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Spilled water over keyboard - now what?
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HamSandwich
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Hey,
my dad spilled water over his Apple keyboard (an old one, with cable). Now what? He doesn't dare connecting it again.
He says, somehow, when I was a kid and had spilled hot chocolate over the keyboard, we would have just opened it, cleaned it, dried it on the oven and then we would have reconnected it - now what?
What's true? Any danger? Just let it try and reconnect? Should we open it? (Can you open it, at all?)
Greetings,
Parker
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Join Date: Jun 2000
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Let the water fully dry. Put a desk fan on it to speed things up if you have one. After a day or two, reconnect and work as usual.
If it doesn't work, get a new Mac keyboard. Same if keys have gotten sticky or it's just too grungy.
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place it upside down on a towel to dry. If it is old enough to have big chunky keys, you can pry those off with a paperclip to clean underneath... but a) this won't remove water that got inside; b) make sure you know which ones go where; c) be careful with spacebar.
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Clinically Insane
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Originally Posted by reader50
Let the water fully dry. Put a desk fan on it to speed things up if you have one. After a day or two, reconnect and work as usual.
If it doesn't work, get a new Mac keyboard. Same if keys have gotten sticky or it's just too grungy.
I was almost able to save a Bluetooth keyboard which got a Coke spilled on it by running it through the dishwasher (top rack, non-heat setting, let it dry for a week).
It was a total success except for killing the space bar.
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Originally Posted by subego
I was almost able to save a Bluetooth keyboard which got a Coke spilled on it by running it through the dishwasher (top rack, non-heat setting, let it dry for a week).
It was a total success except for killing the space bar.
On an anecdotal note: I run my old Apple Keyboards (2003) through the dishwasher, they still work. Apple slim keyboards can't cope with it, though.
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Yeah. This was a AA battery slim model, but I figured why not because I was going to pitch it anyway. Keys got too sticky.
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If a slim keyboard has a formed membrane under the keys, you would need to take it apart to definitely dry it. Even a week isn't enough since a membrane can trap water against the board under it.
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