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02-05-2009, 02:20 PM
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How do I go about taking the keys off my laptop keyboard?
What's happened is that I was playing violin using my laptop to watch the instruction video, and I've got rosin EVERYWHERE!
Any help?
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02-05-2009, 02:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Leeds, UK | | Just be thankful that you weren't sick into your keyboard...  
But seriously, you can get the keys off by pulling them. However I don't know whether this will break them, so DON'T try it until someone who knows arrives.
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02-05-2009, 02:28 PM
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02-05-2009, 02:29 PM
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02-05-2009, 02:30 PM
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02-05-2009, 02:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Boston | | Take the butt end of a fork and put it under the key. From there, apply pressure to the top of the fork, as if it were a lever. When you want to put it back, just pop it back on.
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02-05-2009, 02:34 PM
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Originally Posted by WickedPissah Take the butt end of a fork and put it under the key. From there, apply pressure to the top of the fork, as if it were a lever. When you want to put it back, just pop it back on. | When I had a laptop though, a couple of keys came off and wouldn't go back on. If you lever them off will they go back on without breaking?
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02-05-2009, 02:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: NET | | | You can usually pry the keycaps loose with a suitable implement such as a teaspoon handle. Vacuuming the keyboard would get rid of a lot of the rosin.
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02-05-2009, 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Happynoj When I had a laptop though, a couple of keys came off and wouldn't go back on. If you lever them off will they go back on without breaking? | Yes, they should. |
02-05-2009, 02:49 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | | Be careful, some laptops have keys that are not designed to be removed at all, and will not easily go back on. Since they're more compact and travel less with each stroke, a more compact spring system must be used.
On my Toshiba, they were nearly impossible to get back on.
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02-05-2009, 02:53 PM
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Try compressed air. |
02-05-2009, 03:02 PM
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Originally Posted by cdef Vacuuming the keyboard would get rid of a lot of the rosin. | Ooh! That's a good one...
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02-05-2009, 03:05 PM
|  | I fling carrots | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Make a left at the Taco Bell | | | If you sparingly apply sick to your keyboard, it will completely hide the rosin.
win/win, IMO.
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02-05-2009, 03:07 PM
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Originally Posted by cdef ...Vacuuming the keyboard would get rid of a lot of the rosin. | I hear that works well on parrots too. 
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02-05-2009, 03:10 PM
| | Member | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada | | | Haha my cat used my roommate's laptop as a scratch pad and pulled off a few keys, never to reattached.
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02-05-2009, 03:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Happynoj Just be thankful that you weren't sick into your keyboard... | WHY did I open this thread suspecting that Fassa had barfed into her keyboard??
I'll comment that I have put keyboards upside-down into the top shelf of a dishwasher, run it on a short cycle with no soap, and given them a couple of days to dry out before using them. Worked fine.
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02-05-2009, 03:39 PM
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02-05-2009, 04:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Ben Lesser Maybe you should try practicing, you know... away from your keyboard. | Well that, or learn to properly show you how to apply rosin. If you're throwing off powder you're obviously using too much or not cleaning properly when done. Have a teacher show you how to do it right.
As for your keyboard, you can get a new one for $10 or less. Much easier than trying to take one apart to clean it and reassemble it. |
02-05-2009, 04:30 PM
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02-05-2009, 04:34 PM
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Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar This is a veiled attempt for you to brag about how you now play violin. | Thinly veiled. This comment is much more veiled. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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