How can I clean the laptop keyboard from dust and dirt at home? How and what to clean the keyboard on the laptop from spilled liquids, dust, debris, dirt?

If the notebook keyboard is flooded or crumbled with crumbs, it can be cleaned at home. How exactly, find out in the article.

Even if someone has not faced such a problem as a keyboard filled with a liquid( which happens very often!), Then clean it from the dust, the crumbs from food or sebum that everyone has and whenregular use of the laptop remains on the keys, in due course still have to everyone. Therefore, the question is whether and how to wash, clean and refresh the keyboard, is very relevant.

Can I clean my laptop keyboard?

It is possible, even necessary, especially if any liquid was spilled onto it. Moreover, you need to do this right away without waiting for it( tea, coffee, beer, cola, etc.) to penetrate inside the laptop and not spoil not only the keyboard, but also its other components.

IMPORTANT: It is understood that it is not a question of washing with durable water and full immersion. It is necessary to carefully remove and clean the keyboard

If cleaning is carried out in order to get rid of dust, because the buttons began to fall, or for some other reason, you need to allocate two or three hours for this, because the work is laborious.
You can, however, carry the device to a service center, where specialists will work on it. You can do everything yourself.

The keyboard of the laptop can be cleaned at the service center.

How and what to clean the buttons on the laptop?

It is best to clean the buttons on the laptop with isopropyl alcohol or a special liquid for the keyboard, which is sold in the departments of computer technology.

IMPORTANT: Before you clean the keyboard, you need to turn off the laptop, disconnect and remove the

battery. If the keyboard "rescue" is in emergency mode, you can turn off the laptop and not turn it off, simply unplug and remove the battery

1. Beforethe way to remove the buttons, you need to hedge, how correctly to return them to their places. To do this, you either have to take a picture of the keyboard, or stack the buttons in the same order as they shot them( this method is only suitable when the person himself is cleaning the keyboard, so that no one pushes these buttons while they wait for their return to the place, neither the child noranimal, or accidental movement by one's own hand).
2. The buttons can be removed using an ordinary knife, a small screwdriver or a nail file. The used tool is turned under the angle of the key and gently pushes it upwards. Learning to shoot keys from the laptop keyboard is better, starting with some less-used key, for example, with a solid sign or with the letter "e".
3. You can rinse the buttons of the keyboard with a brush( toothbrush, napkin, cotton pad), removing them from it and lowering it into a soap solution and cleaning the inner and outer surfaces of them from dirt and dust.
   Before attaching them to the keyboard again, they must be thoroughly dried.
4. If it turned out to remove all the keys neatly, then putting them back would not be difficult either. The key needs to be carefully adjusted to the desired position and then press it lightly. If the key is set correctly, there should be an audible click - the key is fixed.
   For more keys, space, shift, enter, you may need to first fix the metal mount, but it's also not at all difficult.

The removed buttons are recommended to be laid out in the same order in which they are located on the keyboard.

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How and what to clean the keyboard from dust, debris, dirt?

Clean the keyboard from dust and dirt can, by conducting surface cleaning, or doing a "general".

1. Surface cleaning involves wiping the keys with a damp( not wet!) Cloth or cloth, cleaning the gap between the keys with a brush, a vacuum cleaner, a hair dryer or a can of compressed air.
2. "General" cleaning means that you have to remove the keys, all or part and wash them with a soap solution or rub it with isopropyl alcohol.

The algorithm of actions will look like this:

• finish the work on the
• laptop disconnect it from the
• power supply remove the
• battery from it, take a picture of the keyboard if the
• "general" cleaning is to be done.
• collect the buttons on the

keyboard.screwdriver.

On sale there are special rubber attachments-Velcro for cleaning the keyboard.
This nozzle is superimposed on the keys and slightly pressed down. Due to its properties, it fills the inside of the keyboard and absorbs dirt from it. After it is easily removed.

Velcro for cleaning the keyboard.

How and what to clean the laptop's flooded keyboard?

The filled laptop keyboard must be cleaned and dried, otherwise the liquid that has been spilled or poured onto it will fill the parts, they will start to rot and fail. Worse, all sorts of Coca-Cola and other drinks can enter into chemical reactions with the details of the laptop, which will also lead to more problems with it.

1. Buttons on the keyboard will have to be removed, washed and thoroughly dried.
   It may be necessary to disassemble the keyboard further, removing and cleaning out the layers under the buttons of the keyboard( three film layers with contacts and tracks on them).If the liquid is stuck on or under these layers, they also have to be removed and rinsed.
2. The layers are joined and glued together. They need to be carefully separated from each other, trying not to hurt the tracks and contacts. First remove the rubber gasket, which protects them. It is removed without problems.
3. Each layer is washed and dried.
4. The hair dryer can help speed up the process, only its air stream should not be hot, otherwise the contacts may melt.

Layers of the keyboard.

The question of what to clean the keys and internal layers of the keyboard, remains open.

1. Water, especially plumbing with impurities - is not the best remedy. If so, use distilled water for this purpose.
2. The best option is alcohol, ethyl 96%.It will well wash and quickly erode, and also absorb water.
3. You can rinse with the same isopropyl alcohol.
4. Rubber gasket of the keyboard can be washed and running water from the tap.

Rubbing the layers, it is necessary to pay attention to the tracks - they should not be damaged. Unfortunately, if the keyboard is flooded thoroughly, or the time has passed, the tracks can be damaged - oxidized, crumbled, cracked and stuff. But they can be restored using a conductive varnish. It is sold in auto shops. Such varnish draw those parts of the tracks that are damaged.
Apply the varnish gently so that there is no shortage between the tracks.

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keyboard How to remove the keys from the notebook keyboard:

keyboard analysis The buttons are located on so-called elevators. They are made of plastic, their role - to ensure the mobility of the button.

1. Removing the buttons can be first removing the surface of their closing, then the elevators on which the surfaces are located.
2. You can also use the elevator to remove the buttons.
   Having removed one button surface( with or without elevator), you will notice that each of them has three or four holes. To connect the elevators, each of which is fixed on the one hand by a hook, and on the other side by two latches. Disconnecting the elevator, first you need to detach the latches, and then the hook.
3. Collect the washed and cleaned keyboard in the reverse order, guided by the photo of the keyboard, which was done in advance to put all the buttons in their place: attach the button, hook the hook;Press the button where the latches are to hear the click and feel the button lock.

How do I clean a computer keyboard without having to figure it out?

Without dismantling the keyboard, the computer is cleaned of dust, crumbs and dirt:

1. Vacuum cleaner( car vacuum cleaner).It needs to be tuned to a purge, so that the resulting wave of air blows out crumbs and dust.
2. With a compressed air or compressor. In the same way, crumbs and dust are blown out.
3. Using a hair dryer, adjust it for blowing a cold( not hot! !!) jet of air.
4. Rubbing alcohol or a special solution of the button and the intervals between them with cotton swabs.

Cleaning the keyboard with a hairdryer.

Cleaning the keyboard with a tissue.

Cleaning the keyboard with a vacuum cleaner.

Laptop Keyboard Cleaner There are special cleaning kits for notebooks, which include a special liquid, a napkin and a brush.

Home-made products are best suited:

• isopropyl alcohol, which can be slightly diluted with
• with distilled water, moisten a cloth or napkin and clean
• ordinary soapy water, which, however, should be used with care, so that the cloth soaked with it was not too wet, and moisture did not get on the laptop

Shop tool for cleaning the keyboard.

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