Spilling Stuff into Keyboards

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<p>Today I was dealt a rather odd tech support question. My friend's aunt spilled a cup of tea into her keyboard. It's an Apple keyboard, circa 2003, and is the wireless variety.</p>

<p>Now I've spilled water into one of my keyboards and have dealt with someone who spilled chocolate milk onto a keyboard. Both keyboards were fine--but they were also older keyboards that were not only built like bricks but also were easy to take apart--one had removable keyswitches and the other I drained by taking the Phillips Head screws out of it.</p>

<p>If anyone here has spilled tea (or coffee, for that matter) down their keyboard, please share the end result. She's going to let it air-dry but doesn't have the necessary hex wrench to take it apart.</p>

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<p>I read somewhere that it was possible to wash your keyboards in the dishwasher, not sure about wireless ones though. </p>

<p>Tea is mostly water, so unless it was really hot, i shouldn't be worse than the chocolate milk.</p>

<p>If it was on though, it could present a problem by shorting the circuit.</p>

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<p>some hot chocolate was spilled on my families keyboard. the keys gradually stopped working, and we had to get a new keyboard.
it was a imac with a pretty basic keyboard.</p>