That's unfortunate. Chances of recovery are low but the procedure is the same as if the power was off.
1. I'll assume you don't have a desiccant chamber so you will use the oven. Online you will find instructions to use rice as a desiccant. This can work if you don't have a desiccant chamber or an oven but it very slow and prone to failure. I have had to do this more times that I can count and I have always used the oven with 100% success. The last time was when I dropped my cell phone in the toilet. A friend also dropped their phone in the toilet. I tried to talk them into using the oven but they insisted on using rice. Their phone didn't recover, mine did. I have also used this method on a half dozen IBM keyboards that had coke, coffee, and hot chocolate spilled on them and they all recovered. 2. Technically you need distilled, demineralized water. You can use tap water if it is low in mineral content. 3. If you need a solvent to cut grease or oil you can use dish detergent. Make sure it doesn't have any additives like hand lotion. Dawn works well. 4. Disassemble the keyboard and remove any batteries. It's a keyboard so I would think there aren't any. 5. You will wash all the parts of the keyboard including the circuit board in warm water (room temperature will work, just slower). If there is any petroleum contaminates you can use the dish detergent. If any of the contaminates are dried you may need to soak the parts and scrub them lightly with a plastic brush (a toothbrush will work). 6. Once the parts are clean rinse them thoroughly in water. 7. Get a cookie sheet and cover it with tin foil. Spread the keyboard parts on the sheet including the keyboard case and all the electronics. You may need more than one cookie sheet if you have a lot of parts. 8. Put the cookie sheet(s) in the oven and set it to bake at the lowest possible temperature setting (usually warm). Prop the door open about an inch. I close a wooden spoon in the top edge of the door to keep the door from closing all the way. 9. Leave the parts in the oven for 3 to 5 hours. The heat in the oven will insure that all the water will evaporate even if the air outside the oven has high humidity. This will also overcome the surface tension on any water that gets in tiny spaces so it will dry out. 10. Let the parts return to room temperature and then reassemble the keyboard. 11. Cross your fingers and test the keyboard. Thankfully it is older equipment and they tend to be more resilient. 12. if the keyboard is a goner you can contact the Atlanta Historical Computing Society and see of one of the collectors has keyboard they will give/trade/sell. Good luck, keith -- Keith R. Watson Georgia Institute of Technology IT Support Professional Lead College of Computing [email protected] 801 Atlantic Drive NW (404) 385-7401 Atlanta, GA 30332-0280 > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:tech-chat- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of JACK > Sent: Monday, July 14, 2014 15:27 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [tech-chat] Serious Weekend Wreck! > > > > > On 07/14/14, Watson, Keith wrote: > > Was the keyboard power on at the time? > > keith > > > ____Yes, Power was on. Not for long but probably enough... > > > Thanks for reply.___________________________________________ > tech-chat mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxmoose.com/mailman/listinfo/tech-chat > _______________________________________________ > tech-chat mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxmoose.com/mailman/listinfo/tech-chat _______________________________________________ tech-chat mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxmoose.com/mailman/listinfo/tech-chat
