Spacebar stuck after battery replacement

Hi Dan, sorry just seeing this now. all letters above the space bar, the space bar itself, and the couple of letters around the space bar are very tight, when held face down. The space bar is also concave now (the middle is higher than the left and the right part of the bar). I start to wonder if the liquid that unglue the battery did not melt/damage the plastic that hold the keys of my macbook pro...

So you so the keys are gummy. You may have used too much solvent or you had a liquid spill which you hadn't noticed.

Try hoping off the key caps and use some 85% or better isopropyl alcohol on the cotton swabs (Q-Tips) and try cleaning the key parts. Start off with the letter keys first. Let us know how that goes.

Thanks you Dan.

So I took some of the keys off, and cleaned them as you suggested.

I think the issue remains the same: the solvent misshaped the actually plastic keys.

homemade solution: I let the space bar under a pile of heavy book, with a cotton bud in the middle to try and inverse the concave shape, and flatten a it as much as I could. It worked a little. My space bar is now more responsive and work in 80% of the time, but I can definitely feel that something happens.

So I don't know how to flag this, but maybe someone should put this in the instruction: don't use too much solvent and make sure it does not spill anywhere. It sounds stupid for pros, but for newbies like me, I think this is a very valid warning ;) (and I only used a quarter of the entire recipient...)

Thanks very much Dan for your help!!

@juliengatta - Good Point! I'll get something posted.