Either way, I can now put it in storage and rest assured it won’t mutate in the filth and eventually plot my demise.OHHHHHH THIS IS RIGHT UP MY ALLEY. If this happens again, I could presumably just hit it with the blower and spend an hour with a few swabs and rubbing alcohol while all the keys are still on. This was certainly an adventure I don’t really want to reproduce anytime soon, but the keyboard was so filthy, it really needed a deep cleansing. When that was all done, I made one final pass with a microfiber to polish all of the piano black around the periphery.

I didn’t want to dig through the bucket of keys to put everything back in any particular order. I planned ahead and took a picture of the keyboard so I had a working reference. What I ended up with was almost shocking to behold:įinally came the most arduous task of individually cleaning and polishing each individual key cap with a microfiber and rubbing alcohol before popping it back on. Then I hit it with the blower again for good measure, making sure to really get in there with the attached brush. Next came the rubbing alcohol bath with various cotton swabs and a microfiber cloth. Luckily, I was right! Aside from a few stray hairs, it ended up pretty clean: I briefly considered firing up my air compressor, but figured the blower would be enough. I took outside to hit it with my high pressure air duster. Then I balled it up into a pressed representation of my failure as a tech geek. I was able to lift the matted down hair as if it were a woven carpet. This was easily far worse than I had imagined. I think each of my cats have their own blogs

Here it is with all of the key caps still installed:Īnd with the key caps removed, we can see that the cats were clearly rubbing themselves on it constantly while I wasn’t looking: Imagine five years of never once cleaning it in a four cat household, and never even doing the usual cotton swabs soaked in rubbing alcohol every few months. So now that I have the GMMK, I decided to see just how bad my old Logitech G710 keyboard was after five years of service.

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