V G,

 Your mistake was spilling milk in it.

 All kidding aside, you probably should take it apart, clean the board with
Isopropyl Alcohol
 Or some similar solvent, the clean with Distilled water, and dry it off
with a blow dryer or=20
 heat gun if you have one.

 That should get it going again.

 Regards,

 Jim

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From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of
V G
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2010 3:12 PM
To: PICLIST
Subject: [OT] Got my keyboard wet, need help

Hi all,

I have an apple wired keyboard and spilled cold milk all over it this
morning. I dried it off with a paper towel but the milk got inside the
keyboard and made the keys sticky. So I took it to the sink and washed
it with cold water under the tap. The water got rid of the milk and
cleaned out the keys. I then dried it off as much as I could, and
stuck the keyboard beside a space heater for half an hour to dry it
off. I then plugged it back into the USB port. The keyboard didn't
work. Pressing the keys did not result in anything happening. So I
went to the Windows device manager and saw that the keyboard was
recognized.

Did I make the mistake of plugging the keyboard in too early? Not
giving it enough time to dry?

Could the damage be permanent?

I know I should have used distilled/deionized water to clean it off,
but I didn't have any. I didn't want the sugars in the milk
precipitating underneath the keys. I'm glad I washed it out when I
did.

It's a really nice keyboard.
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