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Cleaning my Apple Wired Keyboard

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MACAPALOOZA

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Jan 20, 2011
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Northwest Arkansas
I have a wired apple keyboard with the white keys and numeric keypad. I have had this keyboard for a little under a year now, but I am ALWAYS using this. Some of my keys are kind of dirty and some of those few are very apparent (ex. arrow keys, A,S,D,W for gaming, and the return and spacebar). If anyone has any advice on how to do this, that would be extremely helpful. I would really like to clean my keyboard without removing the keys if possible.

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I use 1" paint brush dumped in lightly soapy water (dish soap), then spinned to remove excess liquid. Brush horizontally, then vertically, then repeat. Seems to work well for me this way.
 
greg0rn said:
I use 1" paint brush dumped in lightly soapy water (dish soap), then spinned to remove excess liquid. Brush horizontally, then vertically, then repeat. Seems to work well for me this way.
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Thank you very much. That is a very good idea. I will definitely try that tonight when I get home to my keyboard.
 
Rubbing Alcohol

I use basic rubbing alcohol and a cotton swab on my white macbook.... works like magic!
 
The best thing I used was a Mr Clean Magic Eraser and a dry absorbent cloth.

Make sure to get out enough water so the foam sponge won't drip when wiping lightly across the keyboard. I actually pressed the dry Magic Eraser onto a damp sponge to moisten it to make sure I didn't wet it too much. For every pass or two across the keyboard I followed over with the dry cloth. It's slightly abrasive, but much much less abrasive than toothpaste which also works.
 
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