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Current version by: Dave Husted

Title:

Spilled coffee on keyboard now battery won't charge

Text:

I spilled coffee (fully loaded with all the goodies) on my Surface Book keyboard.  I dried it off and rinsed it (upside down) with water to get the stickyness out of it.  I let the keyboard battery fully discharge and put in a bag of rice (the big one from Costco) for a week.  The clipboard still works fine and I can connect it to the base and the base trackpad and keyboard works but the base battery will no longer charge.  I have heard that sending it in is a minimum $750 charge from MSFT.  Willing to try and take it apart via your teardown video and ifixit kit, to see about drying the innards out but what adhesive do I use to put it back together?

Device:

Microsoft Surface Book

Status:

open

Accepted Answer:

+305383

Original post by: Dave Husted

Title:

Spilled coffee on keyboard now battery won't charge

Text:

I spilled coffee (fully loaded with all the goodies) on my Surface Book keyboard.  I dried it off and rinsed it (upside down) with water to get the stickyness out of it.  I let the keyboard battery fully discharge and put in a bag of rice (the big one from Costco) for a week.  The clipboard still works fine and I can connect it to the base and the base trackpad and keyboard works but the base battery will no longer charge.  I have heard that sending it in is a minimum $750 charge from MSFT.  Willing to try and take it apart via your teardown video and ifixit kit, to see about drying the innards out but what adhesive do I use to put it back together?

Device:

Microsoft Surface Book

Status:

open