gruntwerk said:Okay, so u are saying I can get rid of the dustbunnies in the dishwasher... and i can clean my keyboard & mouse in there too?
Will this work for my monitor???
just kidding...
tell him to try a few cds and floppy disks while hes at it...
Not with my dishwasher though... I hafta heat my soup with something...
ZeekeDaGeek said:I been working in the two-way radio industry for 30 years. Over those years, I have seen radios damaged by cabbies that spilled their cokes, coffee, and hot chocolate onto and into them.
We have taken the radios, opened them up, and RINSED them out with very hot water from the tap. This disolved the sugars from the liquids that were spilled. The radio was then dried out with compressed air, and a warm air gun. After this process, the radios required re-tuning and operated fine.
The notion that water or other liquids is a death sentance to electronic equipment is nonsense. If a device is exposed to a liquid spill and is IMMEDIATELY disconnected from it's power source and the offending agents removed properly, there are good odds that the device will continue to resume it's normal life.
If a MB was washed in a dishwasher w/o detergents, and dried out properly, there would not be any reason that the board wouldn't work again.
I will go on record to say that, if I ever spill a liquid into my computer, I will do the dishwasher trick. But I won't do it with a MB that isn't in need of repair. After all, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Thanks for reading
pizzanchy said:My computer repair teacher wants to clean a mobo in a dishwasher and wants some info.
pizzanchy said:so radios did work after you cleaned them ???? thats neato!
no offense people but how old are you ???lol
rasputinj
Nice to see another 2 way person. I spent 8 building 2 way systems. I have put liquid on to a circuit boards before. I think the problem you get into is the water getting into the layers of the motherboard itself. and the amount of water on the motherboard. I have used a solution over the circuitboar to protect the motherboard from water and have hosed off those kind of motherboards to get out the mice cr*p, when there are on mountain top radio sites in the middle of nowhere, but other than that I would not take a working motherboard and do it. But if it is dead I guess it can not hurt it, it will not help it though. [END QUOTE]
Hey "Radio-Man"! Glad to know I'm not alone in the universe.
I have also see the "donations" that rodents have left behind, and after some cleaning had good working equipment.
Silesia, I've lost count, too! But, I have also been able to get them back to life as well. This is the CRITICAL part, when the "unit" is removed from the "liquids", TAKE THE BATTERY OFF and don't put it back on until it's been cleaned out well.
I've seen 'em where the guy says,"Well, I turned it off". Sorry, that won't work, power still going into the phone. Open it up and the boards have "grass" (corrosion) growing inside.
Enough of my ravings, great day to all.