It's Friday, but is it safe?

[saraidia.livejournal.com]

I am a sysadmin at a large educational company. This means that we get to so some of the stuff that the FE's are too busy to do. While getting my second iced coffee of the morning from our kitchen just now, I ran into a phone rep who was getting ready to give his keyboard a bath, in the kitchen sink. He said it was grimy and needed to be cleaned off...

Granted the keyboard was nasty, with assorted dust, dried spoogy stuff and what looked like cobwebs, but dude, the sink??

WTF!

Comments

[kerberos.livejournal.com]

He's stupid. The dishwasher works much better.

Just disassemble the keyboard, put the keys in the cutlerytray, do it on low heat. then just wipe off and reassamble.

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

yup, i've used the sink many times but that's because i dont HAVE a dishwasher, LOL

i have a five year old.

after the third cup of coffee that he dumped into my keyboard i went on ebay and purchased a lot of 5 identical dell quietkey keyboards.

now whenever there is coffee dumped into my keyboard i just shove the keyboard under the faucet for a couple of minutes, shake it out, set it up on a shelf to dry, and put in one of my backups...

[jecook]

I need to do that, only because I tend to take out my aggravation on the keyboards when I'm doing some computer related stuff and it starts not working...

[valiskeogh.livejournal.com]

lol, for that reason also!

it was ~15 bucks for 5 pretty good backup keyboards, MUCH better than having to stop everything and run to walmart every time a coke was dumped in one :)

[tjernobyl.livejournal.com]

Does that work for newer keyboards? Most of the stories I heard were for older buckling-spring mechanisms that were nigh-on indestructable...

[alysania.livejournal.com]

This. hurts. my. head.
*continues to twiddle thumbs and wait for more people to update, as it is indeed friday, and half of her users are at home, sunning themselves*
GRUMBLE

[neferde.livejournal.com]

Heh, former roommate of mine spilled about 20 oz of Mt. Dew mixed half 'n' half with rum on her keyboard and, being more than slightly drunk at the time, just unplugged it, threw it in the sink, and left the water running over/under/through it for about an hour. Needless to say, the keyboard decided not to ever work again after that much abuse... :p

Keyboard bathing

[elcaminohippie.livejournal.com]

When my keyboard received an impromptu beer bath I did the same thing. Unplugeed it, took the case off, and sat the thing in the sink with the water runnnin for a while. I think the difference here though is that I waited over 24 hours to plug it back in. It takes FOREVER for the water in between those plastic and rubber sheets between the keys and PCB to evaporate. And it looked so cool I never put the case back on!

[lions-tambua.livejournal.com]

hmmm.. remembers me to the guy who tried to clean the mainboard of his PC..... under the shower...... with soap *G*
yes... with a brush *G*.. no, not a teethbrush. and brush with which you clean your back....

[kerberos.livejournal.com]

Actually after a successful evening of dumpsterdiving me and my buddy rescued 5 old black and green monitors from death by crushing.

old things had dust-o-rama.

so we opened the cases, rinsed them under the warm water for 10 mins, then put a heatgun on them for 2 hours.

put the case back on and hey presto. worked like a charm.

[dangermouse74.livejournal.com]

hehe my dad did that once but in the bathtub, and used some plastic cleaner that essentially melted all the keys.

[saraidia.livejournal.com]

OMG I just got images of a melting qwerty LOL

[dangermouse74.livejournal.com]

yeah it was amusing. fortunately keyboards are cheap :-)