No, despite the frequent tone here at twc, the post title’s not sarcastic. *heh* It’s this stuff:
In fact, the whole range of Caig DeoxIt products are great for a wide array of electronics. Example (one of many), I fished an old 2GB flash drive out of the washer the other day after it had apparently been through more than a few cycles. The plastic case was beat up a bit, it was full of water and the connector had even begun to rust.
Not good, eh?
Nah, not good, but a wee spray of the product pictured above, some careful wipes with one of the non-static wipes included in a small computer maintenance kit from Caig and a lil judicious cleaning with one of the sponge-tipped swabs and… plug the thing in and it was fine.
Now, would it have worked had I just dried it out? Maybe, maybe even probably. But cleaning all the contacts (and removing the rust) was a Very Good Thing. Why did I reach for my lil DeoxIt kit first thing though? Because over time I’ve had very good experiences restoring bad electrical/electronics connections in a lot of different applications. Bad memory modules? Maybe not. Clean contacts (both on the memory module itself and on the motherboard of the computer) and… in every case but one, flakiness has been abated or completely done away with. Nice. Peripheral card flaky? DeoxIt has frequently saved my bacon there, too. In my experience, just about anything that needs a good electrical connection and removal of or protection from corrosion, etc., can benefit from DeoxIt.
And Caig doesn’t pay me a dime for my opinion.
The computer I’m using to write this post? It was a “barebones” HP that I very nearly gutted, did disassemble, and reassembled and modded with appropriately upgraded parts and… the appropriate Caig DeoxIt product everywhere an electrical connection is–including, but not limited to, the CPU, memory and all peripheral cards.
Memory slots in the lil Asus that’s my first-in-line secondary computer, battery connection, power connection, hard drive, etc., all DeoxIt treated.
It just makes sense to me to have those potential failure points protected. My computers reward me for this kind of treatment with mostly limiting their problems to just software issues. *heh*
Of course, since I’ve fallen behind on treating some other equipment (why have I not treated the new stuff in my networking closet? Why? Laziness?), now that I have gotten my lil kit out again, I suppose I need to get on some of the other stuff laying around. I’ve been “promising” myself I’d get that done Real Soon Now for too long. 😉
Oooh Oooh Maybe that would work on my Mac keyboard the kids messed up. LOL
Diane, if it’s a wired keyboard, try this (if you dare):
Place it in the upper rack of your dishwasher and run it through a simple cycle WITHOUT any detergent. NO DRYING CYCLE. Remove it, shake out water, blow water out with canned air and then let it sit for a couple of days to dry out thoroughly.
I’ve done this in the past with quite a few wonky keyboards to good effect. Of course, I always have spare keyboards laying around, troo, so I’m not cut off from keyboarding when I do this. (Spare keyboard and mouse: what a novel idea! ;-))