[Gllug] Mobiles in toilets & other places

[Chris Bell]

On Mon 26 Jan, Richard Jones wrote:
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> My old mobile ceased abruptly when I dropped it in a glass of wine,
> and no amount of hairdryer treatment has made it work again.
> 

   It might be OK if washed in clean water afterwards and then left for a
very long time to dry. The copper tracks may dissolve if it is powered
before it is totally dry.
   It may not work, I was asked to look at a Sony broadcast camera, 15:1
zoom lens, viewfinder, recorder back, and battery pack that were fished out
of a lake after a helicopter crash. I could even see things swimming around
inside the lens. They would have liked to recover the recording as well, but
the whole lot was a total write-off.
   Coke is one of the worst things to spill on mechanical devices like panel
switches, especially when it is approximately 2 square metres of control
panel, with an audience of several million watching live.

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Chris Bell

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