Yesterday during lunch break I managed somehow to spill my cup of coffee on my laptop. I quickly removed the battery and use tissue paper to soak up as much coffee I could. First I checked the most important part, the harddrive, no coffee there. I then removed the keyboard and DVD-drive, there was some coffee under the key board so I removed that aswell. The wifi-card had a few drops of coffee on it. The DVD-drive had some coffee on it. Then I placed the laptop standing on its side so if there was any coffee left it would just drop out and not go over the motherboard. Then back to work.

When I got home from work I opened it up and check everything, there was some dried coffee on the motherboard cleaned that up with alcohol. There was some coffee still in the DVD-drive so I opened that up, just coffee on and in the casing nothing critical.

After going through all the parts there was no coffee to be seen, but there was some coffee smell, I got lucky this time. I'm writing this on the laptop so it seems to be fine. I guess I should be more careful but still the laptop is like 15 years old so it wouln't be a big loss.

Besides that fluids and electronics generally does not mix, I've taken note that I should probably backup all my work. Since programming will be a considerable part of this project.

I might need to get a new laptop anyway since I just noticed that the G key on this keyboard is misalinged which probably means it will come off in the future. The plastic that hold both hinges are totally broken so a lot of plastic parts and screws came out. I guess the hinges get stiffer due to running out of lubricant after years of use. On a positive note the laptop is probably a few grams lighter. There is however an uncomfortable cracking sound when opening and closing the lid. :)

In hindsight I should probably have lubricated the hinges before putting it back together.