Monday, January 28, 2008

Spill something in your new apple keyboard?

Let' say you bit the bullet went out and bought one of those new aluminum apple keyboards.

and your not paying attention, and you spill something in it..
milk pop beer hot coco any of the sort...

this is what you do.

You may cringe but this is what i did.. and every key works ...
its back just like new.

Completely submerse the keyboard in the hottest hot water from the faucet.

if there were any keys that were sticky or sticking, now is the time to work those keys up and down...
keep pressing the keys till they no longer stick/ while the hot water is pouring on the keyboard all at the
same time.

then as soon as you have un stuck the keys...

you take it over to the air compressor and you blow the hell outta the keyboard... start at one end and make a back and
forth motion across all the keys until you go from one end of the KBD to the other.

if you don't have a air compressor get a can of air... get a wash cloth and put it in hot water as well and wrap it around the can
it helps the not ice up so fast... because you are going to use almost the whole can.

while you are doing this ... tilt one end toward the floor and start at the other end. The water you are trying to get outta the keyboard has to go some where...

then get some paper towel and clean up the best you can...

Grab a hair dryer and turn it on high... and run it over the keyboard back on forth, start at one end and work your way to the other end ... be meticulous.

at this point once you are done... you are pretty much ready to plug back in and use... but if you are still not satisfied that its dry then you can lay it against the wall for a day.

that fixed mine and i am sure it would fix yours.





Also i noticed all those new function keys only work when you are running 10.4.11
10.4.10 did not allow the function key at the top to work correctly.