At 12:24 PM 7/21/2013, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>Most electronic components can tolerate washing with distilled water and
>then full drying but some parts, notably electromechanical parts like

Getting power off instantly is key, though.  Modern circuit boards
may have extremely fine circuitry with no copper to spare to electrolysis.

Some years ago I was present when half an ounce or so of water was
spilled into the keyboard of a Thinkpad T42 laptop.  I had the main
battery out in seconds, and had it disassembled to where the CMOS
backup battery could be unplugged in maybe three
minutes.  Unfortunately ALL the traces on the circuit board within an
inch or so of the CMOS battery terminals had simply vanished by
then.  There were dozens of them, I didn't even consider trying to
repair them.  They were microscopically small.  I was too shattered
to photograph it.

Yrs,
David