Ok, so lets move on to the real deal. I've been wanting to clean my keyboard for years but well, I'm quite lazy to do it as it would take up the whole day. You must be wondering why cleaning a keyboard will take up the whole day eh. Well, i'll let the picture do the talking. (Please forgive me for the poor image quality)
So here's the keyboard, the Logitech G15, one of the first few gaming keyboard that have a lcd screen on it. Doesn't look that dirty does it?
Firstly, remove all the keys! well, close enough...
Just pry each one off with a flat-head screw driver and they do come off quite easily.
My keyboard is housing an ecosystem on its own! its beyond typing, gaming and stuff!
I remembered once I identically poured some cereal drink over it and my keyboard survived,
well with all these mess to clean up a year later.
Another view of the 'ecosystem'
These are the space-bar, shifts, enter, etc. that have a stabilizer bar underneath them. They are harder to be taken out and must proceed with caution. No more warranty for this keyboard yo!
Dump them all into a bucket, but first remove those stabilizer from those longer keys.
Spa treatment key-caps.
Meanwhile, the keyboard is being dissected!
Introducing, the membrane that suspends all the keys in their respective places!
Even the lcd is being stripped.
After separating the grey part of the plastic from the black cover its finally ready for a bath.
The stripping part is necessary in order to scrub those stubborn dirt out of the keyboard.
And of course with some soap and lots of scrubbing only the dirt would come off.
(Remember the cereal drink that i poured on it a year ago? Yeah, that makes my life harder a year later)
Finally, after a few hours of hard work, i can have a rest, NOT.
All those caps are done with their spa treatment and ready to be scrubbed one by one.
Like how a samurai cleans his katana, a true keyboard warrior should clean his keyboard as well! Haha.
Oh yeah, the colour on one small piece of plastic which has the Logitech logo on it has faded so i decide to paint it with silver paint to restore its previous glory.
Painting and sandpapering it a few times and realize that I should have gotten a spray paint instead of this cheapo gloss paint that takes forever to dry.
Meanwhile, those two are dried and ready for reassembly.
First to assemble is the lcd panel. Buttons and circuits go in first.
Then comes the lcd motherboard and media keys and so on.
Fully assembled the lcd panel.
The rear side of it.
Now with all the non standard keys fitted into the keyboard.
(the profile selector keys, windows key disable slider, mute and back light button )
after screwing all the grey plastic into place the keyboard start to take its shape once again.
The next morning, this dude is finally dried!
Now all the keys are back on the keyboard! Try spotting the silver colour plastic thing.
(This is just the top cover with all the keys on, not assembled onto the base yet)
Finally assembled the top cover with the base of the keyboard and frag on!
Smells good, feels fresh, no more sticky keys and jamming keys due to old cereal deposits (yucks)
and all the keys works well! A job well done is always satisfying.
Thanks and that's all for today, I'm too lazy to read through the post to correct any grammar or typing errors so I'll write this footnote instead. Enjoy!
