Cannot disassemble/clean K800 Keyboard..halp

Similar situation happened to me the other day, I spilled water all over my Das Ultimate. Since I didn't have a key remover I used toenail clippers to lift up the keys.

Anything that can get under the keys to pop them up should do the trick.

Damn. That wireless backlit sucker has a big battery in there too.

Hopefully it wasn't on your lap or you may never have children.

Sometimes they hide the screws under the pullout feet, the label, or even the rubber pads.

A google search brought me here, and I would just like to point out, that over the x-mas break, my lovely wife got me this k800 keyboard, and my retard self spilled some kind of sticky liquid inside the spacebar. After some very delicate and very tense moments, I was able to dissassemble the space bar, and wipe with a damp paper towel, and clean the liquid out. My spacebar is back to it's original self, and now my wife will not be mad at me for ruining the fancy keyboard she bought me.

Just remember to be careful when taking the spacebar out, there might be an instance where you think you broke it (I know I was, hehe), but it snapped back together and my spacebar is as good as new.

You can dissassemble by peeling back the black matt that covers the base. Just start from the front and peel back. You need to use quite a bit of force as the double sided tape is pretty sticky!. Then remove al the screws and pry apart the black plastic top from the clear surround. Again you need quite a bit of force. You may find that some bits of plastic get broken intenally, but it should not be a real issue, as it will all be hidden when you reassemble.

eventually you will be able to remove the keyboard from the rest of the housing and give it a good clean in water. Dry off and then plug back in. Test and if all ok, reassemble properly, else try cleaning again.

Cheers,

Grant Millgate.

My wife dumped a cosmo on her k800 and I had to pause for a moment of silence since we just brought it a few months ago.

I found this stire googling and came across this thread.

There were only a few keys that became sticky and were working correctly, the worst was the left ctrl key. I decided to be brave and I try to take the key off without breaking it.

Using the tip of her cuticle trimmer I was able to carefully lift the key out - but being *very** careful saved me because I discovered a very important thing - go from the bottom!

There are four pieces to the key - The cap, the clear plastic key, and the plastic part that attached to the key and the keyboard. If you try to pop out the key from the top, you will most certainly break these fragile plastic clips and be unable to re-attach it.

First I recommend that you read throught he entire proces sbefore starting and take pictures at each step so you can remember what it looked like before you started

The steps I used are:
1. Using the blade of the cuticle trimmer I grabbed the black part of the key cap (from the bottom) and gently pryed up bottom left side until I heard a very faint click. Then I gently pryed up the bottom right side and the cap came off, leaving the clear plastic key exposed.

2. Now you should be able to see how bad the damage from the liquid is - but you will also notice that only the bottom part of the clear key has clips. The top part of the clear key sort of slides into the white plastic piece. So if you were to pry form the top and break those tabs the key would not re-attach. Again, with the tip of the blade I gently applied upward pressure ensuring to only be pulling up on the clear plastic part and not the white piece and eventually the two lower clips popped up.

3. I ended up removing the white piece as well, as it was fairly sticky and I didn't want to have to do this twice. The white plastic part has the same design, clips on the bottom and tabs on the top. So if you try to pry from the top you will break them.

4. I used Rubbing alcohol and a qtip to clean the area- NO WATER.

5.Finally I just reversed the process. Again, the top parts do not press into place. If you press them you will break them. You must gently slide the top par into the tab and them snap the clips on the bottom half. Do the same with the clear key as it also has plastic tabs at the top and clips at the bottom.

Hope this helps someone!

Edit:
For those that do not know here's what a cuticle trimmer looks like- http://www.drugstore.com/products/prod.asp?pid=36920&catid=196099&aid=338666&aparam=36920

an x-acto knife may be OK but the cuticle cutting blade is curved so it is easier to pry up the keys imho.
Edited by cyberfreak - 9/16/12 at 3:05pm

I recommend the ForkOdeath and DeOxit, items 1 and 2 here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/xcpvh/rmechanicalkeyboards_toolkit_item_6_want_to_clean/

And this OCN repair guide:
http://www.overclock.net/t/1255538/help-broken-my-qpad-mechanical-keyboard-after-spill

Grant,
Without your post, I would not have ventured this far. Tried spraying the detached keyboard with NICON Multiple Cleaning Spray and drying with the wife's hair dryer. It failed to do the trick. Would you, or anyone else here, care to elaborate a bit more on the cleaning process.
By the way, my spill was Guiness Stout, that black Irish beer.
Thank you in advance.
KMTan
Kuala Lumpur.

Oh wait, that was the OLD guide.

New IMPROVED KEYBOARD SPILL GUIDE is here:

http://imgur.com/a/9sHx7