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Offline CaesarAZealad

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How to get glitter off a keycap?
« on: Sat, 18 February 2023, 19:55:17 »
Ladies, Gents, Enbies, I have a problem.
Bought an AEK with oranges, as it's basically my dream vintage board, in in the process of cleaning it up and prepping for a wax mod i noticed something foul.



The previous owner had slathered the power button in glitter glue, or god forbid, glittery nail polish.
Any way I can get this off, or should I make peace with my god?
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Re: How to get glitter off a keycap?
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 19 February 2023, 12:41:40 »
Gave it an overnight alcohol bath, took some scraping but finally got it all off.
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Offline KeyCapQueen

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Re: How to get glitter off a keycap?
« Reply #2 on: Tue, 21 February 2023, 08:37:57 »
If alcohol doesnt work maybe try nail polish remover?
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Offline Findecanor

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Re: How to get glitter off a keycap?
« Reply #3 on: Tue, 21 February 2023, 08:56:34 »
Quote from: KeyCapQueen on Tue, 21 February 2023, 08:37:57
If alcohol doesnt work maybe try nail polish remover?
Apparently it did work. ;)

Just a word of caution: "Nail polish remover" would most likely damage keycaps made of ABS.
It would probably have worked in this case though, because the AEK's keycaps are PBT (except for the space bar which is ABS).
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