![]() ![]() But then what about the factory workers who handled the parts and the boards? Think about it. I guess you could dissassemble it and sterilize it or in a corporate setting, you could replace them every week. I did describe the practical way to clean a keyboard. Oh, exposure to young children who attend daycare or K to fourth grade is more dangerous than keyboard or door knob exposure. Like Monk on TV, all one need do about that is avoid touching the eyes and mouth until you can wash your hands. How do you KNOW the disease problems were caused by keyboards? Door knobs are the more likely source, since many studies have been done about spread of flu, common cold and other minor illnesses from public door knobs. They take a dump and then walk out, ewwwww. I also started using a paper towel to open corporate bathroom doors that have door handle and a door that opens in, it's amazing the amount of nasty people who don't even practice basic sanitary methods they should have learned in kindergarten. If you can you really need to break the habit of touching your eyes or your face and unconscious habits are very hard to break. Richp wrote:As far as germs in the keyboard thats a big issue, we had a bad case of 'eye grunge' at lucent a few years ago, pink eye, creeping crud, eye jam, whatever you want to call it, all of us system engineers worked on all kinds of equipment with anywhere from 5-20 people using the same keyboards in the noc and on the systems from the sysadmins to the DBA's to the sun, HP or IBM techs. A kit lasts me (I have three PCs) about a year or more. I recommend two things for cleaning any keyboard, a serious mini computer vacuum cleaner (better yet the small Dirt Devil plug in vac) and a 3M Keyboard Cleaner Kit, which I get for $7 at Office Depot. And there is a macroscopic tiny bug, a mite, that lives on human skin cells. The filth in keyboards is dead human skin cells which attract microscopic germs that feast on human skin cells. They say the worst ones were those regularly "cleaned" with canned air. Popular Science and Discover magazine teams have discovered that PC keyboards are more germ filled than the average home toilet. There have been PC World articles about this. ![]() ![]() The problem with canned air is that they drive dirt further into and under the keys. Dirt Devil sells a small, powerful A/C vacuum cleaner that is great for cleaning computers, from keyboard to PC internals. Break a leg off a cap and you may end up doing the same. I ended up buying and installing a used keyboard (as members advised me to do in the first place). My experiment at gluing one back down lasted for a few months. I was the first member here to try to fix one of those polymer "springs'. Should you damage or break loose one of them, you'll want to replace the keyboard. There are the legs members have warned you about and then there are the tiny, thin, eraser-like "spings". I would not advise removing the IBM design key caps from a Thinkpad keyboard, unless you absolutely need to. ![]()
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