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All right, it was my fault. I knocked over a can of pop, and now the E key on my computer is sticky. How do I clean it?
WD 40 might might work.
If not wally mart for less that 10 bucks you can get a new keyboard.
Take a butter knife and pop the key out. Watch for where it goes though, sometimes they take interesting travels. Get a q-tip and soak it with alcohol, and wipe the whole area around and inside the button, (the one on the keyboard). You may need to pry out some keys around it to clean better.
Thanks ladyfoxfyre. Isopropyl alcohol works?
Reeder, no. I LOVE my keyboard.
Immerse in FC-40 dielectric fluid. Agitate. Drip dry, and use as normal. 
[stern voice on]
NEVER EVER BRING A SOFT DRINK WITHIN 5 FEET OF A COMPUTER!
[/stern voice off]
Ok, carry on.
You are DOOMED.
But it’s not my fault. 
looks at keyboard.
looks at soda.
measures distance by eye…
wuh-oh…
Back when I bought my first computer in 1992, included in the price was a liquid-resistant keyboard. In the two years I had that thing, I must have spilled coke on it a dozen or more times; I never once saw any decrease in performance. Since then, I’ve never even been able to find a keyboard that’s drink-resistant. What the heck? Why isn’t this standard now if we’ve had the technology for 10 years?
–Cliffy
You can also toss it in the dishwasher. (Honest! Don’t use the hot air dry cycle, though.)
Top rack, of course.
If this applied to coffee, I’d be a Luddite. There are always several coffee cups and water bottles right next to my monitor on the stand right above my keyboard. In the last many years, I’ve never once spilled on my gear.
And no, I can’t contibute to the OP. Obviously I have no experience in this area. I just wanted to submit that proximity (of drinks) and damage (from drinks) are not necessarily correlated.
Do this only as a last resort, but, yeah, it works sometimes.
No dish soap, though. Just water.
True story.
I’m always telling the kids at school about my rule.
They quickly appreciate the sticky sugar deposit that will remain after evaporation, and why you can’t simply wash it off.
I also point out that the swivel chair was invented for one purpose only: so the user can glide to the drink, swallow and then glide safely back to the keyboard.
Only one pupil has ever argued the point.
For his birthday, his parents bought him a laptop.
Yesterday he came in and asked how you deal with a sticky keyboard. I managed not to laugh, and our technician gave him advice.
But I can laugh now…
Phew. At least you have an e to work with, and The Mermaid fixed the space bar so no-more-reading-posts-from-her-like-this. Makes reading a lot easier on the eyes, though on occasion, my ? will turn into É.
And my soda is on the credenza, primarily since some posts will make me laugh and spew soda on the monitor.
NEVER EVER BRING A SOFT DRINK WITHIN 5 FEET OF A COMPUTER!
…and don’t read SDMB posts while drinking.
I fixed it. My E key functions again!
Now how should I fix a stuck spacebar that periodically kicks my next word all across the page?
Dao, what did you do to fix it?