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Sun 3 Sep, 2006 04:15 pm
Well, I have looked into the abyss! Or the Stygian pit, the Augean stables, the nether regions of hell...
In other words, I had cause to remove some of my keys, and look into the cesspool beneath.
Ewwwwwwwwww.....
So.....can I disconnect the thing, take its keys off, and put it through the dishwasher?
Best ignore it until I lose more than just my hyphen and get another...and this time get one of those big plastic keyboard condoms?
What can I do given that I now know what I know.
And why does the shift key have that wire thingy?
The wire thingie has something to do with holding down the Shift Lock.
I was wondering about this myself the other day...
Don't mess with it, dlowan.
Noddy24 wrote:The wire thingie has something to do with holding down the Shift Lock.
There's a shift lock?
nimh wrote:I was wondering about this myself the other day...
<nods sympathetically>
Wire thingy, or Augean stables?
gustavratzenhofer wrote:Don't mess with it, dlowan.
Wire thingy, or Augean stables?
Too late if the former. I done messed with it.
Well, you're still communicating in a primitive fashion thus leading me to believe that the damage was minimal.
Cleaning Keyboards . . .
If Robert Frost were here today, what he might have done with that for a beginning.-
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I cleaned the keyboard
And that has made all the difference.
Shift lock...caps lock...little wire thingy.
So...it's nice that you're all having fun and all...but how do I clean the smegging keyboard?
That's easy! First you'll use a Dust Off and get rid of bread crumbs and
other loose food items.
After that, you'll get a keyboard cleaner and swipe over the keys.
I've been told that the keyboard comes apart--and not to try to do this.
Every so often I hold the keyboard upside down, avert my eyes and shake.
Alcohol wipes--the sort nurses use to swab the arm before drawing blood--and Q-tips do a fair job of dusting.
CalamityJane wrote:That's easy! First you'll use a Dust Off and get rid of bread crumbs and
other loose food items.
After that, you'll get a keyboard cleaner and swipe over the keys.
Oh you poor, sweet, innocent woman.
I am asking how one cleans disgusting accretions of nameless sticky germ infested gunk from under the keys!
dlowan, I would suggest you take a deep breath, calm down a little, toss your keyboard in the trash, and go BUY A NEW ONE!!
Good grief.
gustavratzenhofer wrote:dlowan, I would suggest you take a deep breath, calm down a little, toss your keyboard in the trash, and go BUY A NEW ONE!!
Good grief.
Fair comment, but no money. I mean I don't have enough, not after the mortgage etc...not right now.
Should I let it breed and hope for a cool new species?
Now that the crocodile hunter is dead, maybe you could sneak into his house during the funeral and take one of his keyboards.
I use a brush, like a basting brush or a small paint brush, to get in between the keys, and then use my vacuum cleaner. That seems to work fairly well.
I pry off keys when something is really stuck and I haven't had any difficulty with the regular keys. I thought my keyboard was done for, though, when I pried off the shift key and the space bar and ran into the wire thingys. I finally got them back on properly, but I won't do that again.
Well, I probably will, but not for a while ...
mckenzie wrote:I use a brush, like a basting brush or a small paint brush, to get in between the keys, and then use my vacuum cleaner. That seems to work fairly well.
I pry off keys when something is really stuck and I haven't had any difficulty with the regular keys. I thought my keyboard was done for, though, when I pried off the shift key and the space bar and ran into the wire thingys. I finally got them back on properly, but I won't do that again.
Well, I probably will, but not for a while ...
Hmmm....I mean REALLY sticky gunk.
I think I need something to dissolve it....
We'll miss you.
Save up and buy a new keyboard. I'm gonna spring for a new mouse before we head back to Tranna. The new/old one's possessed, and the new/new one doesn't like the new puter.
I hope you have a black keyboard, Deb. If everything else fails, take
some clearasil acne pad or clearasil liquid with Q-tips.
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