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From: stevem@specialix.co.uk (Steven Murray)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: motherboards in the dishwasher?
Message-ID: <1991May7.123931.18758@specialix.co.uk>
Date: 7 May 91 12:39:31 GMT
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ieeug330@Eagle.oscs.montana.edu (Mark Wistey) writes:

>(From a thread in comp.sys.apple2)
>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.  Who's right?
>What's the best way to clean a pop-filled keyboard?  (BTW, it's not mine.)

If you get it quickly after the accident, get some a little water in there
before you start the real work - but I wouldn't 'run it under the tap'
so much I think.  The best way to clean it up would be to use Isopropyl
alcohol and heaps of paper towels and cotton buds.  The alcohol is a solvent
that will disolve just about anything messy on a circuit board (including
flux), but it is important to 'Sop it up' with something absorbent before it
evaporates, or else you will just be leaving a uniform film of whatever you
were trying to clean off.  BTW Deionized water is used to clean circuit
boards in some PCB production plants.

Regards
Steven Murray
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