What about removing the battery and clean the keyboard? It used to be trendy to clean keyboards in dishwasher, with amazing results (have to let them dry really well. With a laptop, I'd be worried that water doesn't drain properly, but might be worth a try.
On 2014-09-12 20:47, Allan Irving wrote: > Unrelated to normal discussion but hopefully, of interest to some and some of > you can help point me in the right direction. > > Long story short, old laptop. Coffee spill. Works fine, just the keyboard is > stuffed. > > Have an idea to utilise it. Guy it from the laptop casing and create a Lego > case from Lego parts around the motherboard. Not sure if I will utilise the > inbuilt screen, current plan is to use an external one. Install Debian on it > and put it to some use. > > Now, I'm not too familiar with doing something like this. I can build > computers but in usual components. > > First thing, heat + plastic. Bad idea? Any suggestions as to how to place or > manipulate the heat sink and CPU to reduce melting or danger? > > I was thinking fans if course, USB ones plus added built in one. > > Any other suggestions as to how I can go about making this happen?! > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > -- Yves. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
