[ltp] Coffee in X61

[Donald B Altman]

When it's as dry as possible, you might try putting it into a ziploc bag 
full of dry, uncooked rice.  That also works, over time, as a dessicant. 
  And it's pretty benign.

Good Luck.

On 02/07/2011 09:56 AM, Ted Frater wrote:
> Hendrik-Jan Heins wrote:
>> Ok, so it sounds like I should try to clean it again with alcohol.
>> However, I am a bit wary of the fact that I think the issue is liquid
>> between the sheets that make up the keyboard.
>> I guess also with alcohol I run the risk that liquid stays lodged here.
>>
>> Does anyone know of a trick to get it out from between the plastic
>> sheets wit hthe contacts on them?
>>
>> Thank you.
>> Hendrik-Jan
>>
>>
>> 2011/2/7 Leon Brokken <leon.brokken@med.lu.se>:
>>> On 02/07/2011 01:10 PM, Martin Schuster (IFKL IT OS DS CD) wrote:
>>>> On 02/07/2011 12:44 PM, Pedro Ribeiro wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>> As mentioned, I rinsed it under the tap, and I dried it with a blow
>>>>> dryer (de-ioniser switched on, don't worry).
>>>>> It has been drying like that for about 3 to 4 hours.
>>>>> But it is still acting up in such a way that I think there is water
>>>>> between the plastic sheets.
>>>>>
>>>> What about rinsing it with sth that evaporates easily? Alcohol e.g.;
>>>> Acetone is most likely a bad idea :)
>>> Isopropanol would be best.
>>>
>>> Leon.
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> Liquids creep between almost anything non adsorbent by capilliary
> action. so you have to reverse this process.
> The sure way is to put in a vacumn chamber at a temperature say 50 Dec
> C, that will cause the liquid to boil out of the capilliary gaps as a
> vapour. The vacumn has to have a stronger pull on the liquid than the
> capilliary action holding it in. It might be propitious to get a price
> for a replacement keyboard.
> Something more risky would be to put it in an electric oven set to 70deg
> C for 4 hours.
> hotter than that might distort the plastic keys and the contact membrane
> let alone the silicone rubber springs under the keys.
> Ted.
>
> .
>

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Donald B. Altman
Singular Technologies
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