Ken Blake wrote:

> I've never tried it myself, but I'm told by people I respect that
> if such a thing happens, you should soak the keyboard in a
> bathbub of water, then let it dry.
>
> It sounds weird to me too, but considering how low the price of a
> keyboard is, and the difficulty of taking it apart, if it
> happened to me, I'd try it.
>

That should probably work, Ken, but in times past (when keyboards were
considerably more expensive) remediation from coffee and soft drink
spills (no wine in the workplace, please!) was carried out with
supercritical CO2, otherwise known in the coffee biz as the "Swiss water
process." Since most households aren't equipped with supercritical CO2
production, soaking in water might be the most practical solution -- but
I'd use distilled water to make sure that no salt deposits were left in
the keyboard and dry the thing for a week before putting any current
through it.

Mark Lipton