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Tuesday December 12, 2006
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Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel magazine is one of my favorite reads, and over the years they've offered quite a lot of helpful travel tips--ways to save money, of course, but also how to lighten your luggage load, and simple on-the-road fixes. But this one, from a faithful reader, takes the cake (or should I say rice):
Rice can salvage wet electronics. After I fell into a stream in Cambodia, my digital camera wouldn't work. Someone suggested leaving the camera in a bag of rice overnight to draw out any condensation. Sure enough, the next morning it was dry and working perfectly.
This is the stuff of MacGyver! I love it!
If anyone out there tries this out, please let us know!
Editor's Note :Please note: you should use uncooked rice, not cooked rice, as shown.
Gearlog is not responsible for any waterlogged or rice-y D-SLR's that may result from this.
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December 12, 2006 3:43 AM
I believe it meant NON-Cooked rice and NOT cooked rice as shown in the pix here. Cooke rice is too moist to do the trick.
Hope this helps.
December 12, 2006 2:22 PM
Did this with an iPod that went through the wash. It came back electrically, but the hard drive was too damaged. :-( Yes, it is uncooked rice that is needed.
December 12, 2006 3:45 PM
Yes, I should have specified uncooked rice. . . Using cooked rice would be bad. . .
December 27, 2006 7:28 PM
Wish I knew when a wave hit me and my cell. Thanks for da info!
Pepper
January 2, 2007 11:30 AM
A better idea is to vacuum bag the device. I've done this several times with succes. Wash it with deionized water, put it in a pillow case and spin off the excess. Then vacuum bag it with a food saver.
When i was in graduate school in the 70's "someone" dropped an HP calculator, big, big bucks back then, into 6 Normal HCL.
We took it apart, washed it with DI and stuck it into our freeze drier and pulled a hard vacuum. Thing worked great..
December 3, 2007 3:41 AM
An alternative to the vacuum bagging is to stick the camera/cellphone with the rice (bread works too) in the microwave, obviously not turning it on, overnight.