Hello, does anyone have recommendations on how to clean the Framework 16 modular keyboard?
I have a few sticky keys, probably from some drink spilled by my kids.
I have seen tips online of using distilled water or Isopropyl alcohol to rinse it out, but I am hesitant and don’t want to destroy it.
Does anyone have experience or recommendations for that?
IsoProp should not harm it in any way.
Heck, even distilled water shouldn’t.
I need to find someone who can lend me ad ultrasound cleaner to try and clean mine…
Fun fact: IIRC Der8auer used to wash GPUs and Mobos in the dishwasher… using distilled water. Madlad.
when cleaning it,
make sure to dry it well afterwards. Isopropyl alcohol is best since it dries up quickly, while destilled water does or is eletric conductive than IPA.
So use isopropyl alcohol, begin putting it on a cloth and wipe over keys and make sure to remove the keyboard fully from laptop first. Then do the clean and dry it fully and then see if keys are as sticky as before, if they still are you can probably bathe the keyboard into isopropyl alcohol, but again make sure it dries fully before you install it.
Also to get best result get 90% or higher IPA to get best chance it’s pure.
I’d suggest isopropyl alcohol as well. It’s non-conductive and dries quickly. Very useful on electronics.
Thanks for the advice!
I will try it out and report my success.
Distilled water does not conduct electricity, well, very little at least.
Distilled water: 0.5–3 µS/cm
Tap Water: 50,000 µS/cm
So, distilled water conducts considerably less than normal tap water.
I would hope that you would not be doing the cleaning while the keyboard is attached to the laptop.
I would recommend cleaning with distilled water instead of alcohol. Distilled water would dissolve spilled / sticky keys better than alcohol because the sticky stuff would have been dissolved in the drink(water) that was spilled in the first place.
Alcohol evaporates quickly, leaving the residue behind, whereas distilled water will dissolve the sticky bits and carry them away with it.
You can use an external keyboard, while the washed keyboard dries.
On that note, if you want to make something short in water at a relatively low voltage (~3v), it can actually be quite difficult. I had to do this at work once and it astounded me how much it took to get a sensor to short-circuit.
Did anybody try to clean the FW16 keyboard in an Ultrasonic Cleaner? I want to buy it for 3d printing and was wondering if it’s safe to dunk the keyboard for a quick bath to clean it from the inside as well, since it’s not recommended to disassemble the keys.
Also, as a total noob on the subject, how can one know what type of plastic is used in the FW16 keyboard? Is the paint job going to be affected?