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Hydrophilic Keyboards?

JrBearCub
By JrBearCub
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Used to you could chuck these things in the bath and as long as you let them fully dry they were fine to use and squeaky clean.  These modern ones with the lighting and controllers and switches, would they endure as much?  I'm starting to get "sticky keys" on mine and wanted a super quick cleansing.  It's not exactly bleeding edge, but it does have those fancy LEDs and dedicated keys and such.  Curious.

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Regardless of how quickly the "cleaning" part goes, you would be drying the keyboard multiple days. And it's not like cleaning the keyboard takes long, less than an hour.

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Thanks for the replies.  I'm not worried about the drying time.  Backup keyboard.  I just don't want to gruel through the nitpicky key pulling, cotton swabbing, pins & needles procedures.  I was wondering if it would be safe to just throw it under the faucet.

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