1. Do not show people designs in the pub
While I was doing that, someone passed a basket of chicken wings over my keyboard. Nothing bad, except for the fact that the bowl with sauce in the basked wasn’t level and thus leaked over the wings and, through the basket, on my keyboard. Result: a very sticky keyboard.

2. Do not clean with a moist cloth
So I hibernated the thing at home, sprayed some all-round cleaner on a moist cloth, and carefully wiped away the sauce. Wiped dry, and then left the notebook dry for an hour more. However, “moist” is probably too wet for modern notebook keyboards (damn… where’s the time you had German-built Cherry keyboards you could hose down and then throw into the laundry dryer…), so after resuming Windows, most keys fired off double key events.

3. Last, but not least, do not dry in the oven
So I carefully put the keyboard on top of a towel in the oven, put the oven on a mere 90 degrees, and went on working with a USB keyboard connected to the notebook. Well… it seems they have invented plastics that *do* melt below water’s boiling point (beats me why…). Picture below, ’nuff said…

Update: of course, there are always people who outdo me )

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