So, last night I knocked over a full can of beer onto my MacBook. Which 
was open, turned on and rendering (as usual). Most of the spillage went 
directly onto the keyboard. As you can imagine, I let out a set of 
strangled expletives and fairly levitated from my chair to deal with the 
catastrophe.

I turned it off, tipped the excess beer off the keyboard and took out 
the battery. Then I spent the best part of an hour trying to find a set 
of screwdrivers small enough to permit a careful disassembly; having 
found some, I then sat down and, well, carefully disassembled it. A bit 
of respect to Apple here - I was expecting to have to break something at 
this point, but the entire keyboard lifted off in its entirety with a 
minimum of fuss (although there were about 15 screws in the battery bay 
alone that I didn't immediately notice). I took out the RAM too.

Next, I liberally hosed down the keyboard and laptop interior with lab 
grade ethanol, soaked up the excess with paper towels, played a cold 
hairdryer over the whole thing for a few minutes and left it to dry. As 
I type, there it still sits.

I will reassemble it this evening and fire it up to see what's what. In 
the meantime, does anyone have any additional advice?

:-\

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