Keyboard In Acetone
Keyboard In Acetone
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Wednesday, January 27, 2021
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I had to prise my mouse apart recently to clear some gunk out of a button microswitch. got it all working fine, back together, then had to glue the slidey pads back that covered up a couple of screws. Was working like brand new.
then I cleaned a tiny bit of excess glue off with some acetone and 10 minutes later threw it in the bin.
I doubly approve of this image:
1.) C̶h̶e̶m̶i̶c̶a̶l̶ reactions are cool
2.) That right there is one of the worst keyboards ever conceived and it deserves nothing less than a bath of a̶c̶i̶d̶
If I want to repeat this reaction at home, what precautions do I need to take to avoid death
This whole channel is full of cool stuff and only has 750 subscribers
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0SZ6ULH0ZjigyW_2ls0xUQ
edit: 747->767 in ~ 3 hours
Does that make a keytone?
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LusMOtGwTrA
All I could hear while watching this was My Heart Will Go On.
I know nothing about chemicals, I was expecting the acetone to clean it 🙁
So…this is just the casing, right? Acetone shouldn’t do much of anything to the PCB inside.
It got the dip
I used to work in laboratory and most of the keyboards had at least a few deformed keys due to stuff like this. Sometimes they’d get so bad the keys would “melt” themselves stuck. Acetonitrile (methyl cyanide) was the biggest culprit.
Share that to r/mechanicalkeyboards
How many keyboards would it take before there’s not enough acetone left to melt any more keyboards?
Oooh, I did this once! By accident.. I was using nail polish remover, and the bottle spilled. It got onto my land line handset, and the thing tried to literally melt onto my skin. Instantly got thrown away, and I had plastic residue on my skin for days.
0/10 do not recommend, smells horrid.
This is why I keep my keyboards suspended in an emulsion of mineral oil and DOT4 brake fluid.
The deserved fate of rubberdomes.
/r/OddlySatisfying
I use quite a bit of acetone in my lab. Not long ago I spilled some on my calculator, and now the buttons won’t press down as they are melted together
If you were to evaporate off the acetone, could you use the polymer or has it been chemically altered by the acetone?
You might say things got…out of CTRL.
*What happens to your brain after injecting only one marijuana.*
Could acetone be used to solve the problem of breaking down plastic waste?
I wanna see one in DMSO!
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How long would this take?
r/acetone
Is this like nail polish remover strength, or some industrial shit?
How long does it take to melt the keyboard down like that?
Did anyone else hear the breaking bad theme in their head?
Anybody know how long this took?
Is the circuit board in the keyboard also melted by the acetone?
I’ve always wondered how bad is acetone on your skin.
I got on my hands a couple times washing glass in the lab. I assume nothing bad considering my hands are ok.
This hurts to watch
This kills the keyboard.
…*gently pushes bottle of nail-polish remover away from laptop*
How the fuck does sharpie not dissapear with this shit??
This is why I find it hard to believe when someone tells me they couldn’t get floor adhesive off their floors with acetone. Look how powerful this shit is!
Overlayed with the titanic theme.
F
I once tried to clean my plastic labglasses with acetone, I no longer have any and now posses a grave danger to my own eyes
Wont play wtf
What about the mobo? Removed ahead of time or is acetone that good?
you should repost to /r/MechanicalKeyboards , eveyone loves a bit of rubber dome destruction
The techrax we need
But why?
/r/mechanicalkeyboards would love this
Oh god not this trend again
OP is Judge Doom
Me not realizing what acetone is: “Oh cool! Is this an easy way to clean…my……keyboard… Oh.”
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“There is one more chip… In here…”
RIP Key800 :'(
Somehow I found this disturbing!!
NSFMR
That’s why you should buy a wood or aluminum keyboard.
So DON’T use acetone to clean my keyboard. Got it.
So what you’re saying is I shouldn’t use acetone to clean my keyboard?
Nice gif, you can actually use acetone vapor smoothing for smoothing 3d printed abs parts
Put…put your dick in it
So that’s what my teammates on league are doing
Is that real time ?! Looks amazing!
It’s a membrane. /r/mechanical_keyboards approves.
This happens because acetone molecules are nonpolar, so they are symmetrically shaped and have an equal distribution of charge. Water is polar, and so is sugar, for example. Polar molecules dissolve other polar molecules. Since acetone is nonpolar, it can dissolve nonpolar molecules, such as those making up the majority of the keyboard.