---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Sarah, Fortunately, I had my cover on the handheld, so not a whole lot of water was able to get into it. I took the battery out, removed everything I could, and left it in the hot car while I tuned two pianos, and guess what? By the last piano of the day, it was working again, everything reloaded via SD card (In less than a minute, I might add). Just had to reset the system clock, and I was ready to go! I spilled some wine in a laptop once, too. I got the same advice you just gave. It worked. CYA...Back it up! Dave Stahl In a message dated 5/20/05 4:22:46 PM Pacific Daylight Time, sarah@graphic-fusion.com writes: PS I even resurrected a laptop computer that had a glass of wine spilled into it (the computer I'm using now). However, if anything liquid gets into a hard drive (which fortunately it didn't), the hard drive would need to be replaced.... unless..... to rescue your data, at least... (1) Put the hard drive into a container of distilled water. (2) Slowly pull a partial vacuum on the hard drive to draw out the air inside, and sloooowly release the vacuum. (The water will flow into the hard drive through the filtered vent hole.) (3) Shake water around inside the hard drive. (4) Remove from the water and slooooowly pull a vacuum again, which will cause the water to come back out. (5) Repeat a few times (6) Vacuum out the water, and draw a hard, prolonged vacuum to completely evacuate all remaining water. (7) Pray to the computer gods. (8) Reinstall and power up. (9) Pull your data off of the hard drive and load it onto a replacement. Why? The internal debris would have been scattered from the filter, so the hard drive's life expectancy might not be so good. (10) Send me an email to tell me if it worked. :-) Peace, Sarah ----- Original Message ----- From: _Sarah Fox_ (mailto:sarah@graphic-fusion.com) To: _Pianotech_ (mailto:pianotech@ptg.org) Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 7:02 PM Subject: Re: When your day goes in the toilet Hi James, For your Nokia and anybody else's near-flush experience, take heart that most electronic devices CAN be brought back to life if you do it the right way: (1) Remove batteries. (2) Submerse in a container of distilled water. (3) Open the case to expose the insides. (4) Flush with a couple more fresh rinses of distilled water. (5) Blow out the excess water and let dry (*thoroughly*). (6) Reassemble and power up. (Why is distilled water different from tap water? It doesn't have any salts in it and therefore doesn't conduct electricity.) I had done this several times throughout the years and then ran into some guy who was an electronics technician for the Navy. He had used the exact same method on a daily basis (and with great success) on equipment that got dunked in seawater. ;-) Peace, Sarah ----- Original Message ----- From: _James Grebe_ (mailto:pianoman@accessus.net) To: _Pianotech_ (mailto:pianotech@ptg.org) Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 7:34 AM Subject: Re: When your day goes in the toilet Maybe your pocket PC came back, but cell phones do not after being dunked in the toilet. I had that experience and when the battery gets wet if has a dye that shows it has been wet on the battery and it is NOT covered under warranty and the cell phone was unfixable. I had to go back to my old cell phone because the new one, though only 1 month old it had to be replaced and they could not fix it. I did not have replacement insurance. I used to have a Motorola pager and it went through the washing machine but after 1 day of drying out it did come back. Praise be to Motorola and not Nokia. Jim James Grebe Piano-Forte Tuning & Repair Creator of Handsome Hardwood Caster Cups, piano benches, writing instruments (314) 608-4137 _WWW.JamesGrebe.com_ (http://www.jamesgrebe.com/) 1526 Raspberry Lane Arnold, MO 63010 BECOME WHAT YOU BELIEVE! _pianoman@accessus.net_ (mailto:pianoman@accessus.net) ----- Original Message ----- From: _Piannaman@aol.com_ (mailto:Piannaman@aol.com) To: _pianotech@ptg.org_ (mailto:pianotech@ptg.org) Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 11:32 PM Subject: When your day goes in the toilet >From the files of "Embarassing but True." If you can't laugh at yourself, who CAN you laugh at? So I finish tuning this lady's piano, and the diuretic effects of the morning's coffee kick in. "M'am, may I use your facilities?" "Yes, no problem." She shows me to the door. I'm wearing my shop apron. Don't know why, probably because of the convenient pocket space it affords me to put things like my pocket PC in(foreshadowing here...) Business done, apron back in place--without my IPAQ, which has fallen into the (fortunately freshly flushed) toilet. Flushed for most of the day were appointments, Tunelab, contacts, and map functions. Things to be thankful for: My wonderful wife, who offered me personalized GPS service via my cell phone from her job at the university. I tune mostly by ear, anyway. (4 of the five jobs consisted of lowering the pitch on new pianos, 2 by over 20 cents each). Since my day was so busy, I'd made out all of today's invoices in advance, so at least I had everyone's address handy. SD cards, which saved EVERYTHING today. Water dries out. Computers can come back from a dunking. It's been a long day. Time for a glass o' vino. Dave Stahl ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/99/85/e4/a1/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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