Isopropyl alcohol can damage plastics. I prefer distilled water for surface cleaning.
Yep, it can make keycaps start to disintegrate. Mechanical keycaps, the stem starts to split in half and fall off the switch.
note that this damage is not necessarily in the form of dissolving. it causes some plastics to develop fractures, as if you had dropped it. dont use iso on plastic unless you know it is a kind that it is safe for.
BTW, i just just want to plug for this fact: we are all totally brainwashed by marketing that we need special cleaners for each specific thing. dishsoap or some general purpose soap like Dr bronners and water works fine for just about everything.
Oh that's a good call. I've been using some gentle lens cleaner spray
I think it could very well be dissolving at least a coating. I would use more dilute IPA. ๐
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Some plastics get gummy and start to disintegrate as thet age. You might be rubbing off the aged/oxidized plastic.
I just use glass spray
I use baby wipes. Works great.
ain't that too much water for an electronic device?
I mean, baby wipes for the keys as well? doesn't it fall to they board beneath?
I don't think they're that wet. Not the ones I use anyway. I just turn off the laptop and wipe it down, keys and all. If you wanted you could leave it to air out for a while. But if you've seen under a keyboard, it's all a lot of plastic and then the switches. You could even spill a drink on a laptop and it'll be fine if you let it dry.
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