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I spilt pepsi on my MacBook Pro, have had it cleaned and diagnosed and everything is fine except for sticky keys. I’ve been told that I will need to replace the entire top shell at a huge cost. Is there anyway that i can clean it without replacing the entire top shell?
You can pop the individual keys off by carefully levering them from the left side. Give everything a thorough clean and reattach them. Heres a video illustrating the process.
Yeah. I seemed to have found a way.. mistakingly! A couple weeks ago I spilled some juice on my keyboard, thankfully nothing was damaged but i ended up with like 10 keys on my keyboard extremely sticky, and everyday it would just get worse… and it was just that more frustrating. I had used baby oil to moisten my skin randomly after a friend told me it was good.. My hands were still oiley and I was just responding to facebook chat, didn’t even know I had mistakenly greased up my keypad.. A couple hours later I notice that half the keys arent sticky anymore… like the backspace/enter keys etc. Obviously the other ones not so much because I barely used them! So best way is to grab a paper tower, apply baby oil and just clean your keyboard as you would if you used a cleaning agent. works like a charm
. baby oil worked for me as well. I ever so slightly lifted up on a side of the pesky key, (no need to remove the key). I depressed it several times and it no longer sticks. I then gave all of the keys a gentle wiping and the keyboard looks as new as ever. Update Oill & Air - My same key began sticking once again so I gave it a better treatment this time gently lift one SIDE of the pesky key with the rounded curved part of a paper clip. Let some baby oil drip along the paper clip and get under the key. While the key is still gently pried up, use forced air from a dust remover canister with a long nozzle to clean the space and to move the oil around. Then repeat on the other side of the key……
Confirmed, spilt apple juice on keyboard, seemed ok until the next day when the spacebar had become seriously sticky. Popped the spacebar off using a plectrum (scary!!) and used a cotton bud with a tiny drop of baby oil on it!! popped the bar back on until it clicked. voila!! perfect just like it never happened!! (Macbook Pro Retina Late 2013)
Y’all are life-savers, thanks so much for the advice! The baby oil didn’t work so well for me, but I put dipped a cotton ball into some rubbing alcohol and squeezed it into the spaces around the sticky keys. Then, used a hair dryer on ‘cool’ setting to blow the alcohol around and dry it up. Worked instantly!!
I’ve just cleaned mine too! I accidentally spilt syrup on one of my keys! ( I know, end of the world! ) Quickly wiped it up and it seemed fine, but the key started sticking more and more.. So I just clicked up the key with a little force from the bottom, soaked a cotton bud in warm soapy water, squeezed it a bit so it was only damp, and then wiped around under the key. Lifted the flicky bit up and wiped around it, put the key back in place, clicked it down, and it’s absolutely perfect! Like nothing happened! Now just need to be more careful.. Thanks for the tips!
Does the fact that Apple’s instructions appear to contradict the use of things like compressed air and such — much less baby oil — to clean bother any one reading all these suggestions?
I tried this, it seemed to work with the keys except the space bar. It seems like the space bar it seems stuck or something
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ok the mac community seems soft…. nobody spilled BEER on their macbooks? chai, latte, pomegranate juice….. I have a 2008 macbook pro keys were sticky, I sprayed wd40 (dispaces moisture!) into a cup, then using a small q-tip I applied a mostly dry q-tip swipe across the plastic scissor type connector to lube up the moving part, snapped the key back on, voila! also worked for the sticky noisy touchpad too.
