keyboard flooded...

[okidoki]

I spilled a pint of water down my keyboard yesterday.
Has anyone got any experience with opening the "bigger version" of the MAC keyboards? my left apple key stopped working and my guess is that there is some dirt on the connector...

Please tell me its possible...

T

[S_Leeper]

Try blowing with air first.

[Swampy]

No experience with Mac's, but with the PC, Heck, you can take it all apart and put it all in the dishwasher, put it back together and you'll have a new keyboard. :)

[okidoki]

aaah....

its driving me crazy I feel handycaped without it....
tried blowing and tried to open it, no good...

dont know what to do

t

[sandman]

Timo if after throwing a gallon of water over it does'nt clean it , and you don't fancy swampy's dishwasher idea (and who would) You could try the old fashioned way and just hold it upside down and give it a vigorous shaking , but i can't understand why you cant take it apart , i've had dozens and all of them have recessed screws underneath .

PS if you give swampys idea a go , unplug it from the mains first. otherwise you'll get a bit of static in your boxers.

Brian

[Swampy]

yeah, unplug it first.

This general disclaimer goes with any of my posts.

Do not try to attempt this on your own. What I do, I do out of pure lack of common sense, stupidity or the rare occasion that I really do know what I'm doing. In short, do not hold me responsible for YOUR actions based on feedback provided by me. It works for me and I'm just sharing my fortunes or sometimes, mis-fortunes.

[sandman]

Timo
I've got a fitter over here named Len , we call him hammerhead because anything he can't get apart with a screwdriver he use's a hammer, he's got things apart that were never meant to be . Whenever we get a sticky problem we call ''hammerhead'' he takes one look , throws away the screwdriver and with a big wide grin comes back with a 7 lb hammer '' no problems'' is his catchphrase . never fails , granted you can't aways get them back together afterwards , but he ALWAYS gets them apart .
I once had to trim a few branches off trees in my garden , so out came the chainsaw and as i going to start Len appeared ''i'll do it if you like'' he said with a demented kind of smile . Having visions of the kind of carnage that Canadian lumber camps do to the local area i declined.
If you'll still having trouble with that keyboard i'll send him over.

Brian

[okidoki]

Thanks guys, two very diffrent approaches.

I will swing by Home Depot today and get a jackhammer, this baby is goibg to open, or die... Its like the second most used button on my left hand while working... frustrated.

T

[sandman]

Ah !! a jackhammer ,thats his favorite. he can create havoc with a jackhammer:D

[okidoki]

Yeap, that's it...

[sandman]

HA HA !!
Good shout Timo , i'll show him if he has'nt tunnelled down to oz by now .

Seriously i hope you fix it , i had the ''A'' button play up the other week ,i had to take it to pieces but the trouble i had writing letters without an A . turned out it was a piece of cornflake (don't ask).

Brian

[crabby]

Nice work Timo.
They sure do have wimpy bulldozers over there. My snow shovel's bigger!

[sandman]

Here we go again from keyboard to bulldozer , where's this thread going next.
We call them Kabota's mini diggers you can get them in your back garden . You must have something like them over there. But we do have big ones to .

[Wichita Wayne]

If the "second most" used key is bad then in the near future you are sure to loose the "most" used key. Also check the warrenty and see if you are entitled to a free replacement keyboard. You never know.

[smunky]

When its not a bulldozer, I call it a digger.
Thats what i call those little things, diggers.
I wish i had a digger.
One time I saw a digger that someone had painted purple with nice graphics, now thats the digger for me.

Timo:
I spilled sprite all over my laptop this year, pried it open carefully took about 45 mins
wiped it down, dried it off, good as new.

[crabby]

Timo-OK, I just flipped my keyboard over (same as yours) and it has 3 little allen screws at the top and there might be 2 more on the key side one under the caps lock key and one under the #6. Hopefully it's just the three at the top though.
In our studio we call this the Pepsi syndrome.
By the way, how did you make out with your second monitor?

[Wichita Wayne]

This is located about 10 miles West of where I went to college. It is called Big Brutus, and it was used to remove the earth that was over a coal seam so the strip mining machines (drag lines) could get to the coal. Yes those are real people standing next to the digger. The picture is a scanned Hasselblad negative shot with the best lens ever manufactured, the CZ 50mm F-2.8.

[Linda G]

Catching up on my reading since returning.

HAHAHAHA! Talk about a thread killer! Who can top THAT??

Start with a sick keyboard, which the last post here should be congratulating the guy when he gets it fixed or replaced, to the largest 'digger/jackhammer/land stripper ever!

Linda

[okidoki]

yes and the poor guy got the tools out and opened the key board, now it sits without the plastic covering and without the apple key working... I am gathering mental strength to go down and purchase a new, not a typical "lets do it" purchase considering that I acidentaly ruined it... well i am happy it wasn't the camera...

Thanks for your help guys!

T

[Wichita Wayne]

Send me the old one and I will see if I can get Brutus to run over it for you. That will teach it not to be waterproof, and maybe it will turn into a good flat panel keyboard. You know like the ones that they put on the very old Sinclair computers (with 4K of memory!!!).

[okidoki]

he he he

[Wilm]

Okidoki,

before you will handover your keyboard to Brutus, try something different:

Completley put your keyboard into water, then user compressed air to dry it. After this use round about 1 Liter 1/3 gallon of high-grade alcohol to remove dust at the contacts. Dry it with compressed air again. ( Be carefull, don´t smoke during last step !)

This procedure has reanimated my keyboard a couple of years ago when a PC-Kb costs too much.

Might be I can help you ?

Otherwise, Santa will in 4 1/2 weeks ;)

Wilm

[Steve Wynn]

A few observations and comments.

I had a friend who actually spilled his coke onto his keyboard. Thinking quickly, knowing that the sugary mess would really gum up everything, he unplugged it, (GOOD SO FAR), grabbed a can of what he thought was compressed air, headed to the sink, rinsed it off, and preceded to spray it off with not air, but a can of 3M #77 or something like that spray adhesive. Realized what he did, threw it away and proceded down to the nearest computer shop and purchased a new keyboard! A couple of weeks ago, he told me he took the glued up keyboard, drizzled brightly colored paints over it and put it into a shadowbox on his wall.

Steve

[okidoki]

That is a great story.
I finally drove over mine with the jeep and hurried to the nearest Apple store...
The office is a food free zonee now, wonder how long that will last...

T

[Linda G]

Desktop computers weren't around when I had babies around (my 'baby' is a sr at KU) but I envision the inevitable baby bottles, pacifiers and assorted sticky things around your desk as you combine parenthood with computering. (parenting is encompassed into every aspect of your life, no separating living spaces!)

So food free will take on a new meaning for you.

Linda