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01-take-out-battery
Don't forget to unplug the laptop and remove its battery before you begin! You should let it hang...
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02-open-(1)
Essentially following mennerTan's advice (found here-- read it before following...
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04-open-(3)
... and keep pulling. You'll feel resistance and hear a loud click. Don't worry! The plastic is strong as well as flexible-- you're not breaking it.
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05-open-(4)
You can wrench the square key top to one side to free it.
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06-open-(5)
And it lifts right off. Dried congealed hot cocoa: that's what was making the keys stick.
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07-opened
So this is what the key looks like inside. The horseshoe-shaped plastic parts have been jarred apart...
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08-disassembling
Go ahead and take the horseshoe parts out. (You can see that one is more of a box and one is more of...
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09-isopropyl-alcohol
I soaked the key top and the horseshoes in rubbing alcohol to soften the goo.
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10-clean-(handkerchief)
To clean the keyboard itself, I used a handkerchief soaked in rubbing alcohol...
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11-clean-(bamboo-stick)
... and, for something pointed but absorbent and not too sharp, some bamboo skewers that had been...
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12-clean-(needle)
... and, finally, I scratched the tiniest crevices of the plastic parts clean with the point of a...
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13-empty-tilde
For comparison, I took the macbook's tilde off, too. (The key I had been working on was the U.) This...
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14-disassembled-flat
Here are the key's plastic pieces, as clean as I could get them. The yellow arrows show you where...
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15-reassembled-flat
And this is what the box and circle will look like when they're reassembled. Make sure you snap them...
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16-reassembling-(1)
The next step is to snap the box and circle into one another. You'll notice the circle has little...
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17-reassembling-(2)
Now the yellow lines point to where the pieces interlock. Good job, kid. You get a smiley face.
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18-assembled-flat-in-key
I think you'll have better luck if you stick the assembled plastic pieces into the keyboard and snap...
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Cleaning Macbook keys after...
