On Dec 21, 2022, at 18:38, Jonathan Fletcher <lists@...> wrote:
You hope the liquid didn¡¯t make it to the motherboard. If so, it¡¯s time to buy a new computer.
The computer works fine. The keys just crunch, are hard to press down, and stick. So... not sure that there are problems inside. Of course, maybe some could come up later.
If it is ONLY the keyboard affected, then the machine can be disassembled and the keyboard washed thoroughly with warm clean water. I have saved several corded keyboards by running them through a soapless, heatless dishwasher cycle. It is possible that something similar can be done with a laptop keyboard that is separated from its enclosure.
Eek. I looked at some teardown videos, and they look really difficult. BUT, I did find a better video about getting the keycaps (and only the keycaps) off. I'll put it here, in case anyone else ever wants to look at it, and (possibly) comment back after buying some playing cards and toothpicks.
Bill
Jonathan
On Dec 21, 2022, at 6:31 PM, Bill Rising via groups.io <brising@...> wrote:
Hi all,
My mom has a MBP 13" 2020 M1 laptop, on which she must've spilled something with sugar in it.
The keyboard is now a crunchy sticky mess, and nearly impossible to type on. (Typing makes loud crunching sounds, and both shift keys get stuck down and have to be pried back up much of the time.) [1]
When I searched around for how to clean up such a mess, all I could find was Apple's advice to blow air along the edges of the keys while holding the keyboard at a 70? angle. I did this once, and it seemed to have helped a little. Now things are awful, again, so I tried blasting air, again, to no avail.
I could take the computer to an Apple store/Apple authorized dealer, but my mom lives in East Nowhere, New Hampshire, and the nearest authorized Apple repair place is 1 1/2 hours away (seriously, I just looked it up ... the second-closest is 2 hours away).
Does anyone have experience removing the keys on a 'Magic Keyboard' [2]? Videos linked from iFixit make the keys look like rather delicate things to work on. If they are delicate, I'll puzzle out how to get the computer fixed without a zillion hours driving and waiting. Otherwise I feel like I should start popping the keycaps off and cleaning them.
Thanks for any advice,
Bill
[1] Worst of all is typing passwords, because the Gods of the Computer World usually won't let you see what is being typed. My mom obviously gets frustrated, and sometimes gets locked out of accounts.
[2] Magic as in 'possessed'
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