[G4] milk spill on keyboard

[Doug McNutt]

At 00:40 -0700 6/1/05, Crandon David wrote:
>Alcohol can damage some components and will disolve many glues holding things together. I don't recommend it.

Ethanol and isopropanol are specifically recommended for cleaning of printed circuit boards. Plastic electronic parts are safe by specification with those solvents.

Rubbing alcohol from the drugstore is usually over 50% water.

Folks on the LowEndMac list talk about "repairing" keyboards and whole motherboards in a dishwasher. It's pretty successful even using soap and hot water. The internals of the key switches on a keyboard can be a problem of access depending on the design.

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It's bad to leave water with minerals in it to evaporate. Distilled water for a final rinse or isopropyl alcohol, which dissolves remaining water, from your local commercial cleaning supplier is appropriate. Ask for "dry" or "anhydrous" alcohol. Should be about $3 US for a gallon. No license, as for ethanol, required.

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