[CUBE] I spoiled my keyboard

[Frank Gowarty]

I dropped a beer on mine : )
The same keys didn't work for a couple a weeks

They all work fine now

Happened about 2 years ago
Thought I was lucky

But I'd buy a new keyboard only


On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 10:13  AM, Joseph B. Gurman wrote:

>     Sergei Zak wrote:
>
>> Gents and ladies,
>> I regret following some old lister's advice to clean the Apple Pro 
>> keyboard
>> by bathing it in water. I was under a special mood so I put it under 
>> my
>> shower of lukewarm water and let it dry for  days in the sun.
>> Now I lack left Ctrl. Numlock is gone and so are the top row with 
>> numbers
>> and specials. Bad idea it was.
>> Now I am trying to find small hex head screwdriver to disassemble it 
>> and fix
>> whatever went wrong.
>> So heed the warning  - never do what I did.
>> All in all it all just proved that I picked the wrong girl that 
>> eve... Can't
>> smile, sorry. It's in the top row. hehe
>
>     Never use tap (or shower head) water, just distilled water, the 
> fewer minerals (which can be conductive as well as sticky), the 
> better. The lukewarm water in your shower probably included (if 
> Russian plumbing is anything like in the US) hot water that came down 
> copper pipes, and so includes copper sulfate in small quantities. If 
> your municipal water is treated as it is in the US, you have all sorts 
> of other chemicals that were added to kill microbes, &c. Supposedly 
> harmless to humans in small doses, but they're still electrolytes.
>
>     What a blow: never to smile or frown in this forum again. ;-)
>
> 						Joe Gurman
> -- 
> "I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they go by."
>                                                             - Douglas 
> Adams, 1952 - 2001
>
> Joseph B. Gurman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar Physics
> Branch, Greenbelt MD 20771 USA
>
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