I built my first keyboard a few years ago. Love it. Though my cat knocked a drink over into it a year or so ago and i was too upset to see what did and didn’t work. Today I found the keyboard and decided to see if it works! Well it seems the space bar and H key are effed. I think the 3 keys on the right are also busted but I forget what they do lol. They don’t trigger anything on the keyboard tester.

I hoped that I could just hot swap some switches and be good but it seems H and space and whatever is on my bottom right corner do not work no matter the switch. I imagine that means the board is bad? Prob no fixing? At least it seems I can just swap the board and should be good to go. Thought I’d ask for tips…

  • fl42v@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    I’d do smth like this:

    1. Disassemble the poor bastard;
    2. photograph the board (knowing what was damaged helps in case you need to find dead components);
    3. Remove whatever is left from the liquid (there are specialized chemicals, but also some alcohol can work);
    4. Check if it works;

    If it does not, check if the diodes are alive, then if some traces from keys in q-n are corroded. If so, replace the diodes or restore the traces with thin wire. I doubt there’s something more complicated going on