[pmmail-list] Keyboards (Was: A couple of 2634 wish list items....)

[Morris Thompson]

It does work! I once used the dishwasher to fix mine:

A couple of years back I dumped an expresso in my Northgate 
keyboard and several important keys quit working.

After manual cleaning it still didn't work, so I removed the keycaps,
opened it up to get the circuit board, and put the board in the 
dishwasher for a normal cycle -- with dishwasher detergent.
(I didn't let it do a heated dry).

I hung the cleaned board in the garage to dry for at least a week,
reassembled it, and it works fine. 

Still the best keyboard I've used, even better feel than the IBM
keyboard that came with my first IBM PC in '82. 
(And I still like having the function keys on the left!)

Morris

--
Morris Thompson  (morris@morrist.com)

Disclaimer: The above opinions are my own,
and could not be understood by my employer.


On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 07:35:39 -0400 (EDT), Jerry Prather wrote:

>On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 08:26:12 +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote:
>
>>What about the circuitry? Or are you pulling our legs?
>
>Hey, I didn't have it powered up in the bathtub!  <G> 
>_That_ would have done in the circuitry.  But if you let
>everything dry out real well, there should be no problems. 
>Also, that is why I turned it every day during the drying
>cycle - to make sure that any remaining entrapped water got
>loose and available to dry.  
>
>Of course YMMV.  I wasn't counting on it either, but if the
>washing didn't work, what did I have to lose - the keyboard
>was already non-functional.
>
>Cheers,
>Jerry
>
>-- 
>Jerry Prather                   prather@exis.net
>Virginia Beach, VA
>
>"Many religions are worth dying for; none are worth killing for."
>				- Me, circa 1998
>
>
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