Wash your keyboard in your dishwasher!

Or, maybe rather don't. Encouraged by some posts on the subject (i like the comment by soyMilk there, pimbert could have said something like that [Also, there is a cool attempt at "Will it melt"]), and as usual driven mostly by a huge laziness, i decided that my keyboard was dirty and tossed it the dishwasher. After some days of drying, i plugged it back in, just to realize that it had pretty much ceased to work. Then upon disassembling the thing i realized how stupid it was not to do it in the first place, since it turned out that the keys didn't fall apart as i feared they would, because they are tethered to the top plastic board. The whole thing is, thus, perfectly washable, and without the hassle of having to put the keys back into a hybrid between a dvorak and a dutch keyboard in the process.


The keyboard could eventually be fixed (some soap residues were preventing electric contacts to occur upon pressing the keys, mostly). So, my advice is: Try to unmount your keyboard first, maybe there's no need to risk the life of its inner parts in a hot bath (in fact this guy already got it).

Next time, i'll report on trying this trick with an expensive wireless apple keyboard (one probably needs something along these lines)...

Update: Nope, doesn't work. I had to take the 100 or so keys out to clean the thing, since otherwise almost as many screws would have had to be dealt with, the results remaining uncertain. I never appreciated a clean keyboard that much.