Not Very High-Tech, but........

[The Plumber (imported)]

try ebay got a keyboard for twentyfive cents,shipping was ten dollars,works great:)

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

Hey Plumber, I wanna meet the lady plumber

[Dave (imported)]

I have a Dyson Vacuum cleaner -- it sucks with the best of them!

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

I have a Dyson Vacuum cleaner -- it sucks with the best of them!

Ken_SD owns a Dyson too, he says it's great.

[twaddler (imported)]

It may be time to clean the coils behind your refrigerator too.

Careful: things I usually find coiled behind my refrigerator are terrifying.

[xeshan180 (imported)]

Hey Plumber, I wanna meet the lady plumber

Exactly that I wanted when I looked at her.......

[devi (imported)]

A lot of times refrigerators can be gotten for free. And that's because the owner thinks it's not working. I could never get a full size one into where I live so I did without. Then my brother gave me a small fridge. But before that I was using the trunk of an old car. Our nights are cold even in the summer in Colorado - New Mexico, even in the summertime. Then in the morning you cover your food with winter sleeping bags for the day. For the winter, I had an area inside that doesn't get too warm. So I never even had an electric bill. For heating food a car works good too if the front is pointed toward the sun. Just put the food on the dashboard. Somehow all my life I have been more environmentally conscience than the ones that say they are. I've cleaned some of their homes. That's how I know. As for computer keyboards, I use the public library half the time but you can also get them cheap at the second-hand store... --Or you could just clean out the keys too which is probably smarter.

[janekane (imported)]

I wash dirty-sticky keyboards. I was taught the ways of doing that when I worked as a repair technician for a test-equipment purveyor in the early 1960s. While the industrial detergent we used then is no longer being manufactured, I do have a pH meter and can measure the pH of readily available hand dishwashing detergents, and can titrate such to nominally pH 7.0, thereby having a rather chemically non-reactive detergent which is essentially non-corrosive. Dismantle a keyboard (or other electronic thing) enough to be able to thoroughly wash it, use a compressed-air paint sprayer to clean the item in question, knock as much water off as possible using compressed air from an oilless (diaphragm-type) compressor, put the items in a ventilated temperature chamber at about 50C, wait for a few days, put the cleaned thing back together, and, so far, wonderful success every time.

Test instruments which were way out of calibration specifications sometimes came right back into specification only by being properly cleaned. I have repaired electronic equipment that went through fires so hot as to melt much of the plastic, by replacing the melted plastic and washing the rest, and have restored equipment that was deemed a total loss to working as new condition, equipment which, decades later, was still working properly.

Cleanliness in electronic stuff is sometimes next to functionality.

One benefit of my being autistic enough to only have earned the wages of a marginalized person is my having learned to fix things that are worth the effort of fixing.

Having been successful in getting myself properly fixed (orchiectomy?), I have set my sights on finding what else may be worth fixing.

Human society is, for me, far more merits being fixed than do dirty keyboards or other electronic gadgets.

So, I work away at learning how to repair human society.

The beauty of taking on an impossibly hopeless task is the comforting fact that failure is wisely to be expected; by expecting failure in the effort to accomplish such a task, personal failure in taking on such a task becomes impossible.

Am I recommending washing dirty keyboards? No. I do not recommend it even for myself. I do it regardless of recommendations. Like almost everything else I ever do.

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

Careful: things I usually find coiled behind my refrigerator are terrifying.

You want something really scary? Try my meatloaf.

Don't believe me, ask IEunuch or River

[Riverwind (imported)]

Its your fault, I got to looking at my key board and decided it needed a good cleaning. So I took out all the screws on the back, removed the batteries, separated the top from the bottom, then removed all the keys. Washed all the keys and the top part of the board, rinsed and dried, then the task of putting all the keys back where they belonged, I did not realize there were 102 different keys, nor did I write down where they all came out from. Lucky for me I am good and put them all back where they belonged.

I have noticed the key board seems a bit tighter then it was, I like it and now its good for another couple years.

River