Need to clean my Aluminum Keyboard

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Need to clean my Aluminum Keyboard

I have an Apple A1243 aluminum keyboard and owing to an accident with a can of Red Bull, my numbers pad on the right hand side of the keyboard needs to be cleaned as some of the keys are sticking down.
Does anyone know how to safely open up this keyboard?

And yes, I am an idiot for letting a can of Red Bull sit next to my keyboard!

Intel chip iMac 17 inch, 2 Gig RAM, Mac OS X (10.4.8), 2006 iMac & Macbook(both2GHz intel duo), MB Air (128gig ssd), 5G 80 gig iPod *2,

Posted on Mar 6, 2009 9:23 AM

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Limnos

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Mar 6, 2009 9:29 AM in response to chrisasha

http://www.google.com/search?q=cleanAluminumKeyboard

[Clean and Repair your Mac keyboard: How-To Guide|http://lancej.blogspot.com/2008/04/clean-and-repair-your-mac-keyboard-how .html]

[Keyboard Repair|http://www.mactech.com:16080/articles/mactech/Vol.05/05.01/Keyboardrepai r/index.html]

[Apple Pro Keyboard repair|http://www.technology.niagarac.on.ca/people/bgracey/prokeyboardrepair.ht ml]

[Apple USB Keyboard (model M2452) repair|http://www.technology.niagarac.on.ca/people/bgracey/usbkeyboard/usbkeybo ard.html]

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chrisasha Author

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Mar 6, 2009 10:02 AM in response to Limnos

Thanks for the posting but I did search Google before I posted and none of the links you've suggested are actually for the a1243 keyboard.
Thanks for the suggestion anyway...

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Limnos

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Mar 6, 2009 10:35 AM in response to chrisasha

http://skeltoac.com/2007/10/22/apple-keyboard-aluminum-keycap-removal/

A lot of newer keyboards are not designed to be re-opened. It seems that you can open them but it involves breaking things that need to be re-glued.

Have you tried the dishwasher idea yet? 😉

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