R
Rewar
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Hello
About a month ago a few keys on my PC keyboard were not always responding so I
disassembled it, cleaned it and put it back in service. This particular garden
variety keyboard has a flexible black plastic template which holds the
individual keys, i.e., when the keyboard is disassembled the keys are still
held in place by the template. The template plus keys was cleaned with tap
water then rinsed with distilled water and set in the sun to dry. After a few
hours I picked it up and shook it and something less than a ml of water came
out from the keys themselves. So, I hung the template+keys up in the patio
overnight to finish drying. A couple of days later I noticed that some of the
leaves on a 30+ yearold, very hardy holly bush that had been underneath the
hungup template were turning brown. A few more days and there was a well
defined section of the bush where all the leaves were dead. What it _looks_
like happened is a heavy toxic plume drifted down from and slightly to the left
of the template. To get an idea of why it looks like that happened, imagine
looking down on the (round) bush with a clock face superimposed on it. A sector
defined by a triangle drawn from 4 to 7 to 9 contains all of the dead leaves
and nothing but dead leaves. The template was hung over a line from 12 to 6
and in the middle of the dead triangle.
Now I know it is very unlikely that what looks like happened actually happened
- it's probably just a coincidence. But that odd remanent of bright green
leaves in the 4,5,6,7 sector keeps me wondering.
Any ideas?
Robert
About a month ago a few keys on my PC keyboard were not always responding so I
disassembled it, cleaned it and put it back in service. This particular garden
variety keyboard has a flexible black plastic template which holds the
individual keys, i.e., when the keyboard is disassembled the keys are still
held in place by the template. The template plus keys was cleaned with tap
water then rinsed with distilled water and set in the sun to dry. After a few
hours I picked it up and shook it and something less than a ml of water came
out from the keys themselves. So, I hung the template+keys up in the patio
overnight to finish drying. A couple of days later I noticed that some of the
leaves on a 30+ yearold, very hardy holly bush that had been underneath the
hungup template were turning brown. A few more days and there was a well
defined section of the bush where all the leaves were dead. What it _looks_
like happened is a heavy toxic plume drifted down from and slightly to the left
of the template. To get an idea of why it looks like that happened, imagine
looking down on the (round) bush with a clock face superimposed on it. A sector
defined by a triangle drawn from 4 to 7 to 9 contains all of the dead leaves
and nothing but dead leaves. The template was hung over a line from 12 to 6
and in the middle of the dead triangle.
Now I know it is very unlikely that what looks like happened actually happened
- it's probably just a coincidence. But that odd remanent of bright green
leaves in the 4,5,6,7 sector keeps me wondering.
Any ideas?
Robert