Clean a Computer Keyboard

Video Transcript

"Hi. My name is Dave Andrews. Today I'm going to show you clean a computer keyboard. There's two things you need in order to do this. First is a little piece of microfiber cloth that you can get at a computer stores or office stores, just about anywhere. This is real good for getting oil off of the keyboard. The second thing we're going to use is a little air duster container here that you can get at just about any computer or office store. Let's start with the cloth. Basically what I'm going to do is I'm going to try to get oil off of the keys on this keyboard. By taking my cloth and I'm just going to rub it over the top of each of these keys. It looks like it has a little bit of oil built up on it or any kind of liquid or anything. Just kind of rub it on there. You don't really have to push and scrub really hard. You just kind of rub it across the surface and let the cloth do the work of drying up what is stuck to the top of that key. Now, the very next step after we're done with the cloth is to take our air duster container here. It has a little straw usually that comes with it for directing the air. Stick that straw in there good and tight. Let's test it here. Alright. Now, what you are going to do is you are going to hold this kind of at a forty-five degree angle from the keyboard. You don't want to go straight down on it, because what will happen is that it will condense and it'll spurt out a liquid. And we don't want that to happen. We just want air to come out of this thing. So hold it at a little bit of an angle and just do quick bursts like that right there. And try to get into the cracks on that keyboard. You don't want to hold the button down too long on your air duster because like I said, that will cause it to condense. So, just try to get into the cracks of the keyboard. Do quick little bursts to get the air to go under the key and then to go back out. That's the motion we're trying to get. Under the key and then back out to get the dust out from under it. So, let's do that for your keys on your keyboard. We'll want to inspect your progress for each one of these. Whoops! Hit a little to hard there and as you can see it condensed. Now if that is something that happens it's nothing that you need to worry about too much. Just take a little bit of your microfiber and kind of dry it up as best you can. My name is Dave Andrews and I've just showed you how to clean a computer keyboard."