Cranberry Juice on my MACBOOK Pro

[mikeassk]

My girlfriend was opening a bottle of cranberry juice and manages to open it all over my macbook pro,

IT STILL WORKS! It was dripping out all holes and I though I was screwed.

It works fine, go apple!

[Kronie]

give it a week.......

[mikeassk]

^
why?

[Colorblinded]

Your keyboard may wind up gummed up, but that beats having the rest of the laptop fried. That's what those drain holes are good for with liquids like that which might leave a messy residue.

[MaxxuM]

I would open it up and start cleaning with a non-conductive solvent. All that sugar is going to attract bugs and dust.

[TheHoff]

Not that I know, but I read on a Mac forum that Apple has liquid-identifying stickers placed on the inside of the machines -- so if you send it in for repair, the stickers have changed color, and they know that you spilled liquid on it.

[MaxxuM]

Not that I know, but I read on a Mac forum that Apple has liquid-identifying stickers placed on the inside of the machines -- so if you send it in for repair, the stickers have changed color, and they know that you spilled liquid on it.

Yes, that is true, but I do not know if they are in the MacBook Pro's - my iPhone does have those though :confused:

[Colorblinded]

I agree, I'd pull off the keyboard and see about cleaning it and see if anything else needs cleaning. You can even usually rinse or wipe out the keyboards with water or rubbing alcohol (get some q-tips handy). I rinsed out a desktop keyboard under the shower head once after pouring a beer in it. Still works and that was several years ago.

[HSK]

Girlfriends hey! they're great at sabotaging stuff.

[Kronie]

^
why?

Sorry I was being a smart a$$. I meant it works fine now but in a week it will star to gum up. Your keyboard is going to start to stick. hopefully you didnt saturate the circuitry.

Give it a good cleaning. Can you take it apart? If so wipe it down in denatured alcohol or something similar.

Does apple really do that with stickers? Where is the trust?

[Michael_Lambert]

Not just apple, many electronics companies are using them exspecailly cell phone companies..

[mikeassk]

Yes,
I was running around like a chicken with its head cut off for a few seconds haha.

I immediately flipped it upside down pulled out the battery through it on a towel and in maybe 2 minutes had it completely disassembled.

After a thorough cleaning of the keyboard everything was fine, for a day.

Now keyboard needs either replacing (≈ 30$) or better cleaning. A few keys dont work.

Mag safe adapter is not working. So another $40 on Evilbay.

All in all the damage is very minimal.

Apple designed the keyboard (halfspeak from looking at it internally) so that liquid cannot easily get through to the meaty goodness of the computer. It all gets stuck in the keyboard assemble which is easy to remove and replace.

[mep42]

My brother spilled a whole mug of coffee on his MBP and it was perfectly fine minus the brown cd feeder.

[mikeassk]

Girlfriends hey! they're great at sabotaging stuff.

She bought me dinner :D

[Mark]

I would probably take out the battery and give it a flush with distilled water, and allow it to dry for a while/take hairdryer to it until it is fully dry, then it will be good as new :)

Oh yeah, and the MB/P's have the stickers, I don't think the old ones do though

[neil_g]

id send it off for repair anyway, especially if it had power when it happened. no amount of components could of been fried in this little mis-hap..

[sf1]

My girlfriend was opening a bottle of cranberry juice and manages to open it all over my macbook pro,

IT STILL WORKS! It was dripping out all holes and I though I was screwed.

It works fine, go apple!

Guess you could now call it a CranApple... :D

[Moppie]

I would probably take out the battery and give it a flush with distilled water, and allow it to dry for a while/take hairdryer to it until it is fully dry, then it will be good as new :)




Hair dryer + plastic electronic goods = Potential fail. :cool:

They should only be used if they have cold setting.

[Mark]

Hair dryer + plastic electronic goods = Potential fail. :cool:

They should only be used if they have cold setting.

It worked on an old crappy toshiba of mine :D

[Moppie]

It worked on an old crappy toshiba of mine :D


It didn't work on an old keyboard of mine.
Some plastics have a very low melting point :lol::lol:

[Cheesyfeet]

Would Apple juice cause problems on an Apple?
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
:)