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I spilled water on my keyboard and opened it up to clean it, luckily no damage. This 2020 keyboard is designed spill proof so any spills can be cleaned up by removing the keys only. As I turned my keyboard over the water leaked into the bottom section so I opened it up to remove all the fluid.
Difficulty - medium - quite a bit of force needed to remove the wrist panel. Otherwise, pretty easy, as all the screws are the same size but there are many of them.
Tools needed:
1 angled plastic spudger to remove keys
1 small Philips screwdriver
1 small flat screwdriver or small knife – to remove rubber feet and stickers covering screws
Warnings:
Removing the wrist panel requires quite a bit of force, so, likely you will break some clips. With all other steps, do so carefully and you’ll have a fully functioning keyboard once re-assembled.
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The attached Feature PDF has better steps and photos.
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if you're only repairing a spill then you should only need to remove the keys - refer to the key removal guide.
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Flip the keyboard over, using a small flat screwdriver or sharp knife, remove the rubber feet.
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Remove all 5 screws using a small phillips screwdriver.
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Now that the back is unscrewed, flip the keyboard back facing up. Removing the pad is moderately difficult and needs quite a bit of force as the pad is held down by a lot of tight clips and you may end up breaking a few.
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See photo. The panel slides in from the top using nubs and the clips are all along the bottom that need to be forcefully pulled out. Can try using a spudger to loosen the clips - there are 16 that run along the bottom and sides
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With the wrist pad removed, the 11 screws are exposed and can be removed
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there are screws hidden underneath certain keys, once the keys are removed, (refer to key removal guide) peel off the sticker using a flat screwdriver or sharp knife
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image shows location of all hidden screws
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Remove all the screws
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Once you’ve removed all the screws the top panel can come off relatively easily - using a spudger to pry it loose and a bit of jiggling. There are no clips holding this down. Be careful lifting the top panel to ensure it does not pull the white keyboard layout up with it.
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All done!
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I found this post, because I wanted to find out if I could remove the caps without breaking something. Thank you!
I discovered, that if you press the 'N' key a little bit too strong, it gets locked in place. It seems like the key gets stuck under the middle part of the keyboard. Without tools, it's quite tricky to pry it back up. I'd like to know if this is a common issue, or if it's just my keyboard. Did you experience something similar?
@abernhard I experienced the same thing but for my right CTRL key. I thought my keyboard was faulty because it would stop typing at times and doing weird cap. But I realized after a while that the only thing responding when I typed were the CTRL shortcuts like Close, save as, select all etc. I then noticed the right CTRL key was depressed all the way down and stuck there.
@carln Thank you for this guide! This will certainly help me with my issue.
@abernhard I experienced the same thing with the N key. I used the part of this guide which shows how to remove the keys and then I removed the N key and cleaned the part itself and the actual keyboard area under the key where it seemed like there was something sticky there. Once I did that, it doesn't happen anymore. (For now)
