Beer on keyboard....and the path to destruction.
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The dangers of drinking beer and surfing CP. So I'm there and I knick it over. I wipe it down, and its still working. Next day, a few of the keys are sticking down, taking ages to come back up. I take it apart carefuly, and rinse the top half in warm water to get the beer off. Purely a plastic part, and its looking good, the come loose. Not wanting to wait while it air dries, I borrow my girlfriend hair dryer. Next thing I know I've melted it beyond recognition. Ooops. And I was so careful.:(( Anyway I'm now the prowd new owner of a wireless leyboard and mouse, and they are great!!!:-D Beware the hairdryer - melter of things that melt easily!!!! Anybody else had a moment like this? Also got a new hard disk Western Digital 120GB SE with 8Mb buffer - very fast, and can't hear it. Damn good by. The performance boost is suprising.
I've had the wireless keyboard bit for a while. Excellent thing ;) ;) I keep trying to persuade my boss to get me one for work, but they won't :( Paresh Solanki There are only 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
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The dangers of drinking beer and surfing CP. So I'm there and I knick it over. I wipe it down, and its still working. Next day, a few of the keys are sticking down, taking ages to come back up. I take it apart carefuly, and rinse the top half in warm water to get the beer off. Purely a plastic part, and its looking good, the come loose. Not wanting to wait while it air dries, I borrow my girlfriend hair dryer. Next thing I know I've melted it beyond recognition. Ooops. And I was so careful.:(( Anyway I'm now the prowd new owner of a wireless leyboard and mouse, and they are great!!!:-D Beware the hairdryer - melter of things that melt easily!!!! Anybody else had a moment like this? Also got a new hard disk Western Digital 120GB SE with 8Mb buffer - very fast, and can't hear it. Damn good by. The performance boost is suprising.
Giles wrote: I take it apart carefuly, and rinse the top half in warm water to get the beer off. It happened to me once (with Coke not beer) and I cleaned my keyboard with alcohol... the keyboard went completly nuts... it was an old model, without that plastic protection between the eletronic parts and the keys... Mauricio Ritter - Brazil Sonorking now: 100.13560 Trank :beer: The alcohol is one of the greatest enemys of man, but a man who flee from his enemys is a coward. :beer:
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Giles wrote: Anybody else had a moment like this? A co-worker dropped a litre of pulped orange juice on his keyboard. Same story with a day later, after cleaning, the keys becoming a bit sticky. Right now the kb is sitting behind me in a bath looking like something out of Aliens (that inner plastic bit is just disgusting when wet.) I should try your "oh dear *feigned surprise* my kb melted, looks like I need a new one" trick to get myself a wireless set (though I am waiting for the Bluetooth ones :-D) regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and to be loved in return - Moulin Rouge Tim Smith wrote: Over here in the third world of humor (a.k.a. BBC America), peterchen wrote: We should petition microsoft to a "target=_Paul" attribute.
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Giles wrote: Anybody else had a moment like this? Only the users I used to support are that clueless. I still wonder who started the rumor that coffee was good for removing dust from keyboards... "What is it?" and he said, "I don't know. Let's kill it." - Ed Gadziemski
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I've had the wireless keyboard bit for a while. Excellent thing ;) ;) I keep trying to persuade my boss to get me one for work, but they won't :( Paresh Solanki There are only 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
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The dangers of drinking beer and surfing CP. So I'm there and I knick it over. I wipe it down, and its still working. Next day, a few of the keys are sticking down, taking ages to come back up. I take it apart carefuly, and rinse the top half in warm water to get the beer off. Purely a plastic part, and its looking good, the come loose. Not wanting to wait while it air dries, I borrow my girlfriend hair dryer. Next thing I know I've melted it beyond recognition. Ooops. And I was so careful.:(( Anyway I'm now the prowd new owner of a wireless leyboard and mouse, and they are great!!!:-D Beware the hairdryer - melter of things that melt easily!!!! Anybody else had a moment like this? Also got a new hard disk Western Digital 120GB SE with 8Mb buffer - very fast, and can't hear it. Damn good by. The performance boost is suprising.
Giles wrote: Also got a new hard disk Western Digital 120GB SE with 8Mb buffer I've got one of those a too. While I was converting my whole CD collection to .mp3s, I realized that I could probably have almost fit all the .wav files on that drive. :-D "Somedays I really wish someone would write a mass e-mail worm that quite simply, if executed, ejected the user's pod from the Matrix once and for all..." -David Wulff, The Lounge
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The dangers of drinking beer and surfing CP. So I'm there and I knick it over. I wipe it down, and its still working. Next day, a few of the keys are sticking down, taking ages to come back up. I take it apart carefuly, and rinse the top half in warm water to get the beer off. Purely a plastic part, and its looking good, the come loose. Not wanting to wait while it air dries, I borrow my girlfriend hair dryer. Next thing I know I've melted it beyond recognition. Ooops. And I was so careful.:(( Anyway I'm now the prowd new owner of a wireless leyboard and mouse, and they are great!!!:-D Beware the hairdryer - melter of things that melt easily!!!! Anybody else had a moment like this? Also got a new hard disk Western Digital 120GB SE with 8Mb buffer - very fast, and can't hear it. Damn good by. The performance boost is suprising.
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Why not spill beer directly on the hair dryer? In theory, the beer would dry due to the heat of the dryer and nullify any incident from existing the first place. Save the keyboard to type about your findings on the molecular properties of beer. :) Jeremy L. Falcon Homepage : Sonork = 100.16311
Perseverance pushes past painful promenades - providing precious peace. Surely some striving souls survive symptomatic stress? Maybe my mangling might misguide malicious miscreants?Jeremy Falcon wrote: Why not spill beer directly on the hair dryer? Even in the name of science wasting good beer is out of the question! James :) Simplicity Rules!
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Roger Wright wrote: Only the users I used to support are that clueless Thanks for the vote of confidence.;P Easiy done though when your boozed at 11pm.
LOL! Giles wrote: Easiy done though when your boozed at 11pm. I've been there before, especially after a day of tending my wayward flock:laugh: "What is it?" and he said, "I don't know. Let's kill it." - Ed Gadziemski
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Why not spill beer directly on the hair dryer? Even in the name of science wasting good beer is out of the question! James :) Simplicity Rules!
James T. Johnson wrote: Even in the name of science wasting good beer is out of the question! Wisdom! :-D Jeremy L. Falcon Homepage : Sonork = 100.16311
Perseverance pushes past painful promenades - providing precious peace. Surely some striving souls survive symptomatic stress? Maybe my mangling might misguide malicious miscreants? -
:omg: We managed to post at exactly the same time! Jeremy L. Falcon Homepage : Sonork = 100.16311
Perseverance pushes past painful promenades - providing precious peace. Surely some striving souls survive symptomatic stress? Maybe my mangling might misguide malicious miscreants?Jeremy Falcon wrote: We managed to post at exactly the same time! I think we should petition Chris for the exact times, down to the millisecond, of our two posts. See who pipped the other one at the posts... :rolleyes: :-D regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love, and to be loved in return - Moulin Rouge Tim Smith wrote: Over here in the third world of humor (a.k.a. BBC America), peterchen wrote: We should petition microsoft to a "target=_Paul" attribute.
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Giles wrote: Also got a new hard disk Western Digital 120GB SE with 8Mb buffer I've got one of those a too. While I was converting my whole CD collection to .mp3s, I realized that I could probably have almost fit all the .wav files on that drive. :-D "Somedays I really wish someone would write a mass e-mail worm that quite simply, if executed, ejected the user's pod from the Matrix once and for all..." -David Wulff, The Lounge
Daniel Ferguson wrote: I've got one of those a too. While I was converting my whole CD collection to .mp3s, I realized that I could probably have almost fit all the .wav files on that drive. Yep, sure is a big one. Plently of room for now. Thing was I never though I could use the 40GB drive I had. About 2 months ago, I realised I was down to the last 5GB. I must have a truckload of junk installed.:laugh: