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I had the same problem with cheap keyboard, anyway when you look at the plastic sheets that have the connection running there wont be just one sheet, normally they like 3 stuck on top of each other, I had to split them and use electrical contact cleaner then wipe with with clean paper towels and let it dry, do not put on radiator any plastic components as will warp I did find the hard way.
 
Its a common misconseption that water and anything electronic dont mix :) You just need to make sure its not turned on and its try after washing lol.
 
Utterly speechless....I would bath my G15 but it has a screen, not sure if it's a good idea but the keys underneath and all over and filthy, sticky and dodgy lol.
 
My friend used to do this all the time with cherry keyboards that they were chucking at the place he worked at. Dunk them in a bath of walm water and give them a good scrub. Wrap in a towel in the airing cupboard and leave for a week and they came out like new.
 
Gibbo3771 said:
Utterly speechless....I would bath my G15 but it has a screen, not sure if it's a good idea but the keys underneath and all over and filthy, sticky and dodgy lol.
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Never wash anything with an lcd screen like that, the water will get between the protective layer and the lcd.

I once washed my ipod because I chocolate milkshaked it, soaked it right through and had to pull it apart because it was fizzing and getting quite hot. Ripped it apart, pulled off the connectors and just rinsed it under the tap. Dried it out and it was good as new. It only lasted another 8-9 months before the hard drive failed.

I also had a sony FM radio (its probably still around somewhere in a box) which survived being dunked in coolant, the needle fell off, battery compartment cracked through getting dropped so many times, and its crowning glory was when I put it in the washing machine complete with headphones by accident in my jeans pocket. Upon opening the door after washing I could hear music, and hunted through to find a dripping wet fm radio still playing the music I must have left on.
Yet you sweat on an iphone and it goes **** up and apple say it will not be fixed. Amazing what some electronics will take.
 
PhillyDee said:
Never wash anything with an lcd screen like that, the water will get between the protective layer and the lcd.

I once washed my ipod because I chocolate milkshaked it, soaked it right through and had to pull it apart because it was fizzing and getting quite hot. Ripped it apart, pulled off the connectors and just rinsed it under the tap. Dried it out and it was good as new. It only lasted another 8-9 months before the hard drive failed.

I also had a sony FM radio (its probably still around somewhere in a box) which survived being dunked in coolant, the needle fell off, battery compartment cracked through getting dropped so many times, and its crowning glory was when I put it in the washing machine complete with headphones by accident in my jeans pocket. Upon opening the door after washing I could hear music, and hunted through to find a dripping wet fm radio still playing the music I must have left on.
Yet you sweat on an iphone and it goes **** up and apple say it will not be fixed. Amazing what some electronics will take.
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I must interject here, whilst this is true for most apple products, I had the first generation iPod touch, must be, what, 7 years old now?

Still working! It has survived various soakings, droppings, standing on, and it even fell out of my pocket on a spinning ride thing on the edge of a pier in blackpool and went skating high speed across the metal, just stopping before the edge, I was amazed it lived! XD I love that iPod <3
 
Gibbo3771 said:
Utterly speechless....I would bath my G15 but it has a screen, not sure if it's a good idea but the keys underneath and all over and filthy, sticky and dodgy lol.
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I have a few g15s that need a bath, I was trying to think of a way to isolate the screen, I don't know if it's soldered on or just just screwed in and plugged with cables, otherwise I could maybe use the shower head to targed just the key areas and ignore the top part :o
 
Yea surprised how many people dont know that as long as the electrics are turned off and its fully dry when it turns back on dosent matter how wet it gets. Its the way i clean my keyboards pop all the keys off and stick it all under a shower head for 10mins. Much better than compressed air and the like.

I got a few weird looks at work cleaning a laptop keyboard in the kitchen sink and then taking it to the bathroom under the hand dryer :D (Work in IT) which actually had the same problem as your keyboard, Strongbow spilt on it the night before by a someone trying to work while drunk :P Luckily it didn't go down to motherboard
 
Yesterday I spilt an entire mug of hot coffee (with sugar) on my Dell desktop keyboard in the office. Rang IT expecting to get a replacement and the IT guy said just wash it thoroughly under running water give it a shake wipe dry and plug it back in.:eek:

Worked perfect, even though it was still wet inside and is still working today. :D
 
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