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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: <11758@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 16 Sep 89 22:38:34 GMT
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In article <[1932.2]comp.ibmpc;1@point.UUCP>, wek@point.UUCP (Bill Kuykendall) writes:
>>> Cleaning a keyboard after coffee spills will cure it only in the short term.
> 
> 
>>  That is why we use ultrasonic cleaner to clean them (with suitable
>>solvent of course), and put new coating if needed.  
> 
> Sounds like a lot of work to retrieve components that A) wear over time,
> causing the action to deteriorate; and B) cost only $50 in the first place!
> 8=}

  Yes, we knew it was not worth it, but since we do have the material (other-
wise it will be in the corner of our warehouse for ever) and we have the
man-power, so why not?  Do you know how difficult to get approval of buying
new keyboards through the state perchasing? Of course, when we run out of
these materials, we will stop what we are doing now, I hope.