Corsair Strafe sticky and scratchy after spill

[palermo16p]

Hey, so basically there was a small cup of apple juice spilled on maybe 30% of the keyboard.

I quickly unplugged it, let it dry.
The switches were really sticky and so I cleaned them using a straw to apply hot water inside of the switch then spammed it, this seemed to have done the job, but when the switches dried up, they became sticky again and now when I press them down it feels like there is a lack of lube or something, feels like they are scratching.

Im not sure how to proceed here, should I go out and buy some kind of lube, or maybe I didn’t clean them well enough?

It’s the first time I’ve been in this situation, so I thought I would ask.

I’m hoping somebody here can help, would really appreciate it.

[jmarket]

Letting it dry with the juice on there hasn’t helped, but the best bet is to try giving it a good cleaning with Methylated spirits. You might know that as denatured alcohol. You could even use isopropyl, or dare I say Brakecleaner. Brakecleaner would work good because you can spray it on and it wont hurt electrical contacts. Repeat it several times and if you can take off the keys it would help.

Oh and don’t have anything wet and sticky near a keyboard, beer is better.ops:

[palermo16p]

Letting it dry with the juice on there hasn’t helped, but the best bet is to try giving it a good cleaning with Methylated spirits. You might know that as denatured alcohol. You could even use isopropyl, or dare I say Brakecleaner. Brakecleaner would work good because you can spray it on and it wont hurt electrical contacts. Repeat it several times and if you can take off the keys it would help.

Oh and don’t have anything wet and sticky near a keyboard, beer is better.ops:

So, I tried the alcohol, some of the keys feel better now, but a lot of them feel the same for some reason… I made sure to clean all of them and they felt smooth when i spammed them for a bit, but after drying it seems like really only 2 or 3 keys got better and the rest stayed the same. I guess i will just try to clean the bad ones again…

[Bruce]

perhaps some WD40 or CRC20 at this stage can’t hurt.
personally, I think all we are doing is delaying the inevitable - electronics and liquids do not mix.
i’d be budgeting for a new keyboard and putting this down to an expensive learning experience.

[jmarket]

Dont be afraid to really soak the keyboard, for an expensive keyboard it is really worth giving it a good douse. Try the brakeclean too, and spray plenty on it.

BTW: no need to quote previous posts.

[palermo16p]

Well, I had this idea that I could just swap out the switches from the Q W E R.. Keys with the once on the right side of my keyboard, like the nunpad and stuff, as I never use those keys anyway.
But I assume the switches are soldered to the board, right.. Or would there be a way to get them out?

[Bruce]

each key has an ASCII assignment, so yes, if you may move the numpad pad keys, but they will still be numpad keys.

[phillpower2]

Any update?

[palermo16p]

Oh sorry about that, I completely forgot about this post, I basically just cleaned the switches with alcohol and then put some WD40 on, the keyboard is all good now. Thank you guys for the help.

[phillpower2]

No problem, glad you got it sorted and thanks for letting us know that you no longer required assistance (y)