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RE: Shopshots week 12. Expensive coffee spill.
Liquids are the bane of electronics. I spilled some water on the keyboard of my wife's Apple laptop a couple years ago. She used it for work and it was a higher end model.
It was off and immediately turned it upside down and we let it dry for several days. When we tried to turn it back on it was dead. Apparently apple doesn't have a thin rubber membrane between the keyboard and the motherboard. Or if they do for some reason it didn't work very well. It wasn't even that much water. We had to buy a new computer. About a $2500 hit!
Oh man that sucks. Probally home insurance would have covered that in some weird way.
I actually washed the above circuit board and it worked correctly afterwords, but it was already an insurance claim and they said replace it or it will be on our shop should it fail in the future