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Title: Keycaps were left white after I cleaned them with denture cleaners.
Post by: romi01 on Sun, 26 July 2015, 23:30:36: I put in some keycaps from an old neXT keyboard into hot water with 3 effervescent denture cleaner tabs with the keycaps. The keycaps (originaly black) turned grayish :(. How could I fix this?
Title: Re: Keycaps were left white after I cleaned them with denture cleaners.
Post by: ImpendingxDoom on Mon, 27 July 2015, 00:46:03: You may be out of luck. If you have any pictures, post them to show what happened. My only suggestion would be to re-dye them, but obviously that isn't a way to reverse any damage.
Title: Re: Keycaps were left white after I cleaned them with denture cleaners.
Post by: rm-rf on Mon, 27 July 2015, 00:58:24: Quote from: romi01 on Sun, 26 July 2015, 23:30:36
I put in some keycaps from an old neXT keyboard into hot water with 3 effervescent denture cleaner tabs with the keycaps. The keycaps (originaly black) turned grayish :(. How could I fix this?

Well... At least it wasn't a BeOS keyboard.
NeXT was garbage anyways...
Title: Re: Keycaps were left white after I cleaned them with denture cleaners.
Post by: romi01 on Mon, 27 July 2015, 01:00:40: This is how they look, they look a bit better irl (potato camera ftw), but they still look whiteish. (http://[attach=1])
Title: Re: Keycaps were left white after I cleaned them with denture cleaners.
Post by: rowdy on Mon, 27 July 2015, 05:44:38: I've used denture tablets lots of times, but thinking about it, they were all whiteish keycaps.

You say "hot" water - how not? My denture tablets indicate warm water should be used.
Title: Re: Keycaps were left white after I cleaned them with denture cleaners.
Post by: jerr on Mon, 27 July 2015, 22:51:18: Wow that sucks :(
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Post by: Dreamre on Wed, 29 July 2015, 23:16:48: How long did you have them in for?
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Post by: pr0ximity on Thu, 30 July 2015, 05:40:58: Maybe a silly question, but did you rinse them? They tend to leave a bit of residue.
Title: Re: Keycaps were left white after I cleaned them with denture cleaners.
Post by: rowdy on Thu, 30 July 2015, 05:46:03: Quote from: pr0ximity on Thu, 30 July 2015, 05:40:58
Maybe a silly question, but did you rinse them? They tend to leave a bit of residue.

I have not seen residue, even with very dirty caps.

Just a nice minty smell :)
Title: Re: Keycaps were left white after I cleaned them with denture cleaners.
Post by: CPTBadAss on Thu, 30 July 2015, 06:53:46: Hot water? I've always used cold tap water. Never warm or hot.
Title: Re: Keycaps were left white after I cleaned them with denture cleaners.
Post by: azhdar on Thu, 30 July 2015, 07:04:14: I use warm water + dental tab + dish soap and I never had any residues even on wob caps.
Title: Re: Keycaps were left white after I cleaned them with denture cleaners.
Post by: rowdy on Thu, 30 July 2015, 18:39:22: Quote from: CPTBadAss on Thu, 30 July 2015, 06:53:46
Hot water? I've always used cold tap water. Never warm or hot.

I'm pretty sure my denture tabs say to use warm water. Which I do - warm tap water.