The keyboard appears to be working fine again. Strange! On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Stephen wrote: > manufacturers website for the manual. Dell and HP have insanely old > manuals still > > and the reason you use distilled water to rinse, it has fewer > minerals. they are what conducts electricity to cause a short. > > and the wine is under the key but in the mech underneath it. > > > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > > WHERE would I find this manual? > > > > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Matt Graham > > wrote: > >> > >> From: Alan Dayley > >> > Take apart the notebook enough to remove the keyboard. > >> > >> Find the Fine Manual for that machine first. Sometimes it's totally not > >> obvious how to remove the keyboard, and the Fine Manual generally tells > >> you > >> how to do that. > >> > >> > Wash the keyboard in warm water. > >> > >> DISTILLED water. Temp really doesn't matter that much AFAICT, but > there's > >> less crud in distilled water, and you want as little crud as possible in > >> the > >> parts. > >> > >> > Dry the keyboard in the AZ sun for a day, maybe two. Longer if > >> > not in the sun. > >> > >> 12 hours should be fine considering the low humidity here. 24 hours in > >> MI, > >> because it's so much more humid there. > >> > >> > Or, instead of all that, buy a replacement keyboard from eBay or a > >> > repair shop. > >> > >> Try washing it out first if you have more time than spare money. FWIW, > I > >> had > >> this happen with orange juice and a desktop keyboard 6 years ago, and > the > >> distilled water + 24 hours drying time worked perfectly. > >> > >> -- > >> Matt G / Dances With Crows > >> The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ > >> There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------- > >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > > > -- > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > -- > A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from > rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. > > Stephen > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: