cure equiepement that was in the rain... best practices???

From: Sridhar the POWERful <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Mon Apr 15 02:55:12 2002

On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Enrico Badella wrote:

> Last week I managed to get my hands on 2 vaxstations 4000/60, a Cisco
> MGS, a HP Apollo 700 workstation, Sun Sparcstation 20 (WOW), a VAX 4000-300
> and a Panasonic 7330. All have varying degree of dampness 8-((. At the
> moment I have them in house dry and warm... should I stuff them in the oven
> at low temperature and force a drying or best let them settle for some time.

I would carefully rinse them off, taking care not to soak anything that
would be damaged by water. Then I would pat dry with a paper towel and
let dry. I wouldn't stick anything electronic in the oven.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Mon Apr 15 2002 - 02:55:12 BST