On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:20:30 +0100, eastender wrote:

On 2012-08-09 20:58:57 +0100, Lieutenant Scott said:

So as a last resort I tried the bake in the oven method to reflow the solder.
9 minutes at 196C as advised.

Talking of kitchen appliances, I tried cleaning a keyboard that had
not-working keys by giving it a good going over in the dishwasher. I
got a spakling clean keyboard but it still didn't work.

A drunk apparently once fixed a motherboard they'd spilt beer on by washing it in the bath. The board functioned fine.

I spilt water on mine once (leaky watercooler). I simply dried it out and it still worked.

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