Removing keycaps from an Apple Extended Keyboard II?

[spremino]

I was reading a cleaning guide for the Apple Extended Keyboard II, when I stumbled on this paragraph:

One other thing that didn’t change: the key caps are not easily removed, so my recommendation doesn’t change. Don’t attempt to remove the key caps.(source: http://lowendmac.com/2006/apples-extended-keyboard-ii-sequel-to-a-legend/)

Is this really the case?  Or did the author ignore the existence of keycap pullers?  Thank you.

[romevi]

I have a set, and many others have sets to use on other boards. It seems totally fine to remove them.

[rowdy]

Probably ignorance of wire keycap pullers.

[Findecanor]

You have to be more careful when pulling Alps keycaps than Cherry keycaps. The Alps stems often sit tighter and break more easily.

[mike52787]

I was reading a cleaning guide for the Apple Extended Keyboard II, when I stumbled on this paragraph:

One other thing that didn’t change: the key caps are not easily removed, so my recommendation doesn’t change. Don’t attempt to remove the key caps.(source: http://lowendmac.com/2006/apples-extended-keyboard-ii-sequel-to-a-legend/)

Is this really the case?  Or did the author ignore the existence of keycap pullers?  Thank you.

I think the idea of not removing the caps is for people without a keycap puller, if you pry off really tight alps keycaps(ones that havent been removed before) it is really easy to break the stem off inside the slider.

[Moistgun]

I assume they have just broken alot of caps. I took mine off a number of times with a cap puller.  no problem. just be careful.

[emdude]

Yes, as others have pointed out, they are difficult to remove so you need to be careful.  You will need to pull straight up with a key cap puller to remove them safely.