Bill Pragnell wrote:
> 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?
> 
> :-\

just make sure it gets enough exercise so it doesn't get a beer belly......

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