Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Cleaning your Laptop Keyboard

By Joseph Robertson


How are you going to make sure that you are cleaning your laptop PC keyboard correctly? There are countless of advices from the Net as to how one must clean his sticky portable computer keyboard. Keyboards, whether for laptop PC or desktop, merit proper cleaning - this is certainly a skill necesary for any student who wishes to own a laptop, and something which should be learned before purchasing any laptops for college. This you may start correctly by lubricating your keyboard back to the smooth performance it had even though it was recently purchased. Almost all of the time, you will observe that the keys will stick, right? This is going to be ascribed to drink spills on the keyboard, natural wearing off of the keyboard elements, rubber pieces within accountable for the snappy action when typing is weakened, and the commonest, which is the mud due to dust and hair falls. Here are some tips about how you'll resolve your Problems with your keyboard and bring it back to its wonderful operation.

First, simply collect the cleaning materials that you're going to need. These will include some cotton swabs, cleaning ads made from rubber foams, disposable towels, water and alcohol, lighter fluid and some scissors and tweezers, a kitchen sieve, a spray tin of the Super Lube Dry Film spray which is irreplaceable and needs to be there when you start cleaning. You'll also grab a PTFE"based lubricator which is understood to dry fast much suitable for this process.

1.Disassemble The Laptop Keyboard

You must first make a keyboard map for yourself so as to not lose any key that you take out from the keyboard. Carefully take out each key and keep safe in a container. Remember not to use too much force as you might not be well placed to put keys back again. Small rubber pieces you find, simply keep in another container in order not to get lost.

2. Start Cleaning The Keyboard

Start cleaning your laptop keyboard using cotton swabs a touch moistened with water. Confirm they're just a little moist because if too wet with water, surely the water will contaminate the keyboard and might damage the keyboard. This will guarantee cleaning up on all pollutants e. G the soda or coffee or chocolate crumbles that spilled. For the very hard to reach areas of the keyboard, get foam rubbers and cut them into miniscule pieces. Using the tweezers to hold them, you can better clean these hard-to-penetrate areas of the keyboard. Ensure though that these rubber foam pieces are always slightly dampened with water.

3. Repeat Same Process Using Alcohol

Repeat the same process using cotton swabs dipped in alcohol next. Never use rubber foams with alcohol since they can disintegrate with alcohol. After using alcohol, you've got to again repeat the same procedure using lighter fluid with tiny pieces of froth rubber and tweezers. This may make sure that all oil-based contaminants are removed from each key.

4. Clean Each Key Of Your Keyboard

First, clean each key with cotton buds and lighter liquid to eliminate all petroleum-based contaminants. With all keys placed in a sieve, spray with household cleaner and leave for 5 minutes after which you'll rinse using luke-warm water and drying with disposable hand towels to dry fully. Then you must make sure to clean all rubber components, lubricate all of the keys using the Super Lube Dry Film lubricant and eventually, lubricating the keyboard by doing a similar thing as lubricating the keys. Now, you will have a superbly cleaned and lubricated laptop computer keyboard again!




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