[jyl]

My theory about all things electronic is that if (1) no voltage is applied while wet, (2) allowed to thoroughly dry, and (3) no crappy cardboard internals like some 80's era cheap clock radio, they can usually survive getting wet.

I've had a laptop submerged in muddy water, pulled the battery, removed all the ports and screw-on panels, water poured out, set it under a fan for 48 hours and good as new.

Have saved a couple of cellphones the same way. Although, putting my Blackberry in the oven on "warm" turned out to be a bad idea.

A friend's $900 Sony DSLR was soaked in water and completely dead, she was distraught, I told her "don't worry", removed lens, battery, memory card, dried it out for 24 hours, and also no problem.

Those were all accidental soakings, I finally did it intentionally. The two keyboards for the iMac were unspeakably filthy (kids and their dirty fingers) with sticking keys. One is rather hard to replace here in US, is a French AZERTY keyboard, and anyway a new Apple keyboard is more than $20. So I unplugged, submerged in a sinkful of warm soapy water, scrubbed clean with a kitchen brush, then dried them out for 48 hours. Work like a charm.

Anyone else clean their electronics in the bathtub?