Have you had a hard time keeping contact?
It may depend what you are working with, but in many electronic devices, isopropyl alcohol is very useful. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopropyl_alcohol
My Microsoft Intellimouse was dying. The left click would occasionally work. I thought about unsoldering and resoldering existing buttons, given I almost never use the forward button, but I gave alcohol a try. Since then the mouse has been working like day one.
Regarding the purity of the alcohol, I recommend a 70% alcohol to 30% water mixture. Sometimes a spill will dry, but the contents will not dissolve in pure alcohol but will in water ie. salt or sugar. That will give a better chance that the contaminated area will be cleansed of the spilt liquid.
It has worked on two laptops and motherboards so far.
Yeah, I've spilled things on my laptop before. It wasn't very fun, that's all i'm saying. Thanks for the tips though. I'm sure that they will be helpful next time I spill on it.
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