The errant keyboard
The spacebar on my Microsoft Natural Keyboard “died” yesterday. After the initial problem of having to swap the kids’ keyboard with mine so I could continue working, I got to looking at replacements.
It was only after discovering that I’d have to shell out at least $100 to get a new one that I started questioning whether I really needed it. Lo and behold I found that one of the seven-year-old boys that hangs out in my office most afternoons had dropped something sticky down between the keys. In a jiffy, I’d cleared it with my trusty nail file and now the keyboard, which has outlived three computers, is back in business. Not a cent spent.
STOP PRESS. Someone commented below that you can put a keyboard in the dishwasher. I didn’t believe this. But lo and behold there are lots of links:
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I recall reading sometime ago that you could put a keyboard in the dishwasher to clean it up.
Yes, I put mine in the dishwasher, and it worked. I do have to say, however, that I put an old keyboard in, not the one I use currently. I was too scared to put my current one in.