subject: Tips To Keyboard Cleaning [print this page] Do you find your space-bar is sticking, or several keys on your computer keyboard are no longer operating, or you must bang it hard to get the character to come up? It is almost certain that you should make an effort to do a keyboard cleaning. This task is often rather simple, or possibly not if the keyboard is filled with substances and perhaps liquid was spilled into it.
We hope to offer you some quick and easy methods and tips to have a nice clean keyboard. We will start with the easiest, and then move on to the more difficult.
First, ensure you have available the following items: cotton swaps, compressed air with adapter, clean, a lint free dry cloth, cleaning solution like isopropyl alcohol, vacuum along with a screw driver (flat tip).
Make sure to first power off your pc, and unplug it.
Step 1: This one will surely be the easiest and with any luck you won't need to take your keyboard apart. Use either your mini vacuum, or the compressed air, and try cleaning all the dust and dirt from within the crevices of the keys. Try turning the keyboard upside down and shake it to stir up anything that might be caked onto the interior bottom.
Step 2: Now take your cotton swabs and dab them in the cleaning solution. Go around each of the keys and clean out any debris from inside of them. Take some time in this keyboard cleaning step.
Step 3: Use your cloth and dip it into the solution and slowly clean keyboard areas and around keys and buttons. Let dry and do it a second time.
At this time, you can turn on your pc to see if that is all that was necessary. However, in the event the buttons and keys are still sticking you must now proceed to a more challenging aspect of keyboard cleaning. You should do this systematically, by trying to correct the buttons and keys that have been giving you the most problems.
Step 1: Use the screwdriver and start with your space bar. Be very careful when taking off the button. There are numerous springs that must be put back in place.
Step 2: After the key, button, spring is off, you will have to use a cotton swab dipped in the cleaning solution and clean the areas completely. You might want to use the cloth as well to take out any debris or larger gunk which may be stuck there.
Step 3: Put the key plus springs back again. Press several times to make sure it is connected properly.
Repeat the above 3 steps for the keys and buttons. Once completed, power back up your pc and see if this keyboard cleaning method has worked well. In the event that none of this helped you get a clean keyboard which is working, you might have to invest in a new one.
