I bought a beautiful, white Cherry keyboard with a working navigation pad today. I then proceeded to disassemble it and sped 1.5 hours removing, washing and drying each individual key. No, I'm not obsessive-compulsive. I just like my new keyboard to be clean... The keys were so pretty.. I was so impatient that I put them in the oven to dry for *just a second* and then got distracted. 5 minutes later I was horrified to smell my melting keys. I now have a spotlessly clean white keyboard with Cherry black switches, a working touch-pad, and*Sob* a melted mass of white plastic.Oh man! That's a shame. I know how it can happen though. I burned up two oven top tea kettles that way so finally bought a Hamilton-Beach that has an integrated automagic heating element that shuts off by itself. And once I tried to blow some crap out of a laptop keyboard with a hair dryer, got too close and slightly melted the front of some function keys. Some lessons, such as patience and caution, apparently need to be relearned periodically, :sad:
I was so impatient that I put them in the oven to dry for *just a second* and then got distracted. 5 minutes later I was horrified to smell my melting keys.I have done the same. Not with a keyboard, but with another item made of plastic. It can happen quite fast.
Sorry you damaged your keys, but it reminds me of this:
Is that the one where Kramer ends up with Cubans sleeping in his dresser drawers?
Is that the one where Kramer ends up with Cubans sleeping in his dresser drawers?
That was Japanese businessmen...
And the "Cubans" were really Dominicans :)
This thread needs to be retitled: "Why boys need parents..."
:)
There was something painfully obvious about the thread title...
Tasteless Literary Joke timeShow Image(http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2bniylElg1qz4ax2o1_500.png)
Hey, that's me as a child!
I don't get it.
There was something painfully obvious about the thread title...I've been drying things in my oven for years. This is the first time I've destroyed something, and the cause of that was me getting distracted, hitting the wrong button, and leaving the room. Based on my experience, the risk that something will go wrong outweighs the faster drying times of drying things in the oven. As you can see from the comments, there may still be a few people who think that using the oven as a dryer is a good idea.
When we got bored in the dorm....
Depends.
Definitely keep it under 100 deg celcius and 2 minutes though.
I've always considered the dishwasher a horrible idea, for a number of reasons. At least with the oven, you have control over the temperature... Unless you make a mistake that is.
So, even with all of the nutcases on this forum who have 20 keyboards and are willing to spend +$150 on a custom set of keys, none of you have an extra set of Cherry keys sitting around? Your just going to let a poor, innocent, clean Cherry keyboard sit around unused and unfulfilled.:frown:
I noticed my programmable Gateway2000 Anykey board has the same keys. I'd never be willing to take them of of that though. It's such a fantastic keyboard.
You can salvage some Cherry-compatible keys off some rubber domes. I know that most Gateway2000 keyboards use Cherry-compatible keys.
Hmm, intreting... Anyone have any list of which boards have compatible keys for MX switches?
Well, no list per se, but after peeking at the latest arrival, I do know that the keycaps on the NIB chicony 5191 (white cherry clones) I got for about $22 shipped from here do fit (almost better than the originals actually - tighter, anyway) on the Adesso (real cherry blues). Is that helpful?