I'll be smiling for the rest of the week!
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The Gadget Show did an article on this some months ago and the results were staggering; lots of things still work despite the abuse they get.
The general rule of thunk is to strip them down as much as possible and allow them to dry naturally, put them back together and most things will work.
The general rule of thunk is to strip them down as much as possible and allow them to dry naturally, put them back together and most things will work.
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A Star Wars POG although that was still usable the washing machine wasn't until an engineer had come round to fix it by removing the POG! 
A hamster, well not the wash, but a tumble drier!
It escaped from its cage and managed to chew itself into the drier, my mum put a load in to dry and turned it on. 10 mins later she luckily found a wet sick and went to throw that in to find something moving inside
It escaped from its cage and managed to chew itself into the drier, my mum put a load in to dry and turned it on. 10 mins later she luckily found a wet sick and went to throw that in to find something moving inside
my HTC Himalayan survived a coffee spill. Trouble is it smelt of coffee. Can't recall if it worked come the following morning. Irrelevant really 'cause I had good insurance and it was replaced the next day.
Non-liquid related would probably have to be my Winchester. It arrived with bent pins, still worked. Lived out of the pc for a long time knocking around the bottom of an old hardware box, pins even more bent. Still worked and went for £35 at auction. A little trooper it was.
Non-liquid related would probably have to be my Winchester. It arrived with bent pins, still worked. Lived out of the pc for a long time knocking around the bottom of an old hardware box, pins even more bent. Still worked and went for £35 at auction. A little trooper it was.
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My brother worked for a mobile phone company for a while and handled endless replacements for people who had dropped their phones into the toilet. Aparently this is because most folks put them in their back pockets and don't take them out when they drop their trousers. I guess it's not the water that causes the problem in fishing it out!
Phnom_Penh said:lol, why the hell did you have it in your pocket in the first place, and how did you forget about it (surely you would have noticed when you went to use your compuer)?
came back from a lan, didnt have room in my bag so i put it in my pocket and forgot about it.
Ive hard wired an mx1000 into my case so i always have a mouse handy
and also this was my old blue copperhead that i replaced with a red one after it started to die and live randomly (started before it got soaked though)
i dropped my k750i in a jug of ale and after a new battery it worked . hurrah. the battery went dead spongy and soggy
quite a funny story...
i went to turkey on holiday and had my phone in my swimming trunks' pocket... went down the flume and all i heard was a donking noise.. :O
dried it underr the hairdryer and left it in the sun for two days and it worked..
then the next day it got nicked
i went to turkey on holiday and had my phone in my swimming trunks' pocket... went down the flume and all i heard was a donking noise.. :O
dried it underr the hairdryer and left it in the sun for two days and it worked..
then the next day it got nicked