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    I could cry!!! FZ21Z MEETS JUICE!!!!!!!

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Aibo82, May 23, 2008.

  1. Aibo82

    Aibo82 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi

    I was on my laptop yesterday and I have a glass of juice next to me I lifted my hand frommy mouse and caught the top of the glass spilling half a glass of juice onto my keyboard.

    Well I imedietly unpluged the power adapter fliped the laptop upside down with the screen open and removed the battery! about a teaspoon of juice came out one end of the keyboard.

    I spent most of yesterday removing every key off the keyboard I cleaned the membrain with a damp cloth and washed each key, between the membrain I cant clean as sony have put a blue seal round all the contacts and it dont look like anything has seaped in!

    I the striped the laptop using the guide on here and the juice only seemed to had got as far as the top of the drive between the chassi of the laptop of the dvd-drive and back of keyboard i cleaned that up and checked for more on the mainboard but all was dry i think!

    I rebuilt the laptop keyboard and powerd it all up and its working fine and keyboard working ok im even typing on it now! would you think I got away with it?

    The laptop is unscratched and no tape broke on conectors and no screws churned the only thing i did scratch is the drive pulling it out as the lable got stuck on the chassie screw so you think id get away with my warrenty?

    Thanks for your help

    Carl

    (sorry its long winded!)
     
    Aibo82, May 23, 2008
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  2. tangograndma

    tangograndma Notebook Geek

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    You can pull the HD and DVD out and the LCD disconnected and wash it in the bath: warm soapy water and then dry it good too.
    SEriously!!!

    Just don't plug it in until it's dry- maybe a week or so drying.. or use a nice soft baby towel, and fluff some baby powder on yourself while you're at it. LOL!

    Yeah, this is why distributors like Dell offer the "coffee spill" warranty- they can simply bath and wash most of the components and everything will be fine, unless something shorted out- and

    ...#*%Fzzzzz- SNAP! -!****
     
    tangograndma, May 23, 2008
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  3. bubbatex

    bubbatex Notebook Deity

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    Really - you can wash the whole thing out after taking the above parts out?? Wow!

    My daughter knocked a soda can over and splashed some onto the keyboard of my older FS550. I took keys off, cleaned with alcohol, etc. for months and still had "sticky" keys for a year. The only problem you may have is that you did not get it all and some of the sugar was left behind - it will get sticky in a few weeks/month and you will have to clean some more. But it sounds like you did a good job the first time.
     
    bubbatex, May 23, 2008
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