Cleaning your electronics?

How do you clean your electronic equipment? I'm always going at my keyboard, comp and little machines with a feather duster. But what about a laptop screen? Or just in general, safe ways to wipe things down and get them really clean?

I like to be clean.

Wow is your username some kind of superbutt?

I clean my monitor screen w/a paper towel & rubbing alcohol.

abbott i missed ya!

rubbing alcohol, ok. maybe i can use that on my synth keys

I also like to buy the Swiffer sweeper things but just use them as dustrags.

This may be my most exorbitant thing I do.

wow don't give me anymore ideas

i'm really exorbitant with paper towel. sometimes if i'm cleaning the floor i'll be in like a cloud of papertowel, it's horrible

I used to clean my white sneaks with acetone but in the long run it fucks them up a little.

I tip my kbd upside down and bang it on the desk and always tons of cumbs come out ;_;

CRUMBS. Jesus.

Do not use any solvent or paper towels on an LCD, just FYI. Use only a damp, very soft cloth. Most LCDs come with such a thing, although it usually arrives dry.

compressed air

my computer is kind of a mess. i used to have these special wipes but i think they are bs. my dad once gave me these keyboard cleaning swabs that were awesome. but i have the 1st gen macbook palmrest discoloration thing going on that just makes it look DIRTY and the magic eraser did not work like my apple store friend said it would. will applecare cover this?

No, sorry.

Surm, I read online somewhere once that you can put your keyboard through the dishwasher. I didn't really believe it, but I tried it and it worked very well. The key is to dry it absolutely thoroughly before plugging it back in. Believing that discretion is the better part of valor, I left my keyboard on the radiator for a week before using it. All was well.

it's totally fine to put your whole computer in the shower with you. try it. really.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11384397

it's totally fine to put your whole computer in the shower with you. try it. really.

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I got carded for a can of air on Monday. This was a first and probably a last, since it's not a law, just a store policy. Radio Shack won't sell canned air to anyone under 18, since apparently some of the dimmer bulbs out there huff it to get high for three seconds. (Don't they know about nitrous oxide, at the very least?) I may have intoxicatingly beautiful, creamy skin, but I still don't look 18. The lady at Radio Shack was just being a hard-ass about store policy. I think she's new. She'll get to know me in time.

hahaha! i'm trying to imagine the look on your face

tested or not, i really don't think i'll ever have it in me to put my pretty little keyboard in the dishwasher (the one i don't have)

i've got a universal adaptor with settings for 6v, 7.5v and 9v. i've got a roberts radio which has a connector that says 7v next to it. if i set the adaptor to 7.5v and plug it into the radio, will it work fine or will it explode? is it worse to have it at 6v or 7.5v?

really want to use a power pack to save having to recharge batteries all the time, but petrified of blowing up my beautiful radio and having to cook in silence forever

don't look at me i touched the cpu in my pc over the weekend without grounding myself, apparently this is electronics 101 stuff

*doesn't look at darraghmac*

*hurries him out of the room*

siiigh

darnit does anyone know the answer to this? loathe to risk killing my radio to save the minor hassle of recharging batteries - but it would be nice if it works out. will anything but the *exact* voltage damage an electronic item? seem to recall killing an mp3 cd player (ahh, 2002) by plugging it into the wrong power pack.

I would try 7.5. A lot of audio equipment (guitar pedals, mic preamps, etc) can be run on different voltages and higher is usually better. I don't know about a radio but I'm sure it would be fine. something digital like an mp3 player might be different. you could start by trying 6v though because that almost certainly won't cause any harm. I don't really know anything about electronics technically so take that all with a grain of salt.

also keep in mind that the voltage that comes out of your wall isn't really a constant voltage either. it can fluctuate all over the place and that doesn't really cause any harm, so I don't think a 1.5v difference would be a big deal.

so its 7v dc in? if so 7.5 should not really be a problem because batteries will often exceed the given charge, so there should be a slippery aspect to the power it can handle.

that being said, two really key things:

1. Make sure that both are matched wrt DC or AC, if you plug an AC adapter into a DC in, bad things will happen.
2. Verify that the polarity of the adapter and the input are matched, if not see end of #1 above.

thanks guys! i'll report back tomorrow