How-To: Recover from a Soda-Spill Disaster | Maximum PC
There are few moments in life quite as sickening as realizing that you’ve spilled a beverage on one of your gadgets. The feeling can range from mild infuriation spilling a Bud Light on your PlayStation controller to near-coronary levels knocking over a Mountain Dew: Code Red onto your brand-new laptop. Either way, it’s never something you want to go through. Because of that, we’ve put together a simple disaster plan for dealing with beverage-soiled electronics. We hope you never have to use it, but if you do, you’ll be glad you read it.
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My spill was coffee onto my laptop keyboard. At least the keyboard was solid underneath so it kept the spill from getting to anything else. After a good cleaning and allowing it to dry, it lived to compute another day.