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As others already wrote, definitely first you need to clean up everything.
Please, don't switch it up before cleaning and checking everything up.
And just one more thing, you wrote that drink spilled only over keys, so be sure that you clean all mechanical parts under the keys... because if drink had a lot of sugar, sugar is sticky and would gather a lot of dirt over the time and the keys could get stuck.
Be careful and good luck with cleaning.
P.S. Hope that girl at least repaid well for her little carelessness...
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+1 to all of the above. Cleaning will be crucial. The serious long-term concern is ACID content of drink. This is what will eat through delicate copper traces of a circuit board over time, converting your beloved Nord into an expensive red boat anchor.
Complete disassembly will be necessary to get to the point of the rubber contact strips accurately shown in an earlier post in this thread. It will be best if the person who performs this disassembly has some experience in these matters. You don't wish to make your minor problem a major one.
Bless,
Pablo
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Hi everybody,
thank you very much for all your comments.
I have downloaded the tutorial to open the Nord, take off the red top with buttons and unplug the 2 connectors to separate from the bottom.
Absolutely no trace of liquid on the inside. Seems that was only a very small amount of drink only over the white keys.
We were lucky I guess...
But we make profit to clean the keep and blow compressed air.
I wasn't brave enough to get the keys out one by one to arrive at the rubbers, take them off and clean the contacts.
For sure later and with more dedicated time I'll do that also.
Thanks again for all your precious answers and comments!
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I remember when I learned another important lesson. "I wonder what will happen if I swap those tubes over" (in my hammond PR40 cab) cue smoke cloud. (I learned that swapping the input tubes with a load I had on the leslie gave me a completely different result every time). The PR40 tubes looked the same, but were not the same (no markings)
The good thing about old kit is that you can generally throw water over it and it'll be fine!
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