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[eye_of_a_cat]

Given how much of my life involves coffee and keyboards, you'd think they'd get on a bit better.

Hopefully the keyboard will make a full recovery - these things are bastards to take apart completely - but it's not out of the woods yet. I can't really afford a new one. (And no, I'm not typing on it now!)

Could've been Coke, I suppose...

ETA: IT LIVES. And now it's all clean, too. I'd forgotten it was this colour.

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[heywood.livejournal.com]

From experience, rubbing alcohol and a box of Q-tips works comparatively well at cleaning keyboards. Apply it with one Q-tip, then let the alcohol soak for thirty seconds to a minute. Once that's done, if the Q-tip's not too nasty, use it or a clean one to wipe up the goo.

It takes up fingerprint oils, stuff like that, and you can get down in between the keys. Of course, the keyboard I used it on was thirteen years old.

[eye-of-a-cat.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It's worth a go with this one, I think - hellish to take apart (I ended up with blisters on both hands from the screwdriver), but it's got so much gunk in its casing and (partly) under the key membranes now that it needs a real clean-out, inside and out.