Well, back the days of electronic repair shops when we still had an ozone layer, we actually had "freeze spray" chocked full of chloro-flourocarbons. They used to have some really good de-greasers and cleaners too.
Compressed air worked in pinch, just don't let frost build up on the chip or board. From: James Kerr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 10:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: "Freezer Trick" works on "dead" flash/thumb drives You mean like turning a can of compressed air upside down and spraying the board? ----- Original Message ----- From: Maglinger, Paul <mailto:[email protected]> To: NT System Admin Issues <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 9:15 AM Subject: RE: "Freezer Trick" works on "dead" flash/thumb drives Electronics commonly have thermal problems. There's been many a time I've troubleshot motherboards with a can of freeze spray. From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 3:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: "Freezer Trick" works on "dead" flash/thumb drives It was great. I left it in the freezer the whole time (with the extention running out between the gasket. The colder it got, the longer between "failures" I had. With out the cold, the drive immeadiately fails. I owe whomever figured out the freezer trick big time... -- ME2 On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 1:14 AM, James Hill <[email protected]> wrote: Never heard of that one! I rescued the data off an IBM "Deathstar" thanks to multiple visits to the freezer. I like the ingenuity of the extention cords J From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, 7 September 2010 3:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: FYI: "Freezer Trick" works on "dead" flash/thumb drives I'd never heard of anyone doing it before, but it just let me get the data off of mine (albeit in many ~10 second incriments). Viva la flexible ice packs... Viva la USB extentions cords... Viva la robocopy... That is all. -- ME2 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
