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Offline romi01

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Keycaps were left white after I cleaned them with denture cleaners.
« 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?
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Offline ImpendingxDoom

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Re: Keycaps were left white after I cleaned them with denture cleaners.
« Reply #1 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.
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Re: Keycaps were left white after I cleaned them with denture cleaners.
« Reply #2 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...
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Offline romi01

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Re: Keycaps were left white after I cleaned them with denture cleaners.
« Reply #3 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. 106633-0" alt="" class="bbc_img" />
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Re: Keycaps were left white after I cleaned them with denture cleaners.
« Reply #4 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.
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Re: Keycaps were left white after I cleaned them with denture cleaners.
« Reply #5 on: Mon, 27 July 2015, 22:51:18 »
Wow that sucks  :(
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Re: Keycaps were left white after I cleaned them with denture cleaners.
« Reply #6 on: Wed, 29 July 2015, 23:16:48 »
How long did you have them in for?
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Re: Keycaps were left white after I cleaned them with denture cleaners.
« Reply #7 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.
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Re: Keycaps were left white after I cleaned them with denture cleaners.
« Reply #8 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 :)
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Re: Keycaps were left white after I cleaned them with denture cleaners.
« Reply #9 on: Thu, 30 July 2015, 06:53:46 »
Hot water? I've always used cold tap water. Never warm or hot.
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Re: Keycaps were left white after I cleaned them with denture cleaners.
« Reply #10 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.
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Re: Keycaps were left white after I cleaned them with denture cleaners.
« Reply #11 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.
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