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Offline ctm

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Is there a way to clean stained laser-ecthed keycaps?
« on: Sat, 28 March 2015, 15:38:17 »
I tried both soap and alcohol, and neither seem to work. (Also one of my friends told me that alcohol can corrupt UV-coating on laser-etched keycaps. Is this true?)
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Re: Is there a way to clean stained laser-ecthed keycaps?
« Reply #1 on: Sat, 28 March 2015, 16:01:22 »
Technically, yes, by using something to scrub it out. Maybe a stiff brush or a pin? Fluid contact is extremely poor in small environments like etch butters so don't bother with any of them.

If you can tell me what a UV coating is and what it's made of, I might be able to answer the latter question, too :) .
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Re: Is there a way to clean stained laser-ecthed keycaps?
« Reply #2 on: Sat, 28 March 2015, 16:13:13 »
Technically, yes, by using something to scrub it out. Maybe a stiff brush or a pin? Fluid contact is extremely poor in small environments like etch butters so don't bother with any of them.

If you can tell me what a UV coating is and what it's made of, I might be able to answer the latter question, too :) .
I am not sure what it exactly is. It seems to be some coating that helps prevent wear on keycaps. Actually I am not sure if my keycaps have UV coating.
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Re: Is there a way to clean stained laser-ecthed keycaps?
« Reply #3 on: Sat, 28 March 2015, 20:04:07 »
Technically, yes, by using something to scrub it out. Maybe a stiff brush or a pin? Fluid contact is extremely poor in small environments like etch butters so don't bother with any of them.

If you can tell me what a UV coating is and what it's made of, I might be able to answer the latter question, too :) .
I am not sure what it exactly is. It seems to be some coating that helps prevent wear on keycaps. Actually I am not sure if my keycaps have UV coating.
Only thing I can think of is some layer designed to prevent yellowing by filtering out UV radiation. What material it's supposed to be, I don't know though (pretty sure it's not suncream). IPA and EtOH can be somewhat cruel to coatings though, so it's probably best to avoid them if you have a coating of this kind.
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