Wine, women, and song payment!

[Larry McGinn]

I finally got off my dead arse and shipped you some money, around 35 Euros, about what I paid when you required payment. Worth every penny.

[Dr Keyboard]

Thankyou Larry, and thanks to everyone who's contributed over the past month or so. I am very, very grateful. Hosting is paid for the next year and the domain name for two. And I've got over my funk and am happy to answer stupid questions once more (not yours, obviously, none of you are stupid).
Cheers!

[Michael]

I poured gravy in my keyboard and now the G key doesn't work. What can I do? I don't want to replace the keyboard as it's my favourite.

[Jon]

Run it through the dishwasher. Better hold it while you do this so it doesn't get bounced around too badly, though.

[Laurie]

Did you hear the story of the person who had heard ou could clean a keyboard by putting it in a bath of cold water overnight then leaving it to dry off.  he tried putting his laptop in overnight but it didnt work the next day 

[Ron S]

I poured gravy in my keyboard and now the G key doesn't work. What can I do?

Make yourself a nice Yorkshire Pudding and use the Keyboard as a conversation piece for Sunday Lunch

[Dave Robinson]

Run it through the dishwasher. Better hold it while you do this so it doesn't get bounced around too badly, though.

You know? I originally heard the old dishwasher advice through DrK many years ago, and although I believed it, I never had the chance to try it for myself.

Until a couple of weeks ago...

I was just sitting down for a Saturday evening surfing around and playing some online games, and I'd poured myself a pint glass of cider which I had left over in the fridge from Christmas.

As I picked the glass up for the first mouthful, the glass must've been cracked and the whole bottom fell out of it. A pint of sticky cider went everywhere, fortunately missing the tower unit itself, but completely drenching the keyboard.

The next morning it was completely glued-up. Luckily I had an old keyboard as spare that I could swap over, but thought to myself, hmmm why not, give it a go. So into the dishwasher it went! 3 or 4 days later after letting it dry out thoroughly in the airing cupboard, the keyboard was working perfectly again!

I did realize that I prefered the old keyboard though - but that was pretty icky too - so flushed with success I gave that one the treatment too - now I have TWO as new keyboards!

I never had any reason to doubt the advice, but now I can say I've seen it first hand.

[johnp]

Dave - I take it you put the keyboards in the dishwasher without other dishes!  Once I was too mean to run the dishwasher just for the keyboard - still came out sparkling except fror the spots of dried tomato skin on every other key.

AND I've tried putting failing hard disk drives in the freezer - and it worked twice!

[Ron S]

Just to make this keyboard and dishwasher thread clear for inexperienced readers - I use wireless keyboards (which ain't that expensive recently and are soooo practical) and there is no way I would recommend putting them through a dishwasher or anywhere near liquid.
The so practical and useful advise posted previously is for CORDED (plug in) keyboards only.

Sorry all if I've caught my wife's disease of 'stating the blinking obvious' 

[Dr Keyboard]

Dave - I take it you put the keyboards in the dishwasher without other dishes!  Once I was too mean to run the dishwasher just for the keyboard - still came out sparkling except fror the spots of dried tomato skin on every other key.

If you're getting bits left on your dishes you're doing it wrong. Rinse them well first - I used to do this for a living....