fightingfi
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whats teh best wat to clean muh keyboard with all this nice crap in it plz
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please ban urself asap sir j\k of course or am i .........Always make sure to use lots of warm sudsy water...
Be this a serious thread of not... I'm not one to pass up the chance to bitch about the keyboard industry when one presents itself lol
With how cheap they're made these days and how expensive they charge us for them... one has to take care in how they care for their device! I don't know if even using soap on keycaps is a smart idea, nevermind "scrubbing" sounding like a bad idea. Considering that most keyboards these days are backlit and do so to illuminate the key's value, and remembering they are "cheap", means they're paint covering clear plastic. Considering that our fingers can quickly erode away the paint on them, introducing a chemical (soap) and mild abrasive, along with a material which will be also abrasive, and you're just asking for removing the paint on the keycaps
I've really enjoyed my Thermaltake Challenger Pro, from a functional standpoint, but over the years it's sure showing its signs of use...
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If all you can make out is Q, Y, U and what might be J... your eyes are not deceiving you! lol
I did clean it once with soap and water and it started rubbing off the paint, so I stopped. I then used dry paper towel another time, and once again stopped after the color on the paper towel was black (from paint, not from being dirty heh).
So my advice? For keycaps: Pop them off. Wash gingerly, and only with lukewarm water (I wouldn't soak them).
For the rest, depends the kind of keyboard. Some are easy to take apart, and could have the case parts soaked to get any grime off. Otherwise, an old (clean) paintbrush works really well.
(And no, Thermaltake won't even answer your support email asking if they sell replacements, even if it was 2 years after it came out)
I don't know. I just blame cheap painted keycaps myself. Never cleaned my laptop's keyboard (HP ENVY x360) and its S, L, N keys are totally gone and the E, C, M, D are heavily worn, with A, V, O, K showing slight signs of wear.I've been doing it this way for a very long time and never had any issues. Just use soft sponges and a heavily diluted solution of soap and you should be fine. Now using rubbing alcohol and steel wool.... definitely don't do that. Unless your keys or keyboard has soft plastics or rubber as part of the build, then maybe you need to be more careful.