What's in your keyboard?

Actually, except dust, mine for the most part is clean.

There's a chocolate chip wedged in mine.

*goes to get another Mr. Christie*



greg

ugh. keyboards are ****ign repulsive. given my fear of whats inside them, its amazing i use a "public" keyboard at a shared workstation at all. a couple stores so you can share my OCD about keyboards.

1. some tech guys at the last place i worked at were replacing a guys workstation. they picked up the keyboard and it startedd making a sound like a rainstick. they turned it over and many many many fingernail clippings dropped out of it.

2. i took over someone elses workstation at the same place i was working at and some of the keys were sticky. i took them all off and found what looked to me barbeque sauce all under the keys. a thorough washing and all was fine. but damn, that was repulsive.

3. i was watching some show on TV about how people are afraid of toilet seats. so some doctor went around and swabbed toilet seats and other more "normal" things that we arent afraid to use. public phones, keyboards, celphones, and anything else they swabbed were all WAY dirtier than a toilet seat.

ugh. thanks XI.

cat hair. and then some more cat hair.

Ciggie ash.

Must have a look see how to take the thing apart one of these days and give it a once over.

Where's that vomit smilie?

ya. someone should find that out. i sold a pro keyboard that i tried like heck to properly clean out but it never quite worked out too well. even with a can or so of compressed air and qtips and whatnot.

There are hairs underneath the keys of my TiBook. How can I clean under there, I don't think laptop keys snap off like standard keys?

Ever see the one about the bar-top peanuts?
Scientists tested a dish to see what it had in it and found traces of fourteen different people's urine. Seems peeps don't wash their hands in the bathroom and then just go back and dig into the peanuts.

Orange juice and its damn sticky

Mine had dirt of various kinds aned a miscellaneous hairs.

I clean out the keyboard on my pismo frequently, lots of hairs and dust and crud, but not too bad. I shared my first apartment with three other guys, and one of them asked me for help with their mac, his keyboard had just stopped working. It was a snow iMac with the clear pro keyboard, and I took a look at it. It was filled with bits of weed. Twigs, stems and shake, all worked into it, plus bits of cheetos and dorritos.

Couldn't figure out exactly why the keyboard wouldn't work, though. He asked me if he could just send it back to Apple and get a new one. I recommended against that, and he just bought a new one.

ciao,

What's in my keyboard is non of your damn business !

Yeah you can pop off the key tops on your TiBook, just a little bit of pressure and off they pop. Just don't get over-zealous or you'll be needing some new bits!

I think the keycaps come off way too easily - I reckon at the moment I probably have to reseat/replace keycaps on up to 10 iBooks a week just now.

It's wonderful - you get a little record of every place you go in the stupid dust under your AAARRRRR.

A little New York mountaintop, a little CT swampland, a little MA riverbank, your'e all set.

I got reminded of the movie Gattaca somehow.

a friend of mine is clumsy. totally clumsy. at his place one night, i witnessed him knock not just ONE glass of wine all over his Pro Keyboard, but THREE. he smokes weed too, so the keys are littered with pot holes, and the inside is full of tobacco and chunks of weed.

I have a Pismo too. You reckon just a vacuuming would do the job?

i am shocked but i don't have much of anything in my keybroad...my black cat must be staying away from my desk as of late.

You can flip the keyboard out and tap a whole load of **** onto the palmrests. just make sure you have the laptop angled correctly so it doesn't all go back into the computer.

dust, hair, cheese, chips, popsicle stains, kool-aid stains.... and alot of unidentifiable crumbs.


Chris

One of the guys at work does a lot of 'smoking' One day he brought in a MS Natural keyboard (one of those curved split jobs) that some of the keys had quit working. I pulled it apart to have a look, not only did I find loads of 'rolling tobacco' but a load of the alu traces had been burnt off and part of the membrane had been partially melted. I mentioned this to him and he then remembered that the end of his fag had fell off while over the keyboard.

My brother has just got a new Logitec wireless board, so I'm selling the his old Apple pro, I felt I had to disassemble it before putting it on eBay. I wouldn't want to pay for something full of various cat hairs, random fluff, and nail clippings, so I didn't think anyone else would.

Hair, dust, cracker crumbs (I don't even remember eating crackers at my computer, ever), a few small pieces of ramen, a small bit of flavored tofu, a few pieces of cigarette ash, and what I'm hoping is just dead skin because I have no idea what else it could be. Man, I have to clean this thing...

I'v got dried cordial, and coke in my keyboard. Bread crums, and dust.

Don't even get me started about the dried C�M though

Dust, crumbs, ashes, tobacco, seeds and stems...

I want to take the dang thing apart to clean it but it's as easy as defusing a nuclear missile...

Linkage...

Coke..?!? It's pretty expensive, I'd try to salvage what I could with a razor blade...

Ah crap, add Italian salad dressing to that list...

cat hair, toast crumbs, my hair, dust, candy

Clean the kb out, collect all the bits, pieces, and goodies, and smoke that ****.

Post here with results (or bbq).