Logitech G15 oily keys

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Anyone else notice that something is on the keys, not all the keys, but quite a few? Looks like oil, but I'm not sure. It's starts from the bottom of the key and extends upward. Some are half way up and some aren't. Is this standard for keyboard makers?
 
Uhh, is it a new keyboard? Or did you/your little brother/sister just eat some chips whilst typing and then forget about it?

On a related note, I've never had that problem on any of the hundreds of keyboards I've used/seen.
 
You know I was looking at mine and I see the exact same thing. I will try and take a pic. Its not on every key, and not at every location, but some all over the keyboard. Some on keys I do not press. My camera doesn't have a macro mode, but I will try and get a pic and put it up.
 
No, no chips. If it shouldn't be there I guess I'll take it back.
 
I dont think there should ever be anything coming out of your keyboard. Send it back, or take some alcohol wipes and rub it down
 
Here's a pic if I can figure out how to upload it.
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Well I declare, exactly like mine. Litterally identical.

I guess that is how they come. I didn't notice it at first, but did notice earlier today (prior to your post)./\
 
Holy crap that's weird. No, I've never ever heard of that happening before. It looks like it is coming from _inside_ the keyboard!

P.S. nice macro on that camera

*edit: P.P.S. you had it working before, but now it (the link) is AFU :p
 
Did you guys see the pic I posted? It was so frigin small.

Nevermind, apparently Opera takes a while to load the pic for some reason.

Ya know, I've had a few of these keyboards with oil on them, so I've taken them back to try another and I got one today that had NO oil, but the MUTE button's paint had been scratch off a bit so I had this other blue mark on the button, weird. I think I'll just go get a Logitech Elite and leave it at that. I'm just tired of this.
 
As I said, you had it working before. You can either post it like this (replace parentheses with brackets):

Code: 
 (IMG)http://www.myserver.com/image.jpg(/IMG)

or with straight html, iirc:

Code: 
<a href="http://www.myserver.com/image.jpg"><img src="http://www.myserver.com/image_thumbnail.jpg"></a>

However, I'm too lazy to go find an image/thumbnail to test this on, so ymmv.
 
Very likely logitech oiled the mechanism/shaft underneath the keys (smoother press, quieter), and as plastic is very porous, it's slowly getting absorbed up, into and through the keys until it's actually visible from the outside. Interesting.

They probably should have used a thicker grease-type lubricant, rather than such a thin wd40-like oil.

I wouldn't worry about it too much, unless you actually feel like you're starting to get crap on your fingers, etc. Could probably take the keys out and soak them or something if it's a really big issue to you.
 
hughJ said:
Very likely logitech oiled the mechanism/shaft underneath the keys (smoother press, quieter), and as plastic is very porous, it's slowly getting absorbed up, into and through the keys until it's actually visible from the outside. Interesting.

They probably should have used a thicker grease-type lubricant, rather than such a thin wd40-like oil.

I wouldn't worry about it too much, unless you actually feel like you're starting to get crap on your fingers, etc. Could probably take the keys out and soak them or something if it's a really big issue to you.
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I'm pretty picky about my keyboard and mouse since I interact with them, so I guess I just don't think it should be like that in the first place. When I buy a keyboard I don't really expect anything liquid to be coming from it. It's a great keyboard. but I really don't want to have to pop off all the oily keys to clean them. I'm sure I'll f&^* one of them up and then I'll really be pissed at myself. Anyway, very happy with my Logitech G5, not so with the G15. I wish Logitech made a high end keyboard w/o a mouse having to come with it. I really like the 5000 keyboard, but I don't need the 1000 mouse. Oh well back to the drawing board.
 
That does not look like oil, but poor manufacturing instead. It looks like they did a half assed job of putting the textue on the key. Try a light bit of rubbing alcohol or windex on a q-tip to see if it comes off. Could also be some residue from the stencil or whatever used to put the letter or number on the key.
 
Took it back and got a Logitech Keyboard Elite, the new version and I have to say it's quite nice. Keys are nice and soft to type on and there is no residue on the keys. I think I'm now satisfied. I still believe that the stuff on the G15 is oil.
 
It's a fluid put onto the rubber of the key switches (the outer parts) to keep the rubber soft, after multiple key presses. The fact that this is needed leads me to think that particular keyboard may have had a problem with...cracking rubber in pre-launch tests?
 
Argh, damn you, now I'm going to be looking at me keys all the time. I see it on my G15 too.
 
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