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Step 2Preparation
1) Remove any plastic wrappers from your bottle and place it into your container filled with warm water for easy sticker removal afterwards. Just leave it there for now, we'll return to it soon.
2) Now we're gonna prepare the keys from your keyboard. There are two easy ways to do that and they depend on the type of screwdriver you have (- or +):
a) Stick the end of your flat screwdriver under the key from the side and apply pressure, just pop the button out. You might want to place your finger on the key in case it jumps up high and you don't want to search for it all over the room.
b) Using your cross screwdriver unscrew the keyboard from behind, remove the unnecessary parts and apply pressure to pop out the keys from behind, don't be shy and give them a good old fashioned push. By the way, you may want to do this in the bathtub with the drain plugged, while using this method you also remove a part of crumbs, fingernails, cat hair, dust from your keyboard and it's way easier to clean that in a bathtub.
By now you should have a bunch of dirty buttons (look at the picture below). Remove any metal parts from them - you don't want rust in your bottle. As for cleaning them - it's a two part process (you can do it in one part of course, but i think this way is easier):
a) Put all the buttons in a small container, preferably a jar which can be closed with a lid. Fill the jar with hot water, screw on the lid and shake that bad boy with all your might. This part gets rid of the large debris and also makes the dirt on your buttons softer, easier to clean.
b) Clean each key INDIVIDUALLY. This is very important, you don't want them dirty in your bottle. I suggest you use a rough towel or some cloth and scrub of all the disgusting stuff from them.
3) By this time your bottles' stickers should have gone soft and easy to remove. Scrub them off without damaging the bottle. Simply use your fingers and nails.
At the end of this step you should have a clean bottle and clean keys.
TIP:While individually cleaning the keys you may want to pick out some letters for your other projects, no one will ever notice them missing if you only take a few and you can make some small nice presents from them (f.e. look at the last picture in this step).
2) Now we're gonna prepare the keys from your keyboard. There are two easy ways to do that and they depend on the type of screwdriver you have (- or +):
a) Stick the end of your flat screwdriver under the key from the side and apply pressure, just pop the button out. You might want to place your finger on the key in case it jumps up high and you don't want to search for it all over the room.
b) Using your cross screwdriver unscrew the keyboard from behind, remove the unnecessary parts and apply pressure to pop out the keys from behind, don't be shy and give them a good old fashioned push. By the way, you may want to do this in the bathtub with the drain plugged, while using this method you also remove a part of crumbs, fingernails, cat hair, dust from your keyboard and it's way easier to clean that in a bathtub.
By now you should have a bunch of dirty buttons (look at the picture below). Remove any metal parts from them - you don't want rust in your bottle. As for cleaning them - it's a two part process (you can do it in one part of course, but i think this way is easier):
a) Put all the buttons in a small container, preferably a jar which can be closed with a lid. Fill the jar with hot water, screw on the lid and shake that bad boy with all your might. This part gets rid of the large debris and also makes the dirt on your buttons softer, easier to clean.
b) Clean each key INDIVIDUALLY. This is very important, you don't want them dirty in your bottle. I suggest you use a rough towel or some cloth and scrub of all the disgusting stuff from them.
3) By this time your bottles' stickers should have gone soft and easy to remove. Scrub them off without damaging the bottle. Simply use your fingers and nails.
At the end of this step you should have a clean bottle and clean keys.
TIP:While individually cleaning the keys you may want to pick out some letters for your other projects, no one will ever notice them missing if you only take a few and you can make some small nice presents from them (f.e. look at the last picture in this step).
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