


This has two prongs on the left and a bar on the right to attach it to the metal frame. Most keys are attached with the same mechanism: a kind of "picnic table" gizmo attaches them to a metal frame on the laptop. There don't seem to be any good tutorials online for removing and cleaning MacBook keys and hence this page. Luckily, about a week later it fired up again and everything was still there so my advice to anyone who does the same is to leave the machine for a week before trying to turn it on again as the moisture may still be inside. When I tried to switch it on again I was confronted with the dreaded flashing question mark and the guys at the Mac shop said I'd fried my hard-drive.

About halfway through my summer project I managed to spill a half pint of orange squash on the keyboard of my beloved MacBook.
