Looking for my dream keyboard

[woodsmoke]

Ummmm hi.....

It was an "old trick" back decades ago to "wash the keyboards".

School students can really mess over keyboards and the IT woman washed them regularly under warm running water, shook them off and let them air dry.

Although she did it innumerable times, I, persoally have also done it several times when I was donating computers.

These were all corded of course.

Was yours wireless?

You might redo the cleaning, maybe go so far as to seperate the top and bottom halves, but again, run copious amounts of warm water over it, shake it off and let it air dry. at least a day.

woodsmoke

[SteveRiley]

On the Nexus 4 board at XDA Forum, some dude lamented about how his phone slid off the back of a toilet tank plunged into the bowl. A number of people suggested dunking the parts in isopropyl alcohol after disassembling the phone. Apparently, this both cleans any residue (ick) and helps speed evaporation of water.

[Teunis]

Glycol is the alcohol, sorry, chemical of choice for taking water vapour out of a gas.
I can imagine it would work similarly on hardware.
At the same time it could act as a solvent that dissolves certain important plastic parts...

Many years ago I was very happy with a fish oil or Water Dispersant formula 40 to dry out wet circuit boards, it's sold under the name WD40

[charles052]

On the Nexus 4 board at XDA Forum, some dude lamented about how his phone slid off the back of a toilet tank plunged into the bowl. A number of people suggested dunking the parts in isopropyl alcohol after disassembling the phone. Apparently, this both cleans any residue (ick) and helps speed evaporation of water.

I'd wait on that because it also makes some clear plastics cloudy. I used alcohol on one of my wife's phones after it went through the washer. Sure, it dried it up, but I ended up putting nail polish on the inside of the screen to clear it up again. I'm not sure if it damages anything else though. BTW, the phone still worked, but it was never quite the same afterwards so we ended up getting her a new one. Simple enough since the same exact phone was free with a purchase of a Straight Talk plan.

One thing for sure, don't do what my dad did to dry out a piece of delicate electronic equipment. He got his phone wet and he put it in the microwave to speed up the drying process. ZZZZitz!!!!!

[SteveRiley]

I'd wait on that because it also makes some clear plastics cloudy.

IIRC, the recommendation was only to dunk the phone's guts, not the case.

One thing for sure, don't do what my dad did to dry out a piece of delicate electronic equipment. He got his phone wet and he put it in the microwave to speed up the drying process. ZZZZitz!!!!!

Microwave ovens don't evaporate water -- they vibrate water molecules, generating heat and causing the water to boil. They also don't cook from the inside out. It's amazing how many people still think they do!