SPILT STUFF ON YOUR MAC? ALL MAY NOT BE LOST!
Made the jump from P.C to mac at last and all was going well or so I thought!!!
Right what to do, after uncrossing my fingers, testicles e.t.c I decide to try and source a new keyboard, £170 fitted mmm not ideal for a skint student, £115 if I fit it myself, still not great, so the warranty is buggered anyway, I decide to take drastic action, I found a guide here on how to get the top plate off.
STEP 1 REMOVE TOP PLATE AND KEYBOARD
STEP 2
This is possibly the strangest thing Ive had to do to rectify a a classic Ric moment, so I managed to spill liquid on my mac, mmmm what will sort that out I think, yep you guessed it more liquid!! warm water with fairyliquid, very painfull to do.
sat it in the water for a while shaked it about a bit and put it in the back of the car to dry. I cross everything again and reassemble, BRILLIANT!!! it made no difference what so ever! so I was sat head in hands on the floor of the surf shop I work in about to give up! (Id like to point out that this would have probably worked if it hadnt had all night to dry and congeal)
STEP 3 A GLIMMER OF HOPE
Now this was an odd one, I went and chatted to some peeps down the local p.c shop for local people, and he recommended more alcohol! again odd but I was up for anything at this point, off to the chemist to buy some "Isopropyl B.P' for the princely sum of £5 for 500 ml, I used a small paint brush and carefully cleaned all the parts i could reach put in on a tee on the radiator to dry, so reassembly number 2, guess what, BRILLIANT!! it did nothing!!!
By this point i was ready to give up and in a bit of a huff, i grabbed the bottle and held the keyboard over the sink and poured the whole bottle over the damn thing, and contemplated selling my soul for a new keyboard, a day or 2 later i put it back together and to my supprise the half the thing WORKED!!!!! YAY!
So with renewed motivation i trotted down to the chemist again for another bottle, and this time i used a water spray bottle to aim it under the keys and used a tub to catch the alcohol, i did this twice and put it back on the radiator to dry.
Two days later the final reconstruction and all is well, all the keys are back to normal, m is a little touchy but its getting better after i took it off and gave it a good spray.
so if your thinking "SHIT I SPILT STUFF ON MY MAC!!" don't give up get some pure alcohol.
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