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Best method to clean K70 keycaps?

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Pretty much as you have said, there's no better way to clean them than completely removing all of the keys and individually cleaning them with a cloth or by dumping them into a bowl of sorts. 

With keys that have stabilisers just go at them from the top and bottom after removing surrounding keys.  

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Hello guys,

 

I was about to clean my K70 keycaps with dish soap by hand and some warm water then it struck me: what actually is the safest method for cleaning those greasy bastards? I would remove all of them, brush the keyboard itself and throw the keycaps in a bowl with warm water and dish soap to wash them manually. Then I would dry them with a towel then a quick pass with a hairdryer on low heat to finish off.

 

And one more thing, how do I remove the keys with stabilizers such as the spacebar, shift and backspace keys? Can I break the stabilizers if I'm not careful? I am not going to force them if I can't get them to come off but are the stabilizers fragile? And how do I put them back into place?

 

Thanks for answering

 

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Be carefull with the hairdryer part. I tried this and two of my keys kind of melted and now have an odd form, you can't see it from above but still.

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Pretty much as you have said, there's no better way to clean them than completely removing all of the keys and individually cleaning them with a cloth or by dumping them into a bowl of sorts. 

With keys that have stabilisers just go at them from the top and bottom after removing surrounding keys.  

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I'd let them dry off personnally. Better safe than sorry

I have a K70 myself and when I clean it I use a sponge and then I let it dry.

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id do as you say warm water, dishsoop but just toss em on a towel overnight and maybe infront of a fan, less work, leave the stabilizer keys...they are not worth the trouble risk, clean those by hand on the board itself with a damp soapy cloth

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In the past I've just used hot water and a dash of dish soap.

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14 minutes ago, -iSynthesis said:

Be carefull with the hairdryer part. I tried this and two of my keys kind of melted and now have an odd form, you can't see it from above but still.

Yeah I know that's why I precised ,medium heat. It's a tad hotter than skin temperature so around 37 C I think it should be fine. Besides, the hairdryer won't be inches from the keys... more like a foot away. Thanks for warning me I'm very grateful :D

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Thanks to everyone for approving of my method and for stabilizer keys, I will clean them on the keyboard itself after removing all the others

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