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From: JLI@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Spilled on your keyboard? Wash it!
Message-ID: <11445@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 14 Sep 89 00:16:32 GMT
References: <493@mindlink.UUCP>
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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In article <493@mindlink.UUCP>, a550@mindlink.UUCP (Craig Cooksey) writes:
> Cleaning a keyboard after coffee spills will cure it only in the short term.
> Coffee has a deteriating affect on the solder traces of the keyboard. All sorts
> of problems will manifest themselves over a period of time. I have replaced
> many in my time as a field engineer.

  That is why we use ultrasonic cleaner to clean them (with suitable
solvent of course), and put new coating if needed.