Ask and you shall receive; I won’t hold back the gross ones because it does get better. Here we go - Before:
Doesn’t look so bad from afar…
Oh dear
Hm… ok
ew
Oh hey the keeb agrees
Alright. Time to clean. I used:
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Gravity; shake it out! An abominable rain of untold composition flutters and crackles its way into my sink.
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Cotton-tip things that definitely don’t go in your ear, with just some water to get crud from between the switches.
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Paper towels and alcohol for the ink stains on the case; probably not the best thing for the plastic but it’s what I have on-hand, and also likely to be the least of this keeb’s worries.
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Air bulb thing
After:*
Also during - here’s the plate mostly clean but before the case:
Air bulb, keys taken from a different keeb.
Mostly clean.
Getting there.
Time to gently, patiently scrub the case.
Still a few tiny spots, but mostly gone!
No more biofilm. For today.
Let’s snap it back on.
Oh yeah - much better.
Right side
Left side
No more fuzz
No more crumbles… or at least a lot less crumbles
Ah. Calming. Time for caps.
Oh yeah.
Fab.
So fab.
A corner
The whole thing - and the absolute glam that is my sister’s keyboard in all its shiny glory:
