have you ever put your keyboard in a dish washer ?

They won't short out and fry. There isn't enough power going through a keyboard.

I bet they would work underwater. Who is up for trying?
 
While I've seen this work well a lot...



I have to agree with this. There's just no way you'll be able to get all the water out without opening it up, IMO, and water damage is a PCB killer.
don't dishwashers have an area you fill with salt as well so it's likely corrosive as hell?
 
I don't think I've ever got a keyboard in such a state that putting it in the dish washer looked like an attractive option! Soft cloth and isopropyl will get any muck off, paint brush and hoover before hand if you're using it as a plate for your Greggs sausage rolls
 
I think you actually can do this, and wash motherboards, graphics cards etc. As long as they air dry for 48 hours minimum they're fine.

At a push, with some luck. Preferably with pure water. And it was to be able to air dry, which might not be the case with all of a keyboard.

Having said that, some while ago I spilt a lot of fizzy sugary lemonade on an uncased PC while it was powered up. I was overclocking and in those days that meant changing jumpers on the motherboard, so I had the case off. This was back in the days when the power off switch actually was a power off switch and on my case at the time it was a (relatively) big red lever on the front of the PC. I got to it faster than I would have thought possible. I stripped the PC down. The PSU and drives were untouched, but that was about it. When I removed the CPU and tilted the motherboard, lemonade dripped out of the socket. I thought "may as well, can't make it worse" and washed the lot very thoroughly with cold tapwater. Left it all to dry for a day, gave it all a bit of a blowdry from a hairdryer on low setting because I was impatient, put it back together and powered it up with my finger on the switch in case things started burning. I was more than half expecting it to trip the house safety, but it just booted up as normal like nothing had happening.

I wouldn't do it deliberately, though. Only as a last resort for something that was probably broken and not easily replaced.
 
I've washed a computer with a garden hose once, it worked fine after drying with compressed air and isopropyl alcohol

P.S.: before someones says DON'T DO THIS, the computer was in a flood, full of mud inside.
 
I once washed a Pentium 3 motherboard in the bath as it was broken and wouldn't boot. I was a kid at the time so didn't really understand anything but thought what the hell. Left it to dry and after a few days it booted up. Only a few times then it went again.

I have taken keyboards apart and individually cleaned each key but don't have time for that anymore!
 
My housemate put the kettle through our dishwasher several years ago... electrically, it was fine (not exactly microelectronics), but the detergent knackered the plastic and the seals round the element, and every cuppa thereafter tasted like burnt plastic.
He bought a new kettle the next day... :)

My point: you may get away with it, but probably best not to wash keyboards in dishwashers.
 
My housemate put the kettle through our dishwasher several years ago... electrically, it was fine (not exactly microelectronics), but the detergent knackered the plastic and the seals round the element, and every cuppa thereafter tasted like burnt plastic.
He bought a new kettle the next day... :)

My point: you may get away with it, but probably best not to wash keyboards in dishwashers.

Yeah, my earphones have been through the washing machine a few times. I'm sure they sound better each time afterwards.
 
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