Anyone know anything about recharging silica gels/desiccants?
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On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Bong Manayon bongmana...@gmail.com wrote:
Anyone know anything about recharging silica gels/desiccants?
i have friends who periodically micro-wave it... :)
i just keep them out in the sun all day once in a while. don't know
whether that answers your question. :)
2010/1/18 Bong Manayon bongmana...@gmail.com:
Anyone know anything about recharging silica gels/desiccants?
As far as I know the vast majority can just be put into the oven at
80°C, bake till dry
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Example of those who can't:
http://www.drierite.com/default.cfm?gclid=CPjWnMvrrZ8CFc0SzAod_juP0Q
Also: (Google is my friend)
http://www.ashirwadchemicals.net/faq-s.htm
Hence, it is actually 100-120°C for silica gels
Sounds like an insane waste of energy... nuking is probably the better
idea if
I've never done this, but I've been told that if you place them on a pan
and heat them in an oven at no more than 200° F they will be as good as new.
On 1/18/2010 5:36 AM, Bong Manayon wrote:
Anyone know anything about recharging silica gels/desiccants?
Bong
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From: Bong Manayon
Anyone know anything about recharging silica gels/desiccants?
Put 'em on a cookie sheet in the oven at low heat for a couple of hours;
about 95 deg C or 200 deg F seems to work.
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On 18/1/10, John Sessoms, discombobulated, unleashed:
Put 'em on a cookie sheet in the oven at low heat for a couple of hours;
about 95 deg C or 200 deg F seems to work.
heh heh heh
http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2008/06/cookiemonster_450x300.jpg
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Put 'em on a cookie sheet in the oven at low heat for a
couple of hours; about 95 deg C or 200 deg F seems to work.
Has this leaked over from the squirrel thread?
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On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Subash pdml.l...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Bong Manayon bongmana...@gmail.com wrote:
Anyone know anything about recharging silica gels/desiccants?
i have friends who periodically micro-wave it... :)
i just keep them out in the sun all
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 1:23 AM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote:
From: Bong Manayon
Anyone know anything about recharging silica gels/desiccants?
Put 'em on a cookie sheet in the oven at low heat for a couple of hours;
about 95 deg C or 200 deg F seems to work.
You've done this?
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:38:32 +0800
Bong Manayon bongmana...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Subash pdml.l...@gmail.com wrote:
i have friends who periodically micro-wave it... :)
Yeah, I do the sunshine thing too, but this is the first time I heard
about microwaving them (I
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Subash pdml.l...@gmail.com wrote:
Bong, actually i happened to ask the guy a while back how he went
about it and i still have his reply. quoting verbatim (and i have never
done this myself):
quote
from a chemist I bought half a kilo of silica gel. I keep
From: Bong Manayon
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 1:23 AM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote:
From: Bong Manayon
Anyone know anything about recharging silica gels/desiccants?
Put 'em on a cookie sheet in the oven at low heat for a couple of hours;
about 95 deg C or 200 deg F seems to
On Jan 19, 2010, at 4:35 PM, Subash wrote:
This has to be done because once
the gel absorbs the moisture in the box, it doesn't work anymore.
Not long after I started an internal tech-support job at an electronics
manufacturer we had to deal with an issue where the units we shipped would sit
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