Remove batteries. Remove keys. Put the keys in a laundry lingerie bag.  Run both through DW.  Drain. Seal in a kitchen sized plastic bag with a couple of cups of rice in mesh bags for a day or so.  Remove. Replace keys.  Use.  The rice will absorb residual moisture.  Works for computer mice as well.

Edited February 24, 20233 yr by fppilot

Removed several of the keys with ease. Cherry MX key pads just lift off. And... yuk! a bit more coffee gunk under there than I expected.

So... did isopropyl alcohol do a  good job of cleaning it off?

Nope! MR Charlie, moderator extraordinaire, was correct. I used a small quantity of soap and water on the end of a Q-Tip. Still didn't come off too easily, but got it off in the end.

The gunk under there was just aesthetic of course, didn't like the idea of the sticky stuff hiding away. The real Issue was that three of the Cherry MX key switches themselves were not operating as smoothly as normal, sticking a bit as I hit them. Well, one still sticks a bit, the first time I hit it after being left, but fine the rest of the time. The more I use it the better it will get, I suspect. 

In view of the above... Mr. Charlie, moderator extreme, gets one cat point for being correct. 👍

 

X1 😺

Edited February 24, 20233 yr by martin-w

Just a quick little blurb about using the dishwasher for cleaning things like keyboard spills and I even saw articles where guys throw in their baseball caps instead of using the clothes washer for them.

The newer dishwasher detergents are now enzyme based which along with the hot water will dissolve food particles, even burnt on.  Most prepared foods have a lot of sugar in them. 

1 hour ago, charliearon said:

Just a quick little blurb about using the dishwasher for cleaning things like keyboard spills and I even saw articles where guys throw in their baseball caps instead of using the clothes washer for them.

The newer dishwasher detergents are now enzyme based which along with the hot water will dissolve food particles, even burnt on.  Most prepared foods have a lot of sugar in them. 

 

I've heard of extreme overclockers, after smearing their motherboards with Vaseline and freezing the whatsits off their CPU's with liquid nitrogen, shoving their boards in the dishwasher. der8auer does it. 👍

Clean your cat...

On 2/23/2023 at 5:34 PM, jon b said:

Lucky it was just a keyboard…..

One of the comments in the video is:

"I worked as a flight attendant for Thai International for 38 years. Served thousands of beverages to the cockpit crew. Never once did a spillage happened. Thai has the procedure to hand any liquid to the flight crew from left side for the captain and  from right side for co-pilot so both can place the drinks in the cup holder beside then. The only place they could spill there drinks are on there laps. No rocket science here."

I would have thought that would be the universal procedure.

3 minutes ago, dmwalker said:

I would have thought that would be the universal procedure.

I believe it’s always been the case.

We are now only allowed cup on the flightdeck which have tops on them and small bottles of water with sports caps, it’s like being back at school.

What could possibly go wrong?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-64948054 

In case the second image doesn't show up in the above article, there is a link where the image is supposed to be.

Edited March 16, 20233 yr by dmwalker