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From: AI4CPHYW@MIAMIU.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Cleaning Your Keyboard
Message-ID: <91107.122806AI4CPHYW@MIAMIU.BITNET>
Date: 17 Apr 91 17:28:06 GMT
Organization: Miami University - Academic Computer Service
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I read not too long ago, in Byte I think, that it is possible to wash a keyboar
d with water. (i.e. submurge it to help clean out internal contamination)  I ha
ve an XT keyboard with a barely functional control key and an F3 key that is be
ginning to go and I am thinking about doing this.  (I am told that you submurge
 the keyboard in water (after unpluging it, of course) agitate the water a bit
and then dry it with a hairdryer on its coolest setting.  This is supposed to c
lean the contacts and remove accumulated dust and dirt)  My question is, has an
yone else done this, did it work, and would you suggest that I give it a swing.
 
Any questions, comments, or help would be greatly appreciated.  I read my mail,
 on the account listed above, pretty regularly so a reply, if warranted, will c
ome soon.   Thanks in advance.
 
 
 
                              -Alec Isaacson
                               Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
                               AI4CPHYW@MIAMIU