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From: yuan@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Yuan 'Hacker' Chang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: help! my keyboard is drunk
Message-ID: <9153@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
Date: 30 Aug 90 19:24:38 GMT
References: <1880.mac.hardware@pro-angmar> <44412@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: yuan@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Yuan 'Hacker' Chang)
Organization: Univ. of Barbarians.  Honolulu, Hawaii
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In article <44412@apple.Apple.COM> anderson@Apple.COM (Clark Anderson) writes:
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-Pure (or close to pure) water won't harm
-electronics, provided they're dried after being immersed. But I'd
-probably only use the water if I was trying to remove a water-soluble
-residue, like coffee, beer or wine. Otherwise, I'd just take it apart
-and use compressed air and a couple of fine brushes. You can buy
-cans of compressed air at hobby stores or camera-supply stores.

	I normally just use a vacuum cleaner that has a blow mode as well.
First vacuum the keyboard as much as possible (you don't want the junk to
be dispersed in the air), and then turn the vacuum around and blow on the
keyboard.  Air is much more convenient in an office environment where the
users don't want to part with their computers for too long.
-- 
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