Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: motherboards in the dishwasher?
Message-ID: <1991May7.153627.4590@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Tue, 7 May 1991 15:36:27 GMT
References: <0094836B.DA657A80@Eagle.oscs.montana.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <0094836B.DA657A80@Eagle.oscs.montana.edu> ieeug330@Eagle.oscs.montana.edu (Mark Wistey) writes:
>Someone claimed that the best way to clean a contaminated (e.g. soda pop)
>computer keyboard was to disconnect it and run it under tap water.  I thought
>water was enough of a solvent to cause damage to circuit boards...

Clean, fresh water is not very corrosive.  It may be worth trying as a
last resort.  I'd recommend taking the keyboard apart, though, so you can
rinse the innards directly and so they will dry relatively quickly.  Water
sitting on the board for a while is bad news.
-- 
And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"beans are more important".             |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry