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Offline lROOl

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How to Clean?
« on: Tue, 03 April 2012, 17:50:24 »
I have a white spacebar from WASD that has some marks on it what is the best way to clean this?
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Offline jblack801

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How to Clean?
« Reply #1 on: Tue, 03 April 2012, 18:12:00 »
Check the wiki good sir.

http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=All+About+Keys

There's a section down the way about cleaning your keycaps.
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« Reply #2 on: Tue, 03 April 2012, 18:28:46 »
If you are OK with removing it, I use a variety of laundry products including powdered detergent and "Biz" or "Oxi-Clean" which have cleaned many hundreds of keys and only failed to clean 2 or 3 after an hour soak in a strong solution.

If not removing the key, I use denatured alcohol on a Q-tip, and if that doesn't get it, try a white vinyl eraser (eg "Magic Rub") but gently.

Lastly, carefully, if it is some sort of adhesive-related product, using a citrus oil organic solvent or naptha (old-fashioned "lighter fluid") might work, but these last 2 are harsh, and I can't guarantee that they won't hurt the plastic.

Try each one gently, slowly, and remove all the residue after each attempt.
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Offline lROOl

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« Reply #3 on: Tue, 03 April 2012, 18:53:04 »
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If you are OK with removing it, I use a variety of laundry products including powdered detergent and "Biz" or "Oxi-Clean" which have cleaned many hundreds of keys and only failed to clean 2 or 3 after an hour soak in a strong solution.

If not removing the key, I use denatured alcohol on a Q-tip, and if that doesn't get it, try a white vinyl eraser (eg "Magic Rub") but gently.

Lastly, carefully, if it is some sort of adhesive-related product, using a citrus oil organic solvent or naptha (old-fashioned "lighter fluid") might work, but these last 2 are harsh, and I can't guarantee that they won't hurt the plastic.

Try each one gently, slowly, and remove all the residue after each attempt.

thank you sir, ill try the oxi clean tomorrow and let you know how it works. Should prob remove all the caps while i am at it and clean the board out.
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« Reply #4 on: Tue, 03 April 2012, 20:20:42 »
Pull all the keys and dump them in a bowl of a liter of hot water and a teaspoon each of laundry detergent powder and oxi-clean. An hour is almost sure to make them squeaky clean. Scrubbing with a sponge is second and the eraser is last. If you go the solvent route, wash again in soapy water and rinse well.

Vacuum out the interior and wipe up the dust with a q-tip. Try to keep the blowing to a minimum and do it upside-down and last, getting any dust into the switches is what you want to avoid.
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"Starting in 2011, the deficits again started to shrink. During Obama’s term  the deficit was reduced by $900 Billion  before finally in 2015 the GOP managed to wrangle a “reconciliation” bill out of Obama where he again cut corporate taxes, as well as made permanent some of George W. Bush’s original tax cuts. This is the year everything reversed. Before this, under Clinton, Bush and Obama the deficit in almost every year was gradually decreasing. The balance we had of taxes and the economy was bringing the deficit down, the money coming in was slowly catching up with the money going out until 2015. Trump’s subsequent tax cut has continued the new trend even after the rest of Bush’s cuts have since expired. Obama had an average GDP of 2.3%, with 11.6 million jobs created and unemployment peaking at 10% in 2009, then falling to 4.3% in 2016. If we had continued on that downward deficit track, we would have again reached balance and another surplus in 2017-2018.
– Frank V Walton 2025-07-01
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