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geekhack Community => Keyboard Keycaps => Topic started by: C5Allroad on Wed, 05 February 2014, 14:34:36
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So to clean my orange caps for my shine… I thought of something. I cleaned my watch last night of white gunk that built up over 5 months and now looks new. My caps on the other have the legends are now brown. Would a tooth brush and warm soap and water work and not scratch the cap?
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That would work. Can also just soak the caps in dishwashing liquid or denture tabs.
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Ok great thanks!
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That would work. Can also just soak the caps in dishwashing liquid or denture tabs.
I do exactly this, but in combination. get some hot water in a little case where all keycaps fit in. throw in the caps and add a denture tab and dishwashing liquid. Let it soak for about half an hour.
After that you can clean the dirt that still sticks on the keycaps easily off with an old toothbrush.
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You would need to add some of these:
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I clean my caps by soaking them in dishwashing liquid for a night and then scrubbing them with a tooth brush for good measure. I do the same with the case if that thing has become nasty.
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My concern with shiny ABS is that it would be scratchy and paint chipping like it did on my K90...
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A spoonful of powdered laundry detergent and a quarter teaspoon of Oxi-Clean in a liter of hot water for 10-20 minutes has been all that is needed to clean many dozens of sets of keys for me, with absolutely no additional scrubbing work. (edit: adhesive residue is a special case and may take extra effort)
Rinse well and sling the water out of the keys, individually, by hand, and lay them out on a T-shirt. They will be dry in another 10-20 minutes.
You guys make this tremendously harder and more time-consuming than it needs to be.
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Wow thanks! Was about to start pulling caps to go scrub. But I think I should go to Publix and get some supplies then.