Re: A&W DISASTER! Hardware Help!?!

[ddkilzer@iastate.edu (David D Kilzer)]

teke@livy.ccs.itd.umich.edu or Jeff.w.Schroeder@um.cc.umich.edu writes:

>I had a small disaster last night with my old IIe Keyboard.
>After 10 long years I finally spilt a glass of A&W Rotbeer into it.
>I have given it a bath in CRC aerosol contact cleaner, this seems
>to help for awhile, untill all the cleaner evaporates.  Then
>keys start getting sticky again!  Any soulutions would be appreciated.
>This is an emergency since it is the end of the term and 
>this machine must be depended upon for papers and other items.

As a last resort, try removing the keyboard from the //e case, taking it
to the shower with you, and rinsing it off.  I read about this in an
Apple // computer magazine a while back, but I can't remember if they
said to use soap or not.  I wouldn't use standard bar soap for sure, but
you might try dish soap.  Once you think it's clean, step out of the
shower and let it dry THOROUGHLY before plugging it back into the //e
(say, 24 hours at max).
 
Remember, this is a last-resort effort, but something you might try.
It's too bad I can't remember where I read this, but all my magazines
are at home, anyway.
 
>Lastly if I have to replace it I wil go with Shreve Systems unless
>someone knows a cheaper source!  The original keybord (pop soaked) 
>is from an old preenhanced beige machine.  Can I buy a newer
>extended key pad (Platinum) keybord for this machine?  I already
>have the old keyboard mounted in its own case with 6ft. of ribbon
>cable to emulate a GS or IBM style detached board.  Any suggestions
>would be apprecated.

Sorry, don't know about this.

Dave
-- 
David D. Kilzer               \                ST:TNG _Relics_
Computer Engineer 3           /       Capt. Montgomery Scott ("Scotty")
ddkilzer@iastate.edu          \   "I may be a captain by rank, but I never
Iowa State University, Ames   /    wanted to be anything but an engineer."