3M Keyboard cleaner kit, White (674)
by 3M
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Customer Review: Good product, but pricey
Summary: 4 Stars
Just received this product a couple days ago. It's basically a container of liquid, a weirdly shaped sponge/scrub tool, and a cloth for wiping off the excess gunk.
I first tried it on my Filco keyboard (cherry brown mx switches if you want to know) to see if it would get rid of some of the shininess on the keycaps. Well, it didn't, BUT -- the keys felt really clean when I typed on them, so there was definitely an improvement.
I then took it to work and used it on my apple low-profile keyboard (the wired one). After a couple years of using this keyboard, it had collected a considerable amount of dirt. A few months ago I tried cleaning it with just water and a cloth, and it pretty much was a total failure. Took me about an hour and really hurt my hands afterwards. So I was very interested to see what this would do. It was really amazing to see this product very easily restore the keys to their original white color. The amount of gunk I removed made the sponge turn brown! Yuck. After wiping the keyboard with the included cloth, it looked brand new. Awesome.
CONCLUSION:
Good product, a little pricey, but you'd probably waste that money on other things anyway, right?
Customer Review: Does what it looks like it'd do
Summary: 4 Stars
The other reviewer said that this product does nothing for the stuff under your keys and he's right. But it doesn't claim to either. Keeping computers clean can require many products. For keyboards its best to use a can of air to blow out the things under the keys and then to use this product. We've been doing that successfully with this product (and canned air) in our public computer lab for several years now. keyboard failures have dropped and are true failures of the keyboard hardware as a result.
If you still have a ball mouse, there is also a product that can clean the inside of the mouse.
I would also like to remind you (and save you some repair/replacement money) that keyboards and mice are also electronic equipment. Don't use alot of the liquid supplied, and make sure that the computer is turned off before cleaning.
Customer Review: The right tools for the job especially IBM model M keyboards
Summary: 5 Stars
This keyboard cleaning kit comes with
1) A cleaning tool with a small scrubber and keyboard shaped sponge-like tool
2) soft wiping cloths(they seem like the ones you use to clean glasses)
3) cleaning solution (which includes trisodium phosphate so you know it will actually work)
Theres nothing magic in this box but they are the right tools for the job.
Follow the instructions including turn off your computer first before cleaning.
If you have a model m keyboard like I do, thats 10-15 years old it may have gotten very dirty, this
comes with everything you need to clean it (except maybe a key cap removal tool) and it does work
if you are willing to scrub a little bit.
At less than $6 you cant beat it.
Customer Review: Does Exactly What It's Designed To
Summary: 5 Stars
The reviewer who raked this product is silly -blaming the product because he didn't have the common sense to look up what the product does. Hello? -if there's no online description how about trying the 3M site? There's a clear description there, along with a photograph of the product being used. The fact is, this does exactly what it is designed to do -clean all the muck that builds up between and on keys. And it's great for that. There are two pointed sponge prongs on each end of a sponge pad. You put the cleaner on the tips of the prongs, which fit perfectly over each key so that you can clean all four side of the key. To get under keys there is only one way -compressed air.
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I recommend this product.
Customer Review: isn't worth the package it's in
Summary: 1 Stars
When I got this thing from UPS it was in this huge box(Parcel would have been easier for me and u) I had trouble getting it from my nieghbor(whom owr UPS deleverer always gets the wrong adress) and it turned out to be a peice of 50c junk. thier is no picture here to describe it. I will never buy another item without information on it when shopping online. It consists of a squirt bottle filled with oil, a styrophoam sponge with two prongs and that is about it. You run the pronged sponge down the grooves of your keys. It does little to what is underneath the keys(cat hair, crumbs ect.) I had paid a good eight bux for it(can get a dust vac for that!)