Spilt Milk on Keyboard !

[gunston]

reading while having a glass of fresh milk in front of my lovely Thinkpad this morning, and accidentally spilt on to the keyboard.

Quickly shut it down,
dismantled the keboard and cleaned with dry clothe.

ooohh, luckily it came Alive again during night !!!


that's WHY i love Thinkpad.

[ThinkPad]

Lucky!

[Robbyrobot]

Indeed lucky, as milk contains sugar that carbonizes and forms conductive pathways. If this were my computer, I think I'd dismantle it completely, clean everything with cotton swabs ("Q-Tips") moistened with isopropanol and a little water, then dry everything for a day with a hair dryer on low and then leave it for a couple of days before reassembling. Just to be sure...

When I finally get time, I have a T40 with a (coffee) spill myself (bought in that condition), and will be trying to get it back in shape. After "reanimating" an A20p with a bad spill and even corrosion on the mainboard because of that, I'm a good deal more hopeful than I used to be... it's amazing what these Thinkpads can take sometimes.

[DoctorLondom]

I've had this happen (but not with a Thinkpad keyboard). I'd recommend removing the keyboard and dousing it with alcohol. Leave it somewhere dry for a few hours after doing this. The problem with milk is the smell that will come if it isn't washed out of all the crevices and scissor hinges.

For the record, I have cleaned A31 and T23 keyboards this way with no side effects at all. be sure to let it dry, though.

[Bgradid]

I spilt liquid onto my thinkpad twice in one week last week (after owning it for almost two years and not having spilt anything)

Immediately shutoff both times, quickly tipped upside down (don't know if that was the best idea or not) thinkpad innards and keyboard are completely ok, the keyboard is well built to act as a kind of 'reservoir' it seems.

I'm never putting a tall bottle of beer directly infront of my thinkpad again. Sturdy drinking mugs from hereon in

[mgo]

I spilt liquid onto my thinkpad twice in one week last week (after owning it for almost two years and not having spilt anything)

Immediately shutoff both times, quickly tipped upside down (don't know if that was the best idea or not) thinkpad innards and keyboard are completely ok, the keyboard is well built to act as a kind of 'reservoir' it seems.

I'm never putting a tall bottle of beer directly infront of my thinkpad again. Sturdy drinking mugs from hereon in

Because I am such a clumsy klutz....the closest any liquids get to my ThinkPad is...the kitchen!...20 feet away.

[ajkula66]

mgo wrote:

Because I am such a clumsy klutz....the closest any liquids get to my ThinkPad is...the kitchen!...20 feet away.

I'm another one like you...and treat my machines the same way....

Anyone who thinks that milk is bad (which undoubtedly is) should've seen an X24 someone has brought to me a couple of years ago after dumping a pint of room-temperature Cherry Garcia ice cream on the keyboard...

[Tim M]

I'm never putting a tall bottle of beer directly infront of my thinkpad again.

For me it was a vodka martini.

Fortunately it just got the front edge of the palmrest (where the cover latch holes are), so little cleanup needed. Hey, it evaporated pretty quickly.

[Robm]

Totally off topic, but my wife once spilled just a tiny bit of eggnog in our hot tub and a week later we opened the cover and man did that stink!

[gunston]

well,

the trackpoint seem like working crazy and not listen to command.
Sent in for repair..
hopefully they won't find out....