On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 06:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
My G3 Apple Design Extended Keyboard soaked up a quart of hot water with a pkg. of Ramen noodles mixed in.
Don't suppose the starch from the noodles was too good for the contacts.
Is the keyboard salvedgeable - when it dries out ?
Does it need to be taken apart and cleaned ?
Any trick to getting keys off and then back on ?
Thanks,
A. ;-)
Flush with copious amounts of water. Hold the keyboard face up under a good stream of room temperature water and then turn the keyboard over (keys down) to drain. Repeat holding it face up and turning it over to briefly drain.
After the rinsing, that should remove most of the soup and solids, shake it out and set it face down for about 4-5 days. If the keyboard is semi-transparent, perhaps you can watch the water eventually disappear.
I've done this with my G3 OEM keyboard and I let the keyboard dry in the summer sun. After 4 days, it was put back in use and previous sticky key troubles were gone.
Another post described washing several keyboards at once in a dishwasher without soap. Some practitioners use 100 % grain alcohol (ethanol) as a final rinse to shorten the dry time.
Posts on this tap water keyboard rejuvenation warn about taking the keyboard apart as you will have to catch a gazillion little springs flying in ways that will reduce even the strongest to tears or prayer.
Maybe that's over doing it, but that's the picture that came to mind after reading the warning post on keyboard disassembly adventures. HTH.
Eric
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