On 28-Aug-07, at 10:11 PM, dplumley@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > At least the rain did not get into your Powerbook... > > If you did not remove the batteries right away and if you tried the > keyboard > within 2 days of it being wet, you are probably looking at having > to buy a new > keyboard. > > (I had a bottle of water spilled on my laptop and was advised to > wait 72 hours > before even attempting to start it up. Even then, I was told, my > chances of it > working were almost zero. After a long, tortuous wait, a sign from > above and > laying on of hands, my Powerbook revived) And to think that in the olden days, when we all ran Apple //s & ADB Mac keyboards, we used to clean our keyboards in the dishwasher! I kid you not. TeeC ----------------------------------------------------------- For information about MUGLO: http://www.freewebs.com/muglo -----------------------------------------------------------