washing my keyboard in the dishwasher...

Quick update on my keyboard washing experiment: Background: I dumped red wine on a cheapo ps-2 keyboard I got from dell. It's all plastic but I like the "feel". I mopped up the wine but the keyboard would not work the next day - some keys worked, some did not, some produced odd results, some where "sticky". What I did: I read the email on using the dishwasher so I tossed it in the top rack, upside down and added a little liquid soap. I washed it on a normal cycle with no drying heat. Afterward I shook it dry and then put a hair dryer to it for about 10 minutes. I left it on it's side with a towel underneath for a day. After day I then plugged it in and it didn't work. bummer. So, I opened it up. Lots of water still inside. And, a nice thin plastic flexible pc board with lots of black contacts (carbon?). Each key had a little round rubber "dome" with a black spot (carbon?) in the middle. When a key is pressed the key presses the rubber dome and the black spot contacts the flexible pcb and makes contact. I removed and dried the flexible pcb (it still had some minor wine stains which I washed off with water. I left the whole thing open to dry for a few hours. Then I put it back together and it works like a champ! Yea! So, the dishwasher worked well and cleaned out all the crud (and most of the wine) but opening it up seemed to be the correct thing as a final step. The water inside may well have evaporated if I chased it with iso alcohol and left it in the sun but it's cold here now and I didn't do that step. Also, I think the "two layer" construction of this really required opening it up to get it to completely dry. ymmv :-) -brad