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How to clean under laptop keyboard???

  • 23-09-2008 10:31pm
    #1
    Mauricmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 418 ✭✭


    I think there is a corn flake or something stuck under my "C" key!

    Any tips as to get it out ?
    can the "c" key be removed without damaging keyboard?

    Thanks in advance.


Comments

  • #2
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Yes you can remove the key. Just pull up on it gently. Don't pull too hard as you may break the clip.


  • #3
    Mauricmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 418 ✭✭Mauricmo


    Ok i broke the clip.

    Any advice on putting it back together?


  • #4
    karlr42
    Closed Accounts Posts: 580 ✭✭✭karlr42


    The best way to clean underneath is with a can of compressed air, though I don't know where you'd get one of them


  • #5
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    AlmightyCushion wrote: »
    Yes you can remove the key. Just pull up on it gently. Don't pull too hard as you may break the clip.
    Mauricmo wrote: »
    Ok i broke the clip.
    I lol'd.

    possibly superglue but dont quote me on that..


  • #6
    Mauricmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 418 ✭✭Mauricmo


    oops


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  • #7
    Mauricmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 418 ✭✭Mauricmo


    Overheal wrote: »
    I lol'd.

    possibly superglue but dont quote me on that..

    I have partially reconstructed the "c" button, quite difficult actually.
    I'm afraid superglue will make it permanently stuck, but then again I haven't much choice now.


    Btw it was a nail clipping that was causing the original obstruction.:(


  • #8
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Mauricmo wrote: »
    I think there is a corn flake or something stuck under my "C" key!

    Any tips as to get it out ?
    can the "c" key be removed without damaging keyboard?

    Thanks in advance.
    Mauricmo wrote: »
    Ok i broke the clip.

    Any advice on putting it back together?

    I'm sorry, but i just cracked up when i saw that:o.
    What kind of laptop is it?


  • #9
    Mauricmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 418 ✭✭Mauricmo


    Its a Dell Inspiron 9400.


  • #10
    calex71
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,126 ✭✭✭✭calex71


    Ive been known to use bluetac in a similar situation once


  • #11
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,073 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    If you check out the Service Manual, you can find instructions on how to remove the keyboard, so you can examine it more closely, or even replace it. (I'm assuming that you don't have a warranty that is any help here!)

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



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  • #12
    Passenger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,150 ✭✭✭Passenger


    Ok a damp cotton bud is what you use.


  • #13
    cormie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,844 ✭✭✭✭cormie


    Lift upside down and blow, I call it the 69:eek:


  • #14
    Mauricmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 418 ✭✭Mauricmo


    cormie wrote: »
    Lift upside down and blow, I call it the 69:eek:

    Eh.........ok


    I like the bluetac idea- minimal risk of permanent damage.

    As for taking apart the entire keyboard, maybe in the right hands- but I have a condition know as "stupid fingers", a horrible affliction, so thats a no-no.


  • #15
    CreepingDeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    Lidl are selling a handy mini-hose adapter/thingy for vacuums this Monday.
    The advertisement pic shows someone using it on a keyboard.


    Vacuum mini hose


  • #16
    Silenceisbliss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭Silenceisbliss


    oh god that was funny....

    almightycushion, your some ass!:D

    desktop keyboard buttons....detachable
    laptop keyboard buttons......NOT detachable.


  • #17
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Silenceisbliss wrote: »
    oh god that was funny....

    almightycushion, your some ass!:D

    desktop keyboard buttons....detachable
    laptop keyboard buttons......NOT detachable.

    The thing is, that you can take individual keys off laptops, it's only that you have to be gentle as the clip securing them can be quite easily broken.


  • #18
    Mauricmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 418 ✭✭Mauricmo


    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    The thing is, that you can take individual keys off laptops, it's only that you have to be gentle as the clip securing them can be quite easily broken.

    I have first hand experience of this.


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