Re: OT: clicky keyboards

[Max Hyre <max@hyre.net>]

David Brodbeck wrote:

> Yeah, but for $40 they take the thing apart and clean it before they 
> sell it to you.  That might just be worth every penny, given how 
> disgusting those things get.  I hope the guy who cleans them gets extra 
> danger pay for the biohazard he's exposed to. ;)

   I read some time (years) ago that you could send them 
through the dishwasher.  I never got up the nerve to try 
that, but I sluiced one out in the sink (and I mean 
thoroughly), and after a couple of days drying out it worked 
fine.  The keys no longer stuck, and I didn't have to look 
at the cruft in the crevices.  (Said cruft probably had 
something to do with my habit of eating lunch at my desk.  :-)


		Best wishes,

				Max Hyre