WINE ON KEYBOARD

Stephen cryptworks at gmail.com
Sat Jul 24 14:41:21 MST 2010


manufacturers website for the manual. Dell and HP have insanely old
manuals still

and the reason you use distilled water to rinse, it has fewer
minerals. they are what conducts electricity to cause a short.

and the wine is under the key but in the mech underneath it.


On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> WHERE  would I find this manual?
>
> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows at usa.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> From: Alan Dayley <alandd at consultpros.com>
>> > Take apart the notebook enough to remove the keyboard.
>>
>> Find the Fine Manual for that machine first.  Sometimes it's totally not
>> obvious how to remove the keyboard, and the Fine Manual generally tells
>> you
>> how to do that.
>>
>> > Wash the keyboard in warm water.
>>
>> DISTILLED water.  Temp really doesn't matter that much AFAICT, but there's
>> less crud in distilled water, and you want as little crud as possible in
>> the
>> parts.
>>
>> > Dry the keyboard in the AZ sun for a day, maybe two.  Longer if
>> > not in the sun.
>>
>> 12 hours should be fine considering the low humidity here.  24 hours in
>> MI,
>> because it's so much more humid there.
>>
>> > Or, instead of all that, buy a replacement keyboard from eBay or a
>> > repair shop.
>>
>> Try washing it out first if you have more time than spare money.  FWIW, I
>> had
>> this happen with orange juice and a desktop keyboard 6 years ago, and the
>> distilled water + 24 hours drying time worked perfectly.
>>
>> --
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