Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:06:48
From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AW: 110 Keyboard prob
>From: Kapusta Gerhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: AW: 110 Keyboard prob
>Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 00:32:37 -0800
>
>Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:25:48 +0100
>From: Kapusta Gerhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: AW: 110 Keyboard prob
>
>Hi Ade!
>
>I had a similar accident with an other Tohshiba laptop: My wife droped a
>glass of "Sturm" into the keyboard, it went through the whole computer and
>ran out at the gaps at the bottom of the computer.
>
>I dismanteled the machine immediately and used a lot of water to rinse out
>the stick stuff. I did not rinse the motherboard itself, but I dismanteled
>the keyboard completely (every key of this computer consists of four parts,
>but the Lib-keyboard is build different!) and put all parts including the
>keyboard-plane under rinnig water for a while. Inside the case of the
>computer I used wery wet towels to carefully clean all accessible surfaces.
>
>I had full success, at the first switch on after the accident one key had a
>shortcut, but after completely drying all worked as before!
>
>regards
>Gerhard
>
>PS: "Sturm" is juice of grapes witch had already started to ferment and
>turn
>into wine. You can get it only in short period after harvest. It tastes
>fine, but it is very dangerous: it does not seem to contain alcohol, but
>this depends on the fermenting state.........
>
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Of course, you could use alcohol to clear it. But I agree with previous
posters - get it under running water fast. Just one thing - photocopy the
keyboard first so you know where the keys go back!
btw - one of the most subversive things to drop in a computer is bottled
mineral water...it has a low but significant salt content. It will usually
work fine after the dunking, but each time the air is damp you get a little
more corrosion :(
I once had to fix a sound desk which had acquired half a bottle of water
four months previously. It had seemed to work, so they said nothing...when I
got there it had killed major chunks of the motherboard and channel card,
and indirectly killed about thirty grands worth of connected equipment!
The worst thing I found for PCB attack is Bloody Mary...the combination of
tomato juice and Worcestershire sauce (that's Lea and Perrins for the
afficionado!) killed my desktop machine *instantly* and ate the legs off the
chips inside five minutes. Fortunately it only ate a sound card, with the
card removed the machine was happy again.
For info - here at work, we have so many problems with people taking drinks
into technical areas that it's been banned for years...so people still spill
stuff and then don't tell the technical guys. So now not reporting is a much
worse crime than taking the stuff in in the fist place, and can get you
sacked...
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