you could use this to clean your keyboard but it's definitely one of the least effective ways
to do it has this ever happened to you oh no I spilled cat food all over my keyboard well
then howdy hey I'm hippiotech and I'm gonna tell you how you can clean your keyboard the
best so I have this keyboard and it's perfect and wonderful and custom but there's one big problem
with it it's incredibly dirty these keycaps are not supposed to have a Grime layer on them and
just look at these arrow keys dear God but have no fear cleaning your keyboard is incredibly easy
and today I'm gonna show you how to do it cleaning your keyboard will only take like 15 minutes maybe
an hour but it's not that bad bear with me yeah now the first step to cleaning your keyboard is
trying to figure out what part you actually need to clean are you the type of person that has a
dirty keyboard because you lose a lot of hair or are you the type of person that has a dirty
keyboard because you sweat a lot of Cheetos on it now for me it's a little bit of both not gonna lie
so I'm gonna be completely cleaning this whole entire thing now the first step is taking off
all of the keycaps in order to do this you need a keycap puller you can get one with the link
down below if this is your first time cleaning a keyboard and you've never removed a keycap before
you just want to take your keycap puller and get the wire bit around one of your keycaps then you
just pull up and your keycap has come off now you might be wondering hey tipio why would I
ever clean my keyboard I actually like it really dirty well if you don't then the extra layers of
oil and Cheeto dust will actually help degrade your keycaps sooner and then you'll end up with
a keycap set that's kind of melted almost oh and I bet your desk mat's pretty dirty too as
a bonus all also show you how to clean it now as I said before take every keycap off if you don't
know the layout of your keyboard I recommend you just take a picture of it beforehand that way you
can remember what it looks like afterwards you can try and Erase Me by taking off your keycaps
faster than me but good luck now as you start to get your keycaps off I recommend wearing
a hazmat suit and trying not to gag at how disgusting your keyboard is beneath the keycap
now here's something really important if you're working with a gaming keyboard your spacebar and
other big Keys might have a little lock on them this is a certain type of stabilizer and let me
go over that real fast so when you're taking those off just be a little bit more careful
because you might have a wire like this which is a co-star stabilizer putting these back on
can be a little bit tricky if you did what I just did and forced it off just make sure you slide it
on with Grace so I'm also cleaning my keyboard for the first time in a while here with you let's just
inspect the damage oh no oh no I actually feel like I shouldn't be showing you this this is so
disgusting now that you've taken all the keycaps off set them to the side for later as I have a
special way that we're gonna clean those then grab your keyboard and inspect the damages now
take close attention to around your stabilizers as these are going to be probably your most gunked up
Keys especially with hair cleaning these is really important as it's going to make your keyboard tick
a lot less mine for example look absolutely horrifying and are full of crumbs but again
cleaning it won't be that bad also if you're wondering why my keyboard might look different
than you doors it's because it's an electro capacitive keyboard so instead of Cherry MX style
switches these are just a little bit different looking but that doesn't change how we're going
to clean it now the first step of cleaning it I recommend using some type of compressed air
this could be one of the really cheap ones that you buy from like Best Buy or one of the random
electric blowers that you can find online now for the first step take the compressed air and take
your keyboard outside I seriously recommend you do this next part outside it is way too gross to
do inside but for your sake I'm gonna do it inside because I'm Tethered to my computer recording this
right now so we're gonna hold the keyboard upside down and then just go over it with a couple sprays
also one strategy that you can do is called the uh the drop and Pat
Pat Drop it and Pat Pat Pat Pat this will get some of the really
stubborn crumbs out but you have to be careful if your keyboard is Wireless
oh my God there's a higher mode goodbye crumbs I also recommend if you have it to go over it with
some type of keyboard cleaning brush I'll have one linked down below it's also incredibly good
etiquette to brush your cat if she's helping you clean your keyboard now already your keyboard is
probably looking a ton cleaner this would have gotten rid of most of the crumbs in most of the
hair but if you're someone that has some stubborn stains in your keyboard we might have to go deeper
yeah now the first thing you can do to deep clean your board a little bit is take a slightly damp
Q-tip and just kind of rub along the areas that look pretty gross this will help you clean up
stuff a little bit and you can also try to get some of those extra little crumbs out of there
the other thing that I really like to do is just use a little alcohol lens cleaning wipe
and it can really help with those stuck on sweat stains If sweat was Dripping into your
keyboard these also work really great for spot cleaning the outside of your case that's ended
up quite dirty now with all of that done you've got a mostly clean base and it's time to move on
to the next step and probably the dirtiest step the keycaps yeah now if you're anything like me
your keycaps are probably incredibly disgusting covered in Gunk dust Cheetos whatever we're not
gonna talk about it I won't tell but what I will tell is the best way that you can clean these now
there's definitely a couple of different methods if you want to keep them on your keyboard then you
can theoretically use one of those wipes that we just talked about in the last part of the video
but really the best way to clean them is with soap and water to clean your keycaps I recommend you
first start with a large bowl and fill it with the hottest water you could possibly handle with your
hands then get a little bit of dish soap put it in there and get it nice and soapy like you see here
then just grab yourself a little kitchen sponge as we're gonna need that soon next just grab all
of your keycaps and put them in there they're having a little bath it's bath time for keycaps
then to clean them I mean it's kind of similar to how you'd clean your dishes if you ever actually
did that and maybe you should listen to your mom already this keycap looks incred incredibly
pristine almost like the first day that I used it I recommend you let these guys just sit in here
for about 10 to 15 minutes as that's going to give them enough time for all the stuff that's on them
to kind of break down with the dish soap now this might seem like a little bit of extra effort but
you probably wash your clothes at least once to twice a month so you can wash your keycaps once
or twice a year this is also a great way to trick yourself into washing your hands as I know a lot
of you probably don't do that either especially after spending a long time at your desk doing
who knows what so after you've kind of manually washed off the keycaps and then they've sat in
the soap solution for about 15 minutes you want to take them over to your sink and give them a good
rinse now make sure if your sink has a garbage disposal you plug it up that way your keycaps
don't go down it because that could be really really dangerous if you have to stick your hand
down there like an idiot once you've got them all rinsed and there's no more soap on them go ahead
and just toss them with a paper towel and get them fully dried out it's incredible important
that you do not put the keycaps back on your keyboard when they are still moist so give them
a few hours to dry out put them in front of a fan dry them off manually with a paper towel whatever
you need to do once you've done all of that your keycaps should be incredibly clean this should
have gotten rid of all the dust all the sweat all the gamer Gunk whatever you want to call it
and they should look but we've got one final step left and this is probably the most important one
oh yeah earlier in the video I mentioned I'll tell you how to clean your desk mats as well I'm
no stranger to spilling things on desk mats I'm no stranger to stains here's a stain from my cat
who knocked over my food yesterday here's a stain from who knows what you can clean your desk mat in
a couple different ways my personal favorite is you just Chuck it in your washing machine
on the delicate cycle and then leave it to air dry outside I recommend setting your spin to as
low as humanly possible if not just off or what you can also do is this now to clean your desk
mat I recommend you use a little bit of laundry detergent and a wet sponge then spot treat your
really really bad spots with just a few drops that's really all you need I recommend you let
the laundry detergent sit for at least a couple minutes before moving on to the next step then
once you've let the laundry detergent sit it's time to go in and scrub and just like that you've
removed most stains from your desk mat if it's something that really really is stuck in there
like you got a bloody nose or something maybe use a little bit of hydrogen peroxide or something
like that if you're really sensitive to detergents you can go over it with another layer of water and
then leave it to hang dry outside also if you're wondering what this desk mat is it's my Springtime
desk mat that you can get in stock for 24.99 from kineticlabs.com a great place to clean your desk
mats is actually in a bathtub if you have one you can turn the water on and the detergent
will definitely assist you now some of you might be wondering I found this thing on Amazon that's
like a cleaning Putty for a keyboard you could use this to clean your keyboard but it's definitely
one of the least effective ways to do it like you're better off just cleaning your keyboard the
normal way and then playing with it because it's fun sure it'll pick up some surface level dust
but there's also just as much chance that it seeps into your keyboard and messes with it in some type
of way like this stuff is basically a liquid so if you left it long enough on your keyboard it's
gonna seep through sure that might mean it might pick up some stuff in between the cracks of your
keycaps but I genuinely cannot recommend it except more than laughs now once your keycaps are dry
go ahead and pour them out and it's time to put them back on your keyboard which hopefully you've
cleaned the base of by now also hopefully you took a picture or at least remember the layout of
your keyboard as you'll be putting these back on completely blind there's nothing special you need
to know when putting on the keycaps just put them back on so I'm going to use a little bit of magic
and just like that your keyboard is nice and clean and hopefully a lot better for the next
couple months if this video helped you out then go ahead and clean up that subscribe button for
me because I think oh is there is there something on that you might have to get that off for me