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From: zateslo@geomag.fsu.edu (Ted Zateslo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith.z100
Subject: Re: cleaning the keyboard
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Date: 19 Jul 90 16:56:19 GMT
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We have successfully used TF solvent (available at electronics jobbers,
etc) to clean Z-100 and other keyboards.  You can often fix an 
individual stubborn key by squirting the stuff between keycaps and
depressing the key repeatedly.

WARNING: do NOT use a product called "Blue Shower" on keyboards.  Even
though the label claims it won't hurt electronic things, it dissolved
the protective coating from a Z-158 keyboard we were cleaning; the
gunk lodged in the keyswitches and we were out one keyboard.  The TF
sovent, though, never seems to hurt anything.

-Ted Zateslo, FSU Geology Dept.
Internet: zateslo@scri1.scri.fsu.edu