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Today while I was at work, one of the cats puked on my keyboard. Now the t and the c and the b don’t work. Maybe they’ll come back later if we’re lucky. Fortunately we have an iPad and that was safely tucked away, safe from the fluids of our pets.
UPDATE: Wednesday morning. Now one of the keys gets stuck, creating an interesting percussive beat. However, a gentle pat on the keyboard stops that. The keys that didn’t work yesterday still don’t work, and as a bonus, the e now doesn’t work either.

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  1. Salvelinas Fontinalis's avatar
    Salvelinas Fontinalis

    keyboards arent all that hard to clean. The keys are basically just pushed down and friction fit over a peg that can move up and down. On every keyboard I have seen you can remove a key by simply grabbing it with a needlenose pliers and firmly but slowly pulling the key straight up. There are no electronics in the key itself it is just a hunk of plastic so you can run water on it or use a bit of Fantastic or some such cleaner. There arent really electronics under the key either that stuff is safely hidden away under where the peg depresses inro. So you can quite safely remove a dozen keys, clean up the area under them and wash the keys. Just be sure you write down the sequence of where the keys were before you start removing them. The only real caveat here is once you start removing some keys you will be surprised at the amount of dust, cat hairs and assorted bits of crud that have found their way under the keys and you likely will have an urge to remove them all and clean up the whole thing properly. This takes an hour or so. To replace a key after cleaning you just push it back down over the peg firmly until it won’t seat any deeper and it is done.

    • Eugene Knapik's avatar

      Unfortunately, it seems the cat puke nuked my keyboard. It got worse and worse and now does not respond at all and cleaning doesn’t help. I replaced it with a wireless one I can now tuck away in a puke-proof area when I’m not using it.

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