Cleaning a Mechanical Keyboard With Only Tools in Your House

This set of instructions will teach you how you should clean your mechanical keyboard when it is just getting too dirty. To prevent your keyboard ever getting too dirty you should use a vacuum or a can of compressed air and just use it on the keyboard every couple of months. Doing that will keep most dust out and it will just come to you accidentally getting something on the keycaps.

1. Key cap puller (optional)

2. A medium to large sized bowl

3. Paper towels/Q-tips

4. Vacuum or compressed air (optional)

5. Hot water

6. A cleaner of your choice (Preferably a dish soap or detergent)

• Unplug or turn off your keyboard
• Using keycap puller or fingers apply even pressure on 2 sides of a keycap and pull straight up
• Repeat this process for all keys on the keyboard

• Grab the corner of a paper towel or a Q-tip
• Use your item to go around each individual switch on the keyboard
• Use a vacuum or compressed air to suck up or blow out any large particles (optional)

• Take your keycaps and put them into a medium to large sized bowl
• Fill this bowl with hot water and your cleaner of choice
• Let this mixture sit overnight

• After your keycaps have sat in the water over night take them out and individually wipe down every one
• After that set them down on a towel or paper towels with the graphic side up to let any remaining water drip out
• Let sit for about 3 hours

• Once the keys are all dried all you have to do is put it back together
• Take your key and line up the hole on the bottom with the part of the switch that is sticking out
• Repeat this across the whole keyboard
• Plug in your newly cleaned keyboard and you are done