Repairing sticking keys

The right side of my Backspace key has begun to stick pretty badly. You might say, "just use the left side" but I always seem to hit the right edge. Is there an easy way to get a key to stop sticking without taking the whole laptop apart to get under the keyboard? I don't see any way to pop the key off from the top or get anything underneath to clean it. Does anyone have any recommendations?

 

On a laptop, there is generally no way to clean keys without disassembling the laptop to get to the keyboard. As far as the M11x keyboard is concerned, I do not believe that you can remove any of the keys without damaging the keyboard assembly. You'll probably have to remove the keyboard to get under any of the keys, or you might just want to replace the keyboard altogether if your keyboard now is starting to show noticeable signs of wear.

 

option A is to remove keyboard ( back panel off, battery out, undo screws under battery, power button bezel off, 2 screws holding keyboard out) and wash it with distiled water or high purity alcohol, leave for few days to dry.

option B is to remove backspace key, now my old keyboard, i tried this, it seems to have a 99% possibility of breaking... so I'd suggest removing keys around backspace, cleaning under it with a wet brush or something similar and leaving to dry for a few hours or using a hairblower to dry for 10ish minutes. best way to pop them out seems to be to pull up from left/right instead of top/bottom of the key. Then they just pop back in fairly easily.

now just to make sure i am clear, safer way would be to rinse it with alcohol/distilled water and leave it to dry, as that way you run no risk of damaging the assembly of the keys, as the little plastic skeletons are quite delicate. then again i got a broken keyboard with all keys in working condition, so i could just mail you a few if you needed them, obviously you'd cover postage again I'd go with A

EDIT: on a 3rd though, could just use a wet brush and try to wash it off, as the top part of keyboard is actually water-proof, at least for most part, so it should be fine. just not too wet, as to not introduce enough water to run down the side or something. I'd go with plan C first.

 

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