know that one exists, but they are trying their best to hide. I'm living in Sahuarita AZ now, so I can get up to Tucson more, which means more recyclers maybe! :D
thought they could be liable if some went "missing" on the way to the schools they were being donated to. Which reeks of BS to me.
anything that could be considered an asset of any kind. It all gets recycled.
It is common practice to seek verifiable "chain of custody" which ensures that materials are destroyed if that is the stated intent or agreement, precisely so that "double-dipping" would not take place.
A few months ago I watched as thousands of dollars' worth of tools and fasteners were carted off as scrap to be destroyed for $0.04 per pound. [A new vendor had paid for our entire existing stock from another vendor so that they could re-stock our warehouse with their stuff.] I begged to be able to buy some of it myself (a $10 bill would have bought more than my van would hold) but it had to be inventoried and verified as destroyed.
It is common practice to seek verifiable "chain of custody" which ensures that materials are destroyed if that is the stated intent or agreement, precisely so that "double-dipping" would not take place.
A few months ago I watched as thousands of dollars' worth of tools and fasteners were carted off as scrap to be destroyed for $0.04 per pound. [A new vendor had paid for our entire existing stock from another vendor so that they could re-stock our warehouse with their stuff.] I begged to be able to buy some of it myself (a $10 bill would have bought more than my van would hold) but it had to be inventoried and verified as destroyed.
I know for sure that recyclers destroy literally nothing that they think that they can resell. I know of our hardware going to a recycler, who then sold it to another recycler, who then ... most likely resold it to consumers. I know the guys that run that place though, they would destroy all data. I do know that.
I do know that there is something like this governing what my institution does as well. I don't think it's completely ironclad as I've seen exceptions, But dear lord, sometimes I'm just in awe of the money wastage.
Damn do those exceptions get your hopes up that things will change with it too.