Way of Cleaning your Laptop Keyboard
When you have shelled out all your hard earned money on buying a best laptop, the maintenance of it should also hold top priority to you. You do not want the laptop to get dirty and unable to use after a brief period of time. Once your keyboard gets messy, it is not at all a simple task to replace it with a new one. However, a few things can be done to bring back your keyboard to its initial state. All you need is patience and a good amount of time along with a list of cleaning materials. You will have to follow these steps carefully and not disrupt the components of the laptop once removed.
Before performing this step, make a keyboard map or an easy way would be to take pictures of the keyboard. Once you have these pictures in place, go ahead with the disassemble. You will require a screw driver to remove all the keys and make sure that it is kept in a safe place. You can use a box for this purpose. Also, don’t use excess pressure while removing. If your keyboard has small rubber pads under each key, then you will have to remove this too.
Once all the keys are removed, use cotton swabs to clean to empty board. You can wet the swabs before cleaning. Make sure that you clean every nook and corner of the board especially the space between the keys. It is these spaces where the dust is accumulated more. If the space is very small then you can use a damp toothpick and clean out the dirt.
The size of the keys varies from laptop to laptop whereas some of them even have wires attached to it. Some of it even contains sticky grease on it. The keys should be cleaned safely one by one by using cotton swabs or a liquid based cleaner like naphtha. After removing the dirt from the keys place it all in a bowl and spray it with a cleaning agent like a multipurpose kitchen cleaner. Let it soak for about 5-10minutes before it is ready to rinse it with warm water. After rinsing it completely, spread the keys on kitchen paper towels and leave them to dry completely.
If your keyboard has any rubber detachable bits to it then remove them and place it in a kitchen strainer. Now spray a liquid based cleaning agent till it is completely immersed and let it soak in it for at least 5-10 minutes. You just need to follow the same kind of steps as you did for your keys. Wash them with luke warm water before you place them on the kitchen towel. An extra step to be done for these rubber bits is that you will have to fold the kitchen towel on it and press it so that all the water is absorbed by it.
As you have finished removing the grease from the keys its now time to re-lubricate them. Keep the keys on a thick paper and make it a point to place the keys with its bottom facing that is the alphabet or symbol down and coat it with lubricant very lightly. Also make sure that you have a good and high quality dry film lubricant. Otherwise, it may damage your keys.
After performing these steps, rearrange the keyboard and you are done with cleaning the laptop.
