On 1/10/2014 3:14 AM, Mark Wendt wrote: > Yep. Water doesn't hurt most electronics (as long as no power is > applied). A lot of the folks mention they use deionized water too. As > long as it's completely dry by the time you fire it up, it should hurt. > Watch out for paper based caps though, they can be sensitive to the > moisture.
I've bathed several PCs and an entire Xbox 360 (except the hard drive) that had been owned by heavy smokers. They were FURRY inside from dust, pet hair and tobacco smoke residue. Warm water, soap and an old toothbrush. After rinsing a couple of hours in a food dehydrator set to 85F has the parts dry and ready to reassemble. The Xbox 360 needed a new laser and the tray drive belt boiled. Xbox was free, laser less than $8 on eBay, used Mad Catz controllers were around $20 and $8. Boiling the tray drive belts on optical drives can cure failure to open. Bring some water to a rolling boil, remove from heat then toss the belt in for a minute. Fish it out, dry it off and usually it will work to make the tray eject. The heat causes the rubber to shrink, increasing the tension on the pulleys. Another cause of this is some drives have small pads in parts of the mechanism which the laser and spindle tilt down on. The pads compress over time and allow the disc clamp to come too close to the magnet on the spindle motor shaft. Given the cheapass nature of the companies making these things, the eject system is just strong enough to break that magnetic attraction when a disc is in the drive. Left alone without a disc for a long time, those pads compress and the magnet's grip is too strong. The fix is easy, carefully peel the pads off and rotate 90 or 180 degrees so an un-mashed part is in use. The best optical drives have an all gear driven tray mechanism and do not use any squishable soft parts anywhere. They'll never have an eject failure. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
