beer/on/keyboard!

[longers]

Please/excuse/the/lack/of/spaces/but/I've/just/spilled/half/a/can/of/Grolsch/on/this/laptop/

What/to/do?

I/tried/to/get/as/uch/as/possible/off/but/what/next?

The/spacebutton/isn't/working/and/the/key/to/the/right/of/n/has/packed/up.

The/backspace/button/is/playing/up/too.

This/is/genuine/and/not/a/windup.

 

[1LegRikk]

Strip it down, wash the membrain in warm water then hang in airing cupboard or on radiator for a day or so to dry.

 

[longers]

Thanks/i'll/get/the/little/screwdrivers/out.

Goodnight/

 

[Mr Pig]

Coincidentally, I poured a cup of diluting juice over my son's laptop last night!

Whipped the battery and power cord out, turned the thing upside down to shake out the worst of it. Then I vacuumed the keyboard, sucking off a key in the process!

Took it to bits and it's drying over a radiator as we speak. Fished the key out of the hoover bag. I was desperate to get it back together last night as it's cracking me up wondering if it's ok or not.

That's the problem with laptops. Used to be that if you spilled stuff in the keyboard it was just the keyboard that was killed but with a laptop it's the whole machine. He took it well though. First thing he said was "Is it insured?". Not bad for a ten-year-old, I hadn't even thought about that it that point.

 

[1LegRikk]

Mr Pig, anything thats not water needs to be washed out, as above strip it down wash it in distilled water if possible then leave to dry for a week.
Don't do this with the screen though just the base, also take out the cd/dvd drive and leave it unless thats also had a drink.
Get a laptop membrain to cover the base, stops spillages nicely

 

[alecstilleyedye]

maybe/your/posting/style/will/be/as/distinctive/as/keith/oates'

 

[ColinJ]

I phoned a mate once when he was the worse for wear, having finished one bottle of wine and being well on with a second. I had a long conversation with him during which he told me all about his new Apple laptop and how pleased he was with it.

As the chat came to an end, he said "By the way, what should you do if you spill red wine into a laptop?"

"Switch it off immediately, stand it on its edge to drain the wine out, oh and remove the battery and any other bits that can be unplugged. Why?"

"When you rang, the phone made me jump and I knocked a glass of wine over my Mac...!"

"Sh*t - what's it doing now!"

"There are funny stripey [stripy?] coloured patterns all over the screen, and it's making a weird whistling noise!"

(It never worked again )

PS Mr Pig - Oops!

 

[Crackle]

Fingers crossed Longers that it's just the keyboard. You'll be very lucky if you get away with it.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

I phoned a mate once when he was the worse for wear, having finished one bottle of wine and being well on with a second. I had a long conversation with him during which he told me all about his new Apple laptop and how pleased he was with it.

As the chat came to an end, he said "By the way, what should you do if you spill red wine into a laptop?"

"Switch it off immediately, stand it on its edge to drain the wine out, oh and remove the battery and any other bits that can be unplugged. Why?"

"When you rang, the phone made me jump and I knocked a glass of wine over my Mac...!"

"Sh*t - what's it doing now!"

"There are funny stripey [stripy?] coloured patterns all over the screen, and it's making a weird whistling noise!"

(It never worked again )

PS Mr Pig - Oops!

i'll have to make sure i don't do that, as the battery on the macbook needs a coin to undo a screw to remove, unlike the old ones that came out at the pull of a lever.

 

[bonj2]

take it back to the shop looking innocent.

 

[fossyant]

That same thing happened to our laptop at christmas - one of my relatives spilled beer over it (wasn't me they siad....) - kids went to use it and found it soaked - tipped the laptop up and poured the beer out. Switched off pronto and left it overnight. The power button was a little sticky at first, but it's OK now...

 

[Mr Pig]

One of the guys at worked killed a brand new Mac keyboard, one of the flat aluminium ones, by spilling a bowl of soup over it! What a mess. I took it home and stripped it, washed it out etc, but it was no use. I think there were about three keys that just would not work.

The other guy in his office said it was his own stupid fault. He sits looking at the things on the net that he's not supposed to then jumps out of his skin when the office door opens.

The only reason I was using my son's laptop is that ours is faulty. My wife asked which computer I was going to kill next! :0(

 

[longers]

*posted from work*

Twas one of those days yesterday, they call it the reverse midas touch don't they?

I surprised myself by getting it apart without seemingly breaking anything, so fingers crossed for getting it back together tonight.

 

[PBancroft]

If it was a laptop, the best mental attitude is to consider them disposable. Sooner or later they break and you've got just a hope in hell of fixing it.

If it was a keyboard to a desktop, buy a spare. They're only a tenner or so.

 

[Crackle]

Longers? Are you there Longers? Have you got some screws leftover from taking it apart? We might never find out 'till tomorrow.