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Nachdem ich nichts im Netz fand, hier nun schön in Englisch und für alle:
»Wie man eine Macbook Pro Tastatur ausbaut und reinigt«

…after it was misused by apple juice, coffee and beer

In this article I will inform you about how to remove, clean and reinstall the keys of an Apple Macbook Pro. It was my own Macbook, so you can trust me. I did the cleaning yesterday, and it worked very well.

First Step: Removing the dirty keys

Note: You don’t have to remove the upper case!!!

Every Key is fixed on 3 points that are marked by the green cyrcles in the image above. You have to carefully push the little white plastic arms of the key out of their anchor with an acute tool like shown in the next image:

After this procedure the macbook looks like this: (The space key is a bit tricky!)

Second Step: Cleaning the Case

Now I cleaned the naked case with a toothbrush. Be careful with the little rubber nipples on each key-socket!

Third Step: Cleaning the Keys

You need a big glas with water and soap in it, like this one:

Put your keys in it, close it and shake it. Especially the closing mechanism of every key has to get very clean

Now the keys have to get dry. I used a floodlight which shines very hot.

Fourth Step: Reassembling the keyboard

It is not very difficult to reassemble the Macbook Pro Keyboard. Just push the clip on the anchor and let it snap in.

Trick for the Keys:

You will need a trick for the keys ‘function’, ‘control’, ‘alt’, ‘apple’, ‘Space’, and ‘apple’. Just take a wire and stick it through the closing mechanism like this:

than push it in its anchors and remove the wire.

Congratulations! You have safed 500,-€!!!