Cleaning keyboards

[jonathan.deitch@p7.f411.n133.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jonathan Deitch)]

Dateline Mon, 01/Feb93 01:01.

 >From: andrep@balboa.eng.uci.edu 
 >Date: 1 Feb 93 01:01:36 GMT Organization: University of California, Irvine
 >Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2

 >In article <20214@mindlink.bc.ca> Clayten_Hamacher@mindlink.bc.ca 
 >(Clayten Hamacher) writes:

>>Also, someone mentioned something about taking keycaps off and cleaning
>>underneath, how do they come off, I tried pulling up and they would come (I
>>stopped when I though they were about to break).

 >Don't stop.  Use a knife and pry those suckers right off.  Note: it is better
 >(safer) to pry them off from the top or bottom, not the sides, except for the
 >long horizontal keys (tab, ctl, shift, space, etc--do these from the side).

Please note this :

Do not *ever* use electronic cleaner on a keyboard !

Spraying cleaning fluid on the keyboard causes the keyswitches to short out
and they are *no longer usable* !

This, of course, requires complete replacement of the keyboard.

Note that this is contrary to Apple's own service doctrines ... I cleaned my
keyboard in this manner after my local service tech told me that this was the
preferred way ... (I know this guy, he was not stinging me ...) and I had to
order a new one.  I ordered it from Shreve systems, though ...

- Jonathan



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