Wireless keyboard battery broken inside: how to remove?

The AA battery of my wireless aluminium keyboard (iMac) have broke inside, it may have melt of something, it is glued, it does not move out. Any tip, any product or tool to force-remove it? Or is my keyboard dead?

It doesn't surprise me at all that there is no reply to this. This problem is the result of a rare product design blunder by Apple - and they never admit to those, much less remedy them. The battery compartment on the wireless keyboard is horribly designed. Making it a little tube like that with no other access point basically kills a keyboard whenever a 50 cent alkaline battery fails and leaks - and that happens all the time. If you search online, you'll see this problem mentioned multiple times. People suggest using a little bit of water, a screwdriver, some baking soda, and other methods to get the battery free...you'll note that nobody suggests contacting Apple or an Apple Store, because neither of them will do a thing about it.

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The wireless keyboards battery cap has stuck. I have tried opening it with screwdrivers, coins and even spoon handles but nothing can open this.
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I have got a new iMAC machine 21.5" , almost 6 weeks since. I am a regular user. The machine has Mountain Lion OS 10.8.2.
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I trace these kind of stupidities for at least 30 years. While Microsoft can be forgiven as they started it all with a poorly conceived operating system foundation by a few teenegers and later it was impossible to go back to square one, the Apple on the other hand had all things available to them beautifully: the most advanced, architecturally, operating system foundation - Unix. And they failed too. They put an awkward GUI lipstick on that beautiful Unix operating system, with a lot, a LOT of bugs!?
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Edward,
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Getting Bluetooth set up initially in Bootcamp is a bit of a hit and miss affair in my experience, but persistence pays off, and connection is reliable. I gave up with the keyboard on my Mac Pro at one stage, tried again a few days later and it worked.
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