Can I safely use contact cleaner instead of compressed air to clean stuck keys of a butterfly keyboard?

I have a stuck key on the butterfly keyboard of a MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2016)

and read the instructions at How to clean the keyboard of your MacBook or MacBook Pro - Apple Support.

There they reference compressed air.


I happen to have contact cleaner, compressed air with a cleaning agent added to it. Can I safely use the contact cleaner instead of compressed air to clean the stuck key of the butterfly keyboard?

Posted on Apr 15, 2018 10:52 AM

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Posted on Apr 16, 2018 1:21 PM

There re no contacts in there to be cleaned.


Modern keyboards sense changes in capacitance as pressure increases between printed traces on two plastic sheets, one with row (east-west) traces, one with column (north-south) traces.


Spraying solvent into an all-plastic environment will end badly.

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