Congratulations, we have all learned something! "I am not defeated until I give up" BTW: What brand of soap did you use? John Ferrell W8CCW "The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own=20 money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the=20 public moneys." --Thomas Jefferson On 9/24/2010 2:21 AM, V G wrote: > My keyboard finally works. After several passes of immersion in soapy > water and clean water, making sure to press all the keys to get the > air bubbles out and the water into all the contacts, I dried it for a > few days next to the space heater. It seems that all the keys are once > again working. And the keyboard is cleaner than ever. No damage was > done to it at all. > > $50 saved. Very little time wasted. > > Thanks for the suggestions, everyone! > > @Olin: taking it apart would have been a very bad idea. I mentioned > several times that it's a very sleek, single slab of aluminum. Trying > to disassemble it surely would have destroyed it. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .