Acetone - usable solvent for switches?

[Baneat]

I spilled a can of red bull in my green ALPS keyboard, pure water doesn't dissolve the gunk in the switches that make them non-functional. Can acetone be used for this or is it too aggressive to use on electronics? Pure alcohol is very difficult to come by, typically they'll pollute it deliberately for legal reasons. I have pure acetone though, so if that would work then hooray!

[eyesnine]

99%+ purity Isopropyl alcohol is fairly easy to find, and is used to clean electronics.

Acetone is used as a plastics solvent (wikipedia), so it's probably not a good idea to pour it on a keyboard.

[Magna224]

A cat spilled a smoothie on my 1087XM and I used rubbing alcohol and cue tips to clean it.

[rknize]

Actually, that was a very helpful answer, ripster. :tongue:

To answer your question directly, acetone will happily dissolve ABS.  Probably not what you want.

[1391401]

Alcohol is polluted a la "denatured" for the purposes of preventing consumption but I have certainly used a rubbing alcohol (Isopropyl) for purposes of cleansing surfaces of a multitude of contaminants sugar inclusive