A friend asked if you could wash a keyboard in the dishwasher. I had never really considered it, but i had a grungy apple keyboard (one of the new white ones) that i had been meaning to replace but kept putting it off... The latest Apple keyboards have a cool window in them so you can see whatever goodies fall down into them. I decided hey what the heck... stuck it on the bottom rack with the keys facing the inside. Ran it on the regular cycle with detergent (Electrasol). NO HEATED DRY:)
When it was done, i shook the water out as best i could, left it near a fan for a while to help speed up the drying process... About 48 hours later i plugged it in, all the keys worked, and it's a lot cleaner than before (I eat at my computer desk, so invariably food drops into/gets spattered onto the keyboard). Also, they keys didn't feel any different (that is, the action wasn't negatively affected), because i have a second identical model keyboard and I couldn't tell them apart afterward.
So, no guarantees.. But it worked for me:)
Oh yeah, test it first by plugging it into the USB bus of something you don't really need...
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A friend asked if you could wash a keyboard in the dishwasher. I had never really considered it, but i had a grungy apple keyboard (one of the new white ones) that i had been meaning to replace but kept putting it off... The latest Apple keyboards have a cool window in them so you can see whatever goodies fall down into them. I decided hey what the heck... stuck it on the bottom rack with the keys facing the inside. Ran it on the regular cycle with detergent (Electrasol). NO HEATED DRY :)
When it was done, i shook the water out as best i could, left it near a fan for a while to help speed up the drying process... About 48 hours later i plugged it in, all the keys worked, and it's a lot cleaner than before (I eat at my computer desk, so invariably food drops into/gets spattered onto the keyboard). Also, they keys didn't feel any different (that is, the action wasn't negatively affected), because i have a second identical model keyboard and I couldn't tell them apart afterward.
So, no guarantees.. But it worked for me :)
Oh yeah, test it first by plugging it into the USB bus of something you don't really need...