Keyboard (vacuum) Cleaners

rancid-a · 21 Mar 2009 at 13:46

Can anyone recommend those USB vacuum cleaners? I heard they might be underpowered.

And has anyone ever used a normal vacuum cleaner to suck all the bits out of their keyboard? I'm scared I'll lose some of the keys!

rancid-a · 22 Mar 2009 at 10:04

Well I took my mums Dyson to my 'cheap' keyboard and it survived intact. But there's no way I'm forcing keys outta my new Steelseries keyboard, as much as I admire tchan4 for getting in there down n dirty

Noticed a can ful of compressed air on my bookshelf too, so next time I'll give it a blast with that

rancid-a · 22 Mar 2009 at 20:05

Alexdaredevilz said:
+1 just done it a min ago,and in my case all temps down 5degress

But surely you can't take a vacuum to a case? Anyone else doing this? What about static? God I dread to think what the inside of my (3yr) old PC looks like, if I thought it was safe to vacuum, I'd have given it a once over ages ago

rancid-a · 22 Mar 2009 at 22:03

Ucof said:
Vacuum it!

Just hold the nozzle in one hand, and the case in the other, (so you are grounding the nozzle) so no static will build up.

It's by FAR the best way to clean inside your PC

I'm going to give it a go! I'm sure the freezes I'm getting recently might have something to do with fans etc being clogged up with dust. Now if only I can find that bottle of 'Shake n Vac'

Oh my God. I've just set up my new Steelseries keyboard and after all I said about not yanking the keys out above... 2 keys were loose in the box! They go back in quite easy too I might add so later on, I might just wash the keys like some of you are already doing