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From: johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu
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Subject: Re: removal of beer from keyboard
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Date: 11 Jun 91 19:42:00 GMT
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In article <13230@aggie.ucdavis.edu>, krweiss@ucdavis.edu writes...
>In article <1991Jun11.131710.20086@sci.ccny.cuny.edu>
>sukenick@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (SYG) writes:
>>Maybe spilling some coffee will help it :-)
>>        Dip the entire thing in distilled water
>>for a while, then hang it out for a while and then put it into a
> 
>A residue-free electronic solvent like Electrowash might work. We've had good
>luck using it to clean boards with V-8 juice and Pepsi spills.

My experience with "residue-free" cleaners is that they make things
worse when it comes to keyswitches.  I spilled coffee on a Mac keyboard
and ended up with one intermittently sticky key.  After spraying 
an electronics cleaner I had 5 sticky keys.  All the solvent did 
was move the dirt around; most of it ended up somewhere where it
could do even more harm.  It would have been much easier to replace
the single bad keyswitch at the outset.

Bill (johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu)