Re: Cleaning Keyboards



On Tue, 19 May 2009 22:12:30 -0500, "Karl Townsend"
<karltownsend.NOT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"JR North" <junkjasonrnorth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Decided to try a method I read about sumwhr on the net. Had a
particularly grungy PS2 board for the shop computer. Had a few iffy
keys, too.Set it in the dishwasher, top shelf, and angled down so the
water wouldn't pool inside. Ran it through the cycle with the usual
load. Worked great! The keyboard looks like brand new, and functions
perfectly. I prolly wouldn't try this with a wireless board, but for
the basic ones, works good. YMMV.
JR
Dweller in the cellar

No s$%^t!. i never would have guessed that would work. I've been tossing
keyboards once a year. I'll try it. if it don't work I'm out a whopping $10.

Karl

Its something that works very well with about 90% of all keyboards and
has for years.

Gunner who dishwashes his keyboards about once a year


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liberal democracies who by giving moral and material support
to a totalitarian ideology in effect were braiding the rope that
would hang them. Why people who enjoyed freedom and prosperity worked
passionately to destroy both is a fascinating question, one still with us
today. Now the useful idiots can be found in the chorus of appeasement,
reflexive anti-Americanism, and sentimental idealism trying to inhibit
the necessary responses to another freedom-hating ideology, radical Islam"

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