Friend spilled Drink on Macbook Pro... Keyboard sticky...

One of my friends spilled a drink on my macbook pro and half of my keyboard is sticky (under the keys) and i was wonding if there was a way to clean that safely.

Hi
That *****, but there is a sollution. What you need to do is the following....
Remove the top cover of the notebook and remove the keyboard...
Then, wash the keyboard with water only, making sure everything is clean and not sticky anymore.
Then the most important part is to let it dry properly, you can use a heardryer on a low heat. Just make sure its perfectly dry. Should be like new after you put everything back together.
We fixed a notebook that got some juice spilled on it like this. They wanted to replace everything, but we fixed it 100% with only time, effort and water....
ps, we even fixed the sticky cd-rom and removed all other juice with water aswell.
Most essential part is to make sure everything is dry!!!

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