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Re: How to clean a Keyboard?...SHIT!...COFFEE!

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From: Mitch
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 00:00
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In article <4hjugk$654@nw003.infi.net>, rbgch@annap.infi.net (Rabbit Hutch) says:
>
>Yup, I did it....Spilled a full cup of java onto my keyboard!
>Had to borrow the wifes kitchen table, where I spent the next 3 hours
>dis-assembling, and then putting all 300 keys, springs, etc in
>bowls...cleaned the membrane, and insulators with warm soapy water and
>blot-dried, then finished with a hair dryer on warm. All the
>individual keys and their springs had to be washed, and dried
>overnight.  Apain, but it works fine now...Robert.
>

You are lucky no coffee got between the acitate and the 
contacts.

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From: mitch@aardvark.apana.org.au (Mitch)
Subject: Re: How to clean a Keyboard?...SHIT!...COFFEE!
Date: 1996/03/07
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