How Filthy is your Keyboard?

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2003-04-03 08:25am

Just tried to clean my 2 year old dell Keyboard out...and failed, due
to the screwey design of the keyboard.

Looking between the keys, it assumes a sort of sickly green tone

EDIT: Using compressed air to blow the crap out, and it looks like...

*ugh*

Hair.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-04-03 08:47am

Mine is much, much worse. I don't know *what* my mother spilled in there, but it took me an hour to clean out the bottom row of keys this morning. Tomorrow.. the next row.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-04-03 09:15am

Probably nasty. Unfortunately, my IBM keyboard (not the Model M, alas

) doesn't want to be opened up.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2003-04-03 09:34am

It's pretty dusty but there's no sticky keys or cumstains, so that' good enough.

Baron Mordo · Post by **Baron Mordo** » 2003-04-03 10:07am

Mine's got that brownish-grey buildup of skin oil and dust on the keys. There's also crumbs and hair between them. Amazingly, I've never spilled liquids on it.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-04-03 03:03pm

Looks like food particles in mine. I want to buy another keyboard; the one I use should be down to $20 now.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-04-03 03:06pm

I clean mine once a month. I need to, my dad spends lots of time on my machine and he's a chain smoker. If i don't clean all the parts of my PC once a month it takes on a rather nastly cream colour.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-04-03 03:10pm

Pretty much just oil and dust.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-04-03 03:12pm

A little bit of everything. I would buy that compressed air stuff to clean it out, but I always just freeze stuff with it and waste it.

Crazy_Vasey · Post by **Crazy_Vasey** » 2003-04-03 03:12pm

A tramp could live off the contents of my keyboard for a month and half the keys are wrecked (when I get pissed off I have a habit of belting the keyboard...)

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-04-03 03:20pm

Crazy_Vasey wrote:A tramp could live off the contents of my keyboard for a month and half the keys are wrecked (when I get pissed off I have a habit of belting the keyboard...)

Ditto...I broke off the little tabs on the back of it that stand it up while doing accounting homework.

Batman · Post by **Batman** » 2003-04-03 03:28pm

Crazy_Vasey wrote:A tramp could live off the contents of my keyboard for a month and half the keys are wrecked (when I get pissed off I have a habit of belting the keyboard...)

Tell me about it. I actually killed my first keyboard after a particularly frustrating Doom session (yes, I go back that far).

Solution
a)Check your temper

b)get an old IBM keyboard. I swear those things are indestructible.
I never use the windows key anyway.

As for the cleanliness of my keyboard, it's somewhat dusty but that's it.

But I am SO not discussing what my mouse looks like...

Durron, WRT the tabs-same here.

Setzer · Post by **Setzer** » 2003-04-03 03:30pm

My keyboard has pancake syrup stains on the "u" and "i" keys. For a while the 2 keys typed at the same time. The sides of the keyboard have brown and red stains on it, and that's just the food;
I don't know what is beneath the keys, but it rustles when I turn it on its side.

BTW, Dalton, is this FUQable?

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-04-03 03:34pm

My two year old keyboard is quite clean, despite never having been cleaned beyond me wiping it with a paper towel or shaking it over a trashcan, and I eat while typing quite heavily.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2003-04-03 03:36pm

Batman wrote:But I am SO not discussing what my mouse looks like...

You didn't happen to use it as a sex toy by any chance did you?

On a related note I've seen some sick videos of force-feedback joysticks being used as vibrators while screening porn in my Canada Customs job.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-04-03 03:39pm

I keep it clean. And I make sure to aim away from the computer when I fap off, too.

Larz · Post by **Larz** » 2003-04-03 03:40pm

Dust, oil, food particulates, small colonys of sentient life... Its all there. My mouse I have to clean bi-weekly (yes, it gets dirty that fast...) probably going to by an optic mouse sometime within the next month (if I remember... so probably within the next 1-2 years to be more accurate)...

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-04-03 03:41pm

aerius wrote:
Batman wrote:But I am SO not discussing what my mouse looks like...
You didn't happen to use it as a sex toy by any chance did you?

On a related note I've seen some sick videos of force-feedback joysticks being used as vibrators while screening porn in my Canada Customs job.

OMFG ROTFLMMFGDQQAOROFLMAOOMFGMAHOKMAHOKMAHOKMAHOKROFLOL!!!!

Sokar · Post by **Sokar** » 2003-04-03 03:44pm

aerius wrote:
Batman wrote:But I am SO not discussing what my mouse looks like...
You didn't happen to use it as a sex toy by any chance did you?

On a related note I've seen some sick videos of force-feedback joysticks being used as vibrators while screening porn in my Canada Customs job.

Good God.....is there nothing people WON'T stick up their ass and or vaginal canals........

Also wouldnt a good vibrator be CHEAPER than a force-feed back joystick?

Lord_Xerxes · Post by **Lord_Xerxes** » 2003-04-03 03:57pm

aerius wrote:It's pretty dusty but there's no sticky keys or cumstains, so that' good enough.

ROTF!

Yeah, mine's dirty too.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2003-04-03 04:40pm

Take a picture of the keyboard, then pull off the keys, and clean the dirt underneath. Fixing the spacebar and enter key took awhile though.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-04-03 04:42pm

After seeing what was under the space bar ALONE, I'm afraid to look at the keyboard that ISNT the bottom row...

Alferd Packer · Post by **Alferd Packer** » 2003-04-03 04:52pm

Let me put it this way:

I just negotiated a mutual non-agression pact between what lives in my keyboard and humanity.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-04-03 04:53pm

Alferd Packer wrote:Let me put it this way:

I just negotiated a mutual non-agression pact between what lives in my keyboard and humanity.

That's what I'm afraid I might have to do.. o O

Post by **Beowulf** » 2003-04-03 05:33pm

Just a bunch of skin flakes and some hair...