Cleaning Laptop Keyboards

[highwayxingfrog]

I almost flipped out the night I spilled Soda all over my beloved laptop, but after a week of "drying" (for the lack of a better term), the darn thing started working again.

So I pulled out all the keys, soaked them in soapy water, and cleaned them out, but I was wondering if there was an easy way to clean out the sticky dry soda from under the keys. It works fine but the buttons remain recessed and I can feel the stickyness hindering the keys. Do I have no other choice but to take it apart and clean the chassis?

Any tips would be much appreciated

- Frogs

 

[TitanDiddly]

Use a gentle solvent, maybe rubbing alcohol. It evaporates fast too.

 

[highwayxingfrog]

Rubbing alchohol eh? Thanks for the tip!

 

[jschuk]

My aunt claimed she could usually get about 3 cleanings with using rubbing alcohol before the kybd would stop working all together. Other than running a non-working kybd under hot water for about 5 minutes (still didn't work) I have not tried to clean a kybd.