Liz Madsen's Real Deal

Well today I spilled something sticky (eggs, you don’t wanna know why) over half of my laptop keyboard and, thankfully, it’s still working.

Here’s what I did:

I immediately removed all affected keys and cleaned the whole thing up, using tissues. Then I cleaned it up again using a soft, moist piece of clothing. Then I used cotton swabs dipped in some sort of alcohol (not sweet alcohol anyway) to clean it more and then dried it all up with some more tissues.

Done the same with the keys (minus the cotton swab part).

Another problem appeared with big keys (like enter, backspace and shift) which have a tiny metal piece attached to them. If you ever have problems reattaching them, you should know that, after putting the plastic thing back on its spot, you have to check out the back of the key and see how the metal thing would attach. But you do not attach the metal part to the key. You have to place it on the keyboard, in the position it would attach to the key (and it won’t attach to anything on the keyboard, at least for me it didn’t, so you don’t have to search for attachment spots, you just place it as it would fit the ones on the key). Then press the key on top of the whole thing until you hear it click.

The whole thing took a while, but I didn’t have to stop using the keyboard, neither did I unplug anything. In fact, I was watching Seinfeld as I was cleaning the whole thing. (Don’t try this at home )

Hope this helps. I had to search for a while (for the metal part problem, and couldn’t find it anywhere, I figured it out after watching a video about a different kind of keyboard).