![]() ![]() Somewhat topic-adjacent - I'm looking at getting a new keyboard. I've never tried it, and would never do that to a modern keyboard, but I'd imagine the effects would be similar with a whole lot less effort. I did it about once every 2 years during the decade and a half that I owned it and it was sold at an estate sale in perfect working condition 15 years after that.Īt least one person mentioned using a dishwasher. It always came out shining and like-new - partly because whatever they did to print the letters on the keys was very resistant to being worn off. I was surprised that a lot of the discoloration on the keys wasn't the usual plastic oxidation but was from the oil and grime on my fingertips. If you want to restore the keys - and to be clear, I can't honestly recommend this approach - but I used to bathe my Northgate Omnikey and clean it with dish soap, followed by a trip to the oven on the equivalent of a "keep warm" setting for a half-day. You'll almost certainly get that 20 years. It's survived multiple coffee spills and at least one case where it was repeatedly picked up and bashed against the desk out of frustration (both key-side down and up). I used to work with a guy who used the original Model M that he had with the PC he was given in the late 80s/early 90s. The first time I performed this all-day, insane, cleaning routine was after I had lost all hope of resurrecting my keyboard due to an unfortunate encounter with a full glass of Mountain Dew.Īt no point did I ever consider putting it in the dish washer. ![]() I haven't owned a keyboard like it since and I expect the one I use day-to-day wouldn't survive a strong gust of wind. There's got to be parts in that keyboard that corrode, but it always came out "like new". I did this at least 10 times during the decade and a half that I used this board (and it was sold in perfect, working condition). ![]() After a quick towel-dry, I'd toss it in the oven for 12-or-so hours at the lowest temperature (I think about 150-200 degrees American). My method for cleaning my Omnikey was to fill the kitchen sink with water and clean it like one cleans a dish. :) And yet, here you are, with an equally insane, similar but much better approach. Actually, I thought it sooner than that, because I almost shared a story about how I used to clean up my Northgate Omnikey and decided not to because I didn't want to be judged. Reading your comment, I thought either "nobody is going to believe this guy" or "people are going to think he's nuts". ![]()
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