Pentax k-1 Backscreen Issue

First thing I would have tried would be drying it out as a couple of posts above suggest, you could always try sealing it in a bag with some dried rice or the crystals used in moisture traps (make sure the latter doesn't actually come in contact with the camera)

I would also be very interested to hear JPS explain why they wanted to keep the camera, sounds rather suspicious to me.

There is a gentleman in one of the K1 Facebook groups who dropped his camera on concrete and damaged the shell quite badly. He was quoted 550USD for replacing the whole of outer shell. Now, I imagine, it's impossible to replace without dismantling the screen. All this talk from the Pentax rep doesn't make much sense.

Sounds suss they want to keep the camera & give you nothing. But also make me laugh when people damage items ie drop them or such & thing it be covered by warranty , like saying I have a 2 month old car hit a pole & now I want Ford or such to fix / replace the car because of my fault

The key is with the colon : This means that the words before the colon are a section heading, ie what comes next is about the dust and water protection aspects of this camera. What comes after the colon is the actual information and detail that applies.

A more grammatically perfect version would have ' Dust and water protection' before the colon, but we're used to seeing obviously translated English from Japanese text in manuals and marketing material.

Coming back to the initial question:

Pentax always highlight the camera as being 'Dustproof' and 'weather-resistant' on their websites. But it seems that the 87 sealing points are merely marketing jargon, if all the camera can handle is a little spray from a rain shower. Even my old 5D MKII can take that.

As I understand it, the camera was not used underwater, but dipped for a moment, which is definitely different from how one would use a waterproof camera and would be similar to a rainshower in how it got wet. So how do these sealing points make the K-1 different from any other camera on the market that doesn't sell itself as weather resistant?

And then there are those specifications:

This sounds like they are trying to protect themselves against any warranty claims while letting bloggers and youtubers sell their product for them by submerging the camera in mud, water and sand and showing off how they still work afterwards.

I would be curious to hear the answer from Pentax as to why the rear screen can't be replaced if the camera still functions. Surely one of those 87 sealings would mean the screen can be replaced?