[P1] stinky keyboard?

[PaulKurtz III]

Well, if iBook keyboards are like the rest, you might be able to pull it
out, unhook it's ribbon cable, and soak it in some hot soapy water.  I hear
you can do this with keyboards as long as you let them THOROUGHLY DRY for a
few days.  This might be more easily said than done on an iBook though.

Paul

On 1/18/03 4:11 PM, "Rosie Redfield" <redfield at mail.unixg.ubc.ca> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've recently noticed that the keyboard of my iBook has begun to give
> off an unpleasant smell.  The computer is a 500MHz white iBook, about
> 14 months old.  The smell began a month or so ago and has been
> getting worse - it's a rank sweaty smell, a bit worse when the iBoook
> is warm, and definitely coming from the keyboard itself, not the
> internal hardware.  I don't think it's dirt (the keyboard is
> spotless) but some sort of breakdown product produced by aging
> plastic.
> 
> Has anyone else noticed this?  There's a recent thread on Mac's iBook
> support discussions about it, but no consensus on the cause and no
> solution.
> 
> Rosie
> 
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