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Title: What do you use for your Keyboard dust cover?
Post by: dwk396 on Sun, 12 July 2015, 22:57:46: Here is my dust cover for hhkb.
(http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/07/12/eb9a14d6b312a2e915bfd394c314da11.jpg)

(http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/07/12/d544107b09d10b21b6c750451b30061b.jpg)

(http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/07/12/84ed6e91c371982c342f7873d5543e42.jpg)
Title: Re: What do you use for your Keyboard dust cover?
Post by: rowdy on Sun, 12 July 2015, 23:36:06: Tea towel.
Title: Re: What do you use for your Keyboard dust cover?
Post by: hwood34 on Mon, 13 July 2015, 00:28:32: Life is too short to worry about dust
Title: Re: What do you use for your Keyboard dust cover?
Post by: skuko on Mon, 13 July 2015, 01:04:20: default filco dust cover :)
Title: Re: What do you use for your Keyboard dust cover?
Post by: dwk396 on Mon, 13 July 2015, 01:08:44: Quote from: hwood34 on Mon, 13 July 2015, 00:28:32
Life is too short to worry about dust

Life is too short so I want to keep things nice and neat....
Title: Re: What do you use for your Keyboard dust cover?
Post by: rowdy on Mon, 13 July 2015, 01:52:07: Quote from: dwk396 on Mon, 13 July 2015, 01:08:44

Quote from: hwood34 on Mon, 13 July 2015, 00:28:32
Life is too short to worry about dust

Life is too short so I want to keep things nice and neat....

Yeah, life is too short to spend time dusting keyboards all the time :p
Title: Re: What do you use for your Keyboard dust cover?
Post by: fanpeople on Mon, 13 July 2015, 02:03:18: That is one expensive dust cover. I use a pillow case to throw over.
Title: Re: What do you use for your Keyboard dust cover?
Post by: Air tree on Mon, 13 July 2015, 02:08:47: I don't use one at the moment, but I really should. I can go pick up one on elitekeyboards for like $15.

I'll probably order the one for the HHKB when I order my landing pads...
Title: Re: What do you use for your Keyboard dust cover?
Post by: seville57 on Mon, 13 July 2015, 06:58:18: Duckys own dust cover.
Title: Re: What do you use for your Keyboard dust cover?
Post by: Magna224 on Mon, 13 July 2015, 08:18:39: My focus 2001 has a stock dust cover ;)
Title: Re: What do you use for your Keyboard dust cover?
Post by: CPTBadAss on Mon, 13 July 2015, 08:30:19: I use that little rubber sheet that comes with some stock boards like Leopolds.
Title: Re: What do you use for your Keyboard dust cover?
Post by: Giorgio on Mon, 13 July 2015, 09:24:52: I had the same keyboard for five years and I did never cover it. Maybe I work in a clean environment, or maybe I type so fast that it cleans itself with the turbulence :thumb:
The simple idea of a dust cover makes me cringe. I'm not my granma.
Title: Re: What do you use for your Keyboard dust cover?
Post by: chyros on Mon, 13 July 2015, 09:28:03: My 5161 came with one, I made one for my KB-101A, and my FK-2001 has a built-in one. That's about it xD .
Title: Re: What do you use for your Keyboard dust cover?
Post by: Data on Mon, 13 July 2015, 09:32:22: Dust cover?

They're called "hands".
Title: Re: What do you use for your Keyboard dust cover?
Post by: Giorgio on Mon, 13 July 2015, 09:32:34: Well, dust happens also when you use it. An unused keyboard needs to be cleaned less that a keyboard used for many hours a day. Today you worry about the dust, tomorrow you'll worry about the shiny keycaps, the day after tomorrow you won't use your keyboard to preserve it spotless. :))

Quote from: rowdy on Mon, 13 July 2015, 01:52:07
Quote from: dwk396 on Mon, 13 July 2015, 01:08:44

Quote from: hwood34 on Mon, 13 July 2015, 00:28:32
Life is too short to worry about dust

Life is too short so I want to keep things nice and neat....

Yeah, life is too short to spend time dusting keyboards all the time :p
Title: Re: What do you use for your Keyboard dust cover?
Post by: Giorgio on Mon, 13 July 2015, 09:33:25: Good one. :thumb:

Quote from: Data on Mon, 13 July 2015, 09:32:22
Dust cover?

They're called "hands".
Title: Re: What do you use for your Keyboard dust cover?
Post by: davkol on Mon, 13 July 2015, 10:30:32: I put my QFR in a dust-free closet, whenever I'm not using it (99 % of time).

My TypeMatrix 2030 is always dressed in a silicone skin that prevents dust, hairs, spills,… from getting under the scissor switches and protects keycaps from sweat.

The ErgoDox usually sits on the tray, but I put a neoprene case (that I use to store the keyboard for traveling) or a mousepad upside down (because I don't want dust grinding between the mousepad or mouse feet) on it.
Title: Re: What do you use for your Keyboard dust cover?
Post by: animal on Mon, 13 July 2015, 10:44:43: I use a small towel I got from a bar :)
Title: Re: What do you use for your Keyboard dust cover?
Post by: EscapeVelocity on Mon, 13 July 2015, 15:40:08: Velour Cloth
Title: Re: What do you use for your Keyboard dust cover?
Post by: SpAmRaY on Mon, 13 July 2015, 15:43:05: Another entry for the stock ducky plastic cover.

I bought a piece of acrylic with intentions of making a cover but never got around to it.
Title: Re: What do you use for your Keyboard dust cover?
Post by: EscapeVelocity on Mon, 13 July 2015, 15:46:17: Most of the time, I dont bother.
Title: Re: What do you use for your Keyboard dust cover?
Post by: Melvang on Mon, 13 July 2015, 16:30:48: I use my desk. My keyboard tray slides under and has a front that flips up.

If my keyboard sat on my desk, I wouldn't bother as my hands are rarely "office" clean anyway due to work.
Title: Re: What do you use for your Keyboard dust cover?
Post by: dwk396 on Mon, 13 July 2015, 16:41:23: Ah...Okay....man... everytime I see some dirt/dust or some particles between keycaps, I am like "FUUUDDGEE I HAVE TO GET THAT OUT OF THERE"
Maybe I should just worry less about it.
I used to put a towel on top of my keyboards but I saw more dusts or whatyoumacallit that fell from the towel.
Title: Re: What do you use for your Keyboard dust cover?
Post by: Leslieann on Mon, 13 July 2015, 17:37:14: My keyboard is such a b*dass, it repels dust.

(Just don't look under the keycaps.)
Title: Re: What do you use for your Keyboard dust cover?
Post by: demik on Mon, 13 July 2015, 19:27:35: you seem to have broken your spacebar by putting that ****ty leopold on top of it
Title: Re: What do you use for your Keyboard dust cover?
Post by: CaplockJack on Mon, 13 July 2015, 19:37:42: None
Title: Re: What do you use for your Keyboard dust cover?
Post by: dwk396 on Mon, 13 July 2015, 21:23:54: Quote from: demik on Mon, 13 July 2015, 19:27:35
you seem to have broken your spacebar by putting that ****ty leopold on top of it

lol maybe
Title: Re: What do you use for your Keyboard dust cover?
Post by: Macsmasher on Wed, 15 July 2015, 00:23:46: I use the keyboard roofs from EK. Great for keeping out the dust, dog hair, etc. You don't realize just how much crap gets in there until you pull the keycaps. I have better things to do than clean out my keyboards.
Title: Re: What do you use for your Keyboard dust cover?
Post by: ynrozturk on Wed, 15 July 2015, 20:04:51: The covers that I got from Elite Keyboards. Looks and works great.
Title: Re: What do you use for your Keyboard dust cover?
Post by: dwk396 on Wed, 15 July 2015, 20:12:04: Quote from: Macsmasher on Wed, 15 July 2015, 00:23:46
I use the keyboard roofs from EK. Great for keeping out the dust, dog hair, etc. You don't realize just how much crap gets in there until you pull the keycaps. I have better things to do than clean out my keyboards.

Quote from: ynrozturk on Wed, 15 July 2015, 20:04:51
The covers that I got from Elite Keyboards. Looks and works great.

maybe I should do that....
Title: Re: What do you use for your Keyboard dust cover?
Post by: SquawkVFR on Wed, 15 July 2015, 22:47:25: You guys must live in much dustier places than me, I don't cover mine and never really had a dust problem...
Title: Re: What do you use for your Keyboard dust cover?
Post by: Sencha on Thu, 16 July 2015, 05:44:43: Same mine doesn't get dusty. No cover.
Title: Re: What do you use for your Keyboard dust cover?
Post by: dwk396 on Thu, 16 July 2015, 06:41:04: Quote from: SquawkVFR on Wed, 15 July 2015, 22:47:25
You guys must live in much dustier places than me, I don't cover mine and never really had a dust problem...

Quote from: Sencha on Thu, 16 July 2015, 05:44:43
Same mine doesn't get dusty. No cover.

I live in a place where the land became so deserted like the movie interstellar.
Title: Re: What do you use for your Keyboard dust cover?
Post by: Shaussman on Thu, 16 July 2015, 07:45:57: Quote from: Macsmasher on Wed, 15 July 2015, 00:23:46
You don't realize just how much crap gets in there until you pull the keycaps

Most of that crap is my hair that gets in there when I'm using it or a couple of crumbs from when I have to eat at my keyboard or that sort of thing.

I don't bother covering my keyboard, dust really isn't an issue even in my dusty as hell dorm room.
Title: Re: What do you use for your Keyboard dust cover?
Post by: quake4mhg on Fri, 17 July 2015, 00:19:15: We gotta be creative ;D

(http://i.imgur.com/X4BZVJg.jpg)
Title: Re: What do you use for your Keyboard dust cover?
Post by: Doyniish on Fri, 17 July 2015, 12:14:40: Quote from: Giorgio on Mon, 13 July 2015, 09:24:52
The simple idea of a dust cover makes me cringe. I'm not my granma.

Same with me. My grandma had a serious problem with that type of thing :eek: