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Rebecca and Rowland <real-address-in-sig@flurbletigibbet.rhubarb.foobar>
wrote:

> > Don't get angry with me if it breaks your keyboard even more, but I heard
> > that immersing them completely in water for 1-2mins solves just about any
> > problems.
> 
> That's likely to wipe out any hope you ever had of getting the keyboard
> working again.  My initial verbal comment is best written `Ahhhhhh!!!!!!
> Stopitstopitstopitstopitstopitstopitstopitstopit!'  I could carry on
> with the point that water won't clean the contacts at all, and will
> cause corrosion, push dirt from its out-of-the-way places into places it
> might cause problems, etc., etc.
> 
> It's just vaguely possible that full immersion in a suitable organic
> solvent might do the trick, but it's just as possible that you'll use a
> solvent that dissolves something vital as well as the dirt.


you may be horrified, but all my kbds recieve this treatment every year
or so. I've never had a problem, indeed this strategy fixed a Dell kbd 
with the very kind of problem being discussed. The ick that seems to 
stop keys working seems to dissolve pretty well in water, as it is all
too often coffee or cola.

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'ric