<html> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple id="role_body" = bottomMargin=7 leftmargin=7 topmargin=7 rightMargin=7> <div class=Section1> Dave, You = were very lucky, indeed.  The day after I got my Dell Axim (about two years = ago...) I was standing up and using it and it slipped out of my hands into the = dog’s water dish!  It was dead.  But, luckily I had bought extra = insurance when I bought it and they replaced it, no questions asked, and I had a = new one delivered in 24 hours.  Dell’s extended warranty service is the = best.    jeannie   <div> Jeannie Grassi, RPT Assistant Editor, Piano Technicians Journal <a = href="mailto:jcgrassi@earthlink.net">mailto:jcgrassi@earthlink.net</a>= </div>   <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center = style='margin-left:.5in;text-align:center'> <hr size=3 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> </div> From:</spa= n> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Piannaman@aol.com Sent: Friday, May 20, = 2005 10:55 PM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Re: WAIT! NO! - = RE: When your day goes in the toilet </div>   <div> <div> In a message dated 5/20/05 10:49:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time, ivories.52@earthlink.net writes: </div> <blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid blue = 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 3.0pt; margin-left:3.0pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'> When you get an electronic device wet, for whatever reason, and it was turned = on at the time, you will be lucky if it lives at all. Almost all liquids hold dissolved solids likes salts and minerals and a whole bunch of other = stuff that is usually conductive. A wet device usually dies when power is applied = to components that have contacts shorted out with these dissolved = conductive solids. What happens is the contacts short out and delicate components = go "paff", kablooie. If this were to happen to your TV you = would get sparks, smoke and possibly fire. On a cell phone, a PDA or = a laptop it's just quietly dead. </blockquote> </div> <div> Geoff,<= /font> </div> <div>  <= /font> </div> <div> Luckily my PDA was off.  I wasn't certain at the time it happened, = though.  I envisioned millions of tiny short circuits causing electronic brain death.  I was ready to buy another one, actually, and I was = quite surprised when it worked again.  It's completely back to = normal. </div> <div>  <= /font> </div> <div> Thanks for the info, </div> <div>  <= /font> </div> <div> Dave S. </div> </div> </body> </html>