cleaning laptop

Ok so last night I was pre-lashing with some mates in my room and playing the pes drinking game. During that time, someone knocked over a drink onto my laptop - double vodka lemonade to be precise. Luckily my laptop was off at the time, and I left it all to dry out until just now in the hope that it would escape unscathed which it mostly has.

BUT the only problem is that my keyboard buttons are harder to push down compared to normal (im guessing because of the stickiness of the drink) so my question is this: Is there any way i can clean the keyboard so that the buttons are easier to push down?

Im not sure if this would be covered by dell warranty (if you think it might then please correct me) and i would prefer not to unscrew bits of my laptop as im pretty sure it would void the warranty and i would probably break it.

Any advice is appreciated! :)
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how about you just make something more of it so that you can claim it on the warranty! :D

that's all i could come up with x(

HOWS CARDIFF? xD
good cheers mate :) hows life for you?
Parent
not bad mate
doin my A-levels now :P
was in cardiff on friday night! where were you!?!
Parent
where did you go?
Parent
You need to clean the sticky shit out with an alcohol based cleaning fluid and cotton buds. Best to lift the keyboard out to do that. There are guides on the dell website for most laptops for dismantling to upgrade RAM etc, should see you right.
what the fuck is double vodka 'lemonade'?
2 shots of vodka and a mixer
Parent
lemonade = sprite/7up whatever its branded as in ur country
Parent
Sprite and 7up are both lemon-lime :p
Parent
same shit! :P
Parent
True, but schweppes is king!

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Parent
we dnt have that here :D
we have schweppes bitter lemmon, which sucks :d
Parent
stop jizzing on ur laptop, we all know it wasnt dbl vodka and lemonade
spray water onto it (from like a small bottle) and then wipe it all up, then use a hair dryer.

All while off obviously X:
Hf melting the keys with the hairdryer.
Parent
no warranty, they will find the liquid damage inside.

I work at a repair center for mobile phones, and well liquid damage is kinda easy to spot (leaves white and/or green marks behehind when dryed out).

and water etc can even damage your electronic machines when turned off.

I hope you get it fixed, but DON'T send it in for warranty because you'll just lose your laptop or you have to pay to get your broken laptop back from most repair centers. (dunno about dell though)

best thing to do I guess is, try to clean it with a soft brush with only a little alcohol on it and try to get between the keys. JUST NEVER USE WATER TO CLEAN ELECTRONICAL STUFF!

gl with it.
There is a video where a guy takes a laptop in parts and washes every part except the monitor part with water. Works fine.
Parent
water damages the eletronical parts (most are made of copper and copper+watter=corrosion) you won't notice it the first time, maybe not the second but the third time you'll see your laptop is just fucked up.

Corrosion on a simple connector or smth in you laptop can cause it to malfunction.
Parent
Actually copper doesn't corrode easily.
Parent
but it doesn, and I repair mobile phones and we get a lot of them with non repairable liquid damage.

water in eletronical machines will look like this:
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Parent
I know how it looks. But if you clean a part with water and dry it well it wont corrode faster.
Parent
just use distilled water, not tap water. no problem at all.
Parent
but still alcohol is a better solution
Parent
Spilling alcohol on his keyboard is what caused this problem in the first place!
Parent
but it wasn't 100% pure cleaning alcohol

i'm not saying he should clean his laptop with vodka or smth.
Parent
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