Can sweat/ saliva cause short circuit?

Ragnarous

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Hi, I was wondering since we all get sweaty building/repairing our systems from stress, will it perhaps be the reason of a short circuit of a component?
For example, I was re-placing a bracket holding the SHIFT key that i accidentally pulled out when i was trying to pull the key out on my keyboard, and i grabbed that little bracket with my sweaty fingers, and then placed back into its socket!
I'm almost sure the sweat did come in contact with the pcb, however no damage was done in anyway so far (I have a razer blackwidow chroma!) This question goes out to all PCB's be it motherboard, GPU, RAM, Keyboards, HDD's!
 
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In and excessive amount it could cause a short (especially if the surface is still damp when used).
That being said, some sweaty hands wont kill anything (most likely). You would be more likely to damage something by constantly wiping them off and creating static.
In and excessive amount it could cause a short (especially if the surface is still damp when used).
That being said, some sweaty hands wont kill anything (most likely). You would be more likely to damage something by constantly wiping them off and creating static.
 
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I'll have fun when I'll have enough money to buy the component again if anything goes wrong! For now i'll be 10000% more stressful! :)