*hopeful*

[rivendellrose]

I don't suppose any of my wonderful friends have a spare keyboard they want to be rid of at a moderate price????

I (stupidly, moronically, with my typical display of poor judgment) spilled almost an entire instant cappuccinno (how the hell do you spell that, anyway?) on my keyboard last night. I drained it out as fast as I could and dabbed as much as possible from the keys... but it shows signs of still being too sticky to use. Although the good news is that it's getting a lot better as I use it. So maybe this isn't quite the crisis that I thought it was and I really just need to sit around for a while and practice my typing, using all the keys in succession, not just the alphabet ones (which now seem to be mostly unstuck). One of the shift keys is a bit sticky still, though..... damn.

The other good news is that my keyboard smells wonderful... which I guess is a small consolation.

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[ladysonnet.livejournal.com]

Put it in the bathtub and soak it. Seriously. You can clean keyboards that way. Unplug it (duh), soak it, and dry it COMPLETELY (duh, again) before using it again.

I'll admit that I've never tried it (neither has Badger), but from what we've heard, it's true.

Oh, and if it doesn't work, then it's hosed already, right? ;)

Betho

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[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just tried the whole taking it apart and washing it thing--one of my roommates suggested it, and it seems to have worked. We'll see if the poor thing is going to get all stuck again...

If it does, then I've found out that my grandpa got a new keyboard but likes his old one better, so I suspect I can buy the new one off him.

Heh. Come on--I'm compulsive about trying to fix things before I throw them away. Am such a packrat. ;)

[(Anonymous)]

Not sure about bathing the *entire* keyboard, but I once managed to pry all the keys off my keyboard with a butter knife. Most of them just snap on and off, but keys like enter and space have little metal bars inside that make it a bit trickier. After I got them off, I washed them in a bucket of dish soap and let them dry in a towel, snapped them back on, and my keyboard worked fine.

If you can't fix yours, or find somebody with a replacement, you can pick up a perfectly good keyboard at Big/Lots for around ten bucks, if I recall correctly.