[ltp] [OT] Cleaning Mousebuttons

[Mario Limonciello]

Wolf Wiegand wrote:

> Hello,
>
> in a moment of temporal insanity, I managed to spill a little bit of 
> tea on my thinkpad. Not enough for any of it to leak below the 
> keyboard, yet enough to kill a mouse button :-(.
>
> Well, at first after the spillage (and drying attempts) the computer 
> worked all right for a couple of minutes. After that my mouse started 
> acting totally weird. So I removed the keyboard and try to blow out 
> any liquid still in there. Then I put everything back together and let 
> it sit for >24 hrs.
>
> Now, everything works allright, except the upper left mouse (or rather 
> touchpad) button. It seemes to be pressed permanently, so I can't even 
> use the lower left mouse button.
>
> Now my question: Is it possible to remove the mouse buttons or the 
> keyboard buttons from the keyboard just by pulling them off (so I can 
> see what's wrong)? I didn't want to try it in order not to break even 
> more things around here.
>
> Thanks for any answer,
>
> Wolf

I don't have a response for you - but on the topic whoever answers this 
I have another question.  What can you use to clean off natural oils 
from your fingers?  I can tell which keys I press more often then others 
because I can feel these keys becoming more "oiled" so to say, and not 
smooth as they use to be.