Has anyone done this!!!!

[Geoff Quickfall]

Glue and keyboards

[born2laser]

I would not try that myself, but the basic idea is not as crazy as it sounds. There is actually a commercial product that I've used at work used to clean surfaces you don't dare touch because they scratch easily and once scratched are spoiled.
See the linked video

https://youtu.be/UpY1Escp1Vs

[gentzel]

Cute. But given that it's pretty easy to remove the keycaps for cleaning any decent keyboard (and that a cheap keyboard is disposable anyway), doesn't seem to be much point.

[Geoff Quickfall]

I am not promoting this, just wondering if anyone has done this.

I too, remove key caps, disassemble boards and etc.

Cheers

[Paul Dale]

White PVA glues like that conduct when set. No way would I let the stuff near any electronic device.

And yes, I learnt that they are conductive the hard way …

[Johnh]

It's interesting, but at work, rather than glue, I find that a cup of coffee poured over a keyboard is a simpler way to get a new one.

[Jeff_Birt]

Now someone really needs to program a 'traveling salesman' solver into their HP calculator to find the most efficient way to glue up (screw up?) their keyboard.

[Geoff Quickfall]

When I was working at the airline I would need to draw up a flight plan at the gate. Dot matrix printer and all that. Noticed the keyboards would not function on some of the keys at various locations we flew to.

One day, a gate agent picked up the keyboard and dropped it from about 2 feet onto the counter, then proceeded to type. I asked why and she told me “that is how I get them to work on all the keys.”

So I picked it up, turned it upside down and gave the keyboard a good shake. Out fell 10 staples! Then I placed the keyboard carefully, back onto the counter.

Found out later that the gate agent got a company award for developing a way to fix the keyboards by turning them upside down and shaking them to remove staples and to not staple over the keyboards!

Also, done the coffee thing, but in my case it was a glass of port on the laptop in business class!

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As an aside, keyboards became so cheap in the 90’s that repairing them for clients became too expensive at my hourly rate. Cheaper to by a new one instead of disassembly, cleaning and re-assembly. But, I did throw a couple in the bathtub with dish detergent and then rinse and dry thoroughly. That worked on the spillage front!

Geoff

[AnnoyedOne]

(Today 05:58 PM)Geoff Quickfall Wrote:  Found out later that the gate agent got a company award for developing a way to fix the keyboards by turning them upside down and shaking them to remove staples...

All I get out of mine is crumbs/dirt

A1

PS: It was a sad day when my mid 90's Honeywell keyboard finally died. Rest in peace my friend...

[Geoff Quickfall]

Hahahah!

[Dave Frederickson]

I use Cyber Clean. You know, the stuff that looks like Yaphit from The Orville.

[striegel]

No, it never occurred to me to try that. I have mostly relied on turning them over and using compressed air to drive out the accumulated crumbs.

Micro Center sells a product labeled as Green Clean by Car Vibez as a material for grabbing the loose hair, dust, and crumbs but it doesn't pick out the deeper material and the crusted-on stuff.

It's a green-tinted kind of gel/putty that tends to stick to my fingers a little too well. In use, I grab an amount about the size of a AA cell and roll it over the keyboard until I'm satisfied then discard that part. It seems pointless to try re-using it once it has been polluted.

BTW, it does a nice job of cleaning the mouse pad too.

Alan