OT FYI

If you run a cell phone through the clothes washer in the pocket of a pair
of pants

it will

NOT

work better afterwards

( or at all )

"Larry L" wrote in message
...
If you run a cell phone through the clothes washer in the pocket of a pair
of pants

it will

NOT

work better afterwards

( or at all )

Maybe it's your detergent. Have you tried all new SCAM® with screen
whiteners, voice mail brighteners, automatic color correction, and text
contrast enhancers? I just LOVE the way it gets out all those stubborn
cookie crumbs between the keys!

Wolfgang
this is not a paid endorsement.

Larry L wrote:
If you run a cell phone through the clothes washer in the pocket of a pair
of pants

it will

NOT

work better afterwards

( or at all )



I ran an iPod Nano through the washer and it worked just fine after
drying out for a couple of weeks.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

"rw" wrote



I ran an iPod Nano through the washer and it worked just fine after drying
out for a couple of weeks.



I maintain a mostly pre-high-tech life style, but I recently saw a USB
turntable in Costco and bought it to record my old collection of jazz LPs
onto the computer. It came with iTunes software, which is way cool, and
I've loudly hinted to Santa that an iPod and speaker dock would be a very
nifty way to take music with me in my travel trailer.

When Santa found out about the cell phone's sad passing, (s)he mumbled
something about "iPods probably need to be sorted out before washing too."
This worried me because it made me think that Santa might feel I'm not quite
old enough for an iPod yet ( you'll put your eye out? )


I'll let the phone dry but the one that was in my pocket this summer when I
took a hat floating, wader filling, full-Reid still is lifeless months
later.

"Larry L" wrote in message
...
I maintain a mostly pre-high-tech life style, but I recently saw a USB
turntable in Costco and bought it to record my old collection of jazz LPs
onto the computer. It came with iTunes software, which is way cool, and
I've loudly hinted to Santa that an iPod and speaker dock would be a very
nifty way to take music with me in my travel trailer.

When Santa found out about the cell phone's sad passing, (s)he mumbled
something about "iPods probably need to be sorted out before washing too."
This worried me because it made me think that Santa might feel I'm not
quite old enough for an iPod yet ( you'll put your eye out? )


I'll let the phone dry but the one that was in my pocket this summer when
I took a hat floating, wader filling, full-Reid still is lifeless months
later.

For whatever reason cell phones don't do so well with a full dunking. We
have had two here at work take swims in the toilet. Both were power on at
the time of the swim, which probably had something to do with the
destruction. Powered off, they might have a chance of revival after thorough
drying?
Pagers on the other hand seem to do fine with a dunking, mine has been in
the lake at least twice and comes back fine after being completely dried
out.

One of my hats being the administrator of the cell phones, I told both
people who's phones had been in the toilet to go ahead and dispose of them
however they wanted. I didn't really care to handle them...

JT

On Dec 18, 8:48 am, rw wrote:
Larry L wrote:
If you run a cell phone through the clothes washer in the pocket of a pair
of pants

it will

NOT

work better afterwards

( or at all )

I ran an iPod Nano through the washer and it worked just fine after
drying out for a couple of weeks.

I ran my iPod shuffle through the washer and dryer last week.
The battery had completely discharged, but after recharging it
it's been working just fine.

One time I put a camera's compact flash card through the washer, but
remembered before the dryer. It survived just long enough for me to
pull
almost all the photos off, but was useless after that.

Flash drives are remarkably tough.
- Ken

Years ago now, we used to have problems with dirty keyboards. All
brown and nasty, largely from nicotine etc sometimes also with coffee
and other indefinable substances, not to mention the various solids
between the keys. I had one technician who did practically nothing
else but dismantle keyboards and clean them with special cleaning
fluids etc...

One day we got a backlog of keyboards in, about fifty or so as I
recall, and they were a priority issue in some departments. So I
thought I would try washing them. Using a couple of brushes, and some
soapy water, I simply scrubbed a couple of them, gave them a good
rinse with a shower head, and left them to dry for a while.

They looked as good as new afterwards, were much cleaner and more
hygienic than when cleaned using various plastic cleaners etc, and it
took a couple of minutes instead of several hours!

From that day on, we washed them all. We never had a single failure!

Since that time, I have owned a few keyboards myself. I prefer the
Microsoft curved ergonomic keyboards. I have a white one of these
which I bought when they first came out. I have washed it about a
dozen times to date, with no ill effects. It always looks and works
like new when it dries.

I can´t say if this will work with any other brands, (the original
keyboards I first washed were a different brand, I forget which). But
if you do have a filthy or stuck keyboard, this is worth a try before
you dispose of it and buy a new one. Let it dry for at least three
days in a warm dry place.

Probably best not to try this on a laptop of course!

TL
MC

"Mike" wrote in message
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Since that time, I have owned a few keyboards myself. I prefer the
Microsoft curved ergonomic keyboards. I have a white one of these
which I bought when they first came out. I have washed it about a
dozen times to date, with no ill effects. It always looks and works
like new when it dries.

I work for the company that manufactured your Microsoft Natural keyboard.
Before we became an EMS company, our service department had 4 dishwahsers
running full time washing keyboards.

JT

"JT" wrote in message
...

"Mike" wrote in message
...

Since that time, I have owned a few keyboards myself. I prefer the
Microsoft curved ergonomic keyboards. I have a white one of these
which I bought when they first came out. I have washed it about a
dozen times to date, with no ill effects. It always looks and works
like new when it dries.

I work for the company that manufactured your Microsoft Natural keyboard.
Before we became an EMS company, our service department had 4 dishwahsers
running full time washing keyboards.

JT

Did you use distilled water? deionized? softened? straight from the tap?

The dissolved mineral content in tap water is high enough in many places
that substantial deposits are left on drying. I know virtually nothing
about how keyboards are constructed, but I suspect there is a good chance
that a "printed" circuit board or some other structure with very closely
spaced electronic components is somewhere in there.

Wolfgang

On Dec 18, 11:27 am, "Larry L" wrote:
If you run a cell phone through the clothes washer in the pocket of a pair
of pants it will NOT work better afterwards ( or at all )

However, I can attest that if your offspring leaves his $300 iPod in
his pants through a similar cycle; at least functional resurrection
may be possible.

Joe F.