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Date:         Sun, 21 Jul 2013 13:07:35 -0500
Reply-To:     mcneely4@COX.NET
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From:         Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject:      Re: LVC Friday: Camp Fire Heat Damage Cell Phone?
Comments: To: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <35gY1m03p08X5Fr015ga1L>
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How relevant is this to the discussion? Being the person that I am, I waded off into a creek to fish, electronic ignition key in my pocket, unprotected. I usually put it in a gasketed plastic immersion bag, and suspend that from my shoulder, when in the creek. This time it was in my pants' pocket.

I didn't realize what I had done until five hours later when I walked up to the car to unlock the doors. I said to my friend, "Well, I royally <messed> up. He demurred, suggesting that Toyota builds good stuff.

Well, I walked up to the car, reached for the door, and the clunk and the chime indicating that it unlocked sounded. When I attempted to start the car, it started right up, no problem.

When I got home, I opened the fob, to find not a drop of water inside.

---- Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > "Getting power off instantly is key, though. Modern circuit boards may > have extremely fine circuitry with no copper to spare to electrolysis." > > Yes, true dat. > > -- > Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott > 1984 Westfalia, auto trans, > Bend, Ore. > > On 07/21/2013 09:43 AM, David Beierl wrote: > > At 12:24 PM 7/21/2013, Rocket J Squirrel wrote: > >> Most electronic components can tolerate washing with distilled water and > >> then full drying but some parts, notably electromechanical parts like > >

-- David McNeely


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