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Wash & Dry CF Card trick.
Yes you really can run a CF memory card (san-disk 1gb) thru a wash cycle and
a dry cycle. And believe it or not it still functions. Came home last night from work (1 hour photo tech) after making some digital prints of my own, and had left the card in it's plastic case in my pants pocket. Wife was complaining this morning about something banging around in the dryer. So..............went to look and lo and behold it was the CF Card. With much trepidation, I put it into the camera and surprise, surprise, all of the images were still available and even took a couple of test shots and that also worked. I know that Pop Photo had a recent article about similar tests, but little did I know that I would have a real life situation to verify there findings. Moral of story....................check pants pocket's before throwing in the wash machine.................:-)) Tom in Tomball, TX |
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Tom Hughes wrote:
Yes you really can run a CF memory card (san-disk 1gb) thru a wash cycle and a dry cycle. And believe it or not it still functions. Came home last night from work (1 hour photo tech) after making some digital prints of my own, and had left the card in it's plastic case in my pants pocket. Wife was complaining this morning about something banging around in the dryer. So..............went to look and lo and behold it was the CF Card. With much trepidation, I put it into the camera and surprise, surprise, all of the images were still available and even took a couple of test shots and that also worked. I know that Pop Photo had a recent article about similar tests, but little did I know that I would have a real life situation to verify there findings. Moral of story....................check pants pocket's before throwing in the wash machine.................:-)) I have cleaned a Genie garage-door opener remote in similar circumstances and with similar results. -- Frank ess |
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On Wed, 11 May 2005 09:28:58 -0700, "Frank ess"
wrote: Tom Hughes wrote: Yes you really can run a CF memory card (san-disk 1gb) thru a wash cycle and a dry cycle. And believe it or not it still functions. Came home last night from work (1 hour photo tech) after making some digital prints of my own, and had left the card in it's plastic case in my pants pocket. Wife was complaining this morning about something banging around in the dryer. So..............went to look and lo and behold it was the CF Card. With much trepidation, I put it into the camera and surprise, surprise, all of the images were still available and even took a couple of test shots and that also worked. I know that Pop Photo had a recent article about similar tests, but little did I know that I would have a real life situation to verify there findings. Moral of story....................check pants pocket's before throwing in the wash machine.................:-)) I have cleaned a Genie garage-door opener remote in similar circumstances and with similar results. Before anyone tries, it doesn't work with cats. -- Owamanga! http://www.pbase.com/owamanga |
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Tom Hughes wrote:
Came home last night from work (1 hour photo tech) after making some digital prints of my own, and had left the card in it's plastic case in my pants pocket. Wife was complaining this morning about something banging around in the dryer. So..............went to look and lo and behold it was the CF Card. With much trepidation, I put it into the camera and surprise, surprise, all of the images were still available and even took a couple of test shots and that also worked. When I was teenager I had a cheap Timex mechanical watch. I don't like having watches on my wrist and in those days I would attach the watch to my pants, on a belt loop. Innevitably, the day came. I forgot to remove it. I found the watch in the dryer. The back had come off (in the dryer I would guess) and a plastic part had come out. The watch was still ticking. I put the plastic part back in ( a spacer ) and put the back on. Corrected the time ... and the watch still served me for many years thereafter. As to your CF card, they are reasonably well sealed and the trip through the dryer would have driven out most humidity if any got in. Usually, uncoated electronics will fail a month or so after immersion due to corrosion, but the electronics in there are most likely coated. We've driven belly mounted, engineering (non-sealed, non coated parts) Doppler navigation radar into the Gulf of Mexico (eg, submerged the radar) hanging under a MH-47 at some number of knots. This occured during special ops training and they could care less that we were piggybacking a nav system test. The radar quit. Our tech, smart fellow that he is, disaasembled the radar at the hotel and rinsed it completely in fresh water several times. Blew it dry with the bathroom hairdryer and was flying again on the -47 the following night. About a year ago, a fellow posted about his Maxxum 7 (film) camera getting totally soaked in a stream on a mountain side. After a careful disassembly and drying, the camera and lens still worked months later. (This was in one of the Minolta yahoo groups). Cheers, Alan. -- -- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch. |
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Many years ago I submerged my Pentax film camera in a river. I took it to a
lab having a small vacuum chamber and pulled a vacuum on it. It dried it out perfectly. Had to clean some deposits off the lens. "Alan Browne" wrote in message ... Tom Hughes wrote: Came home last night from work (1 hour photo tech) after making some digital prints of my own, and had left the card in it's plastic case in my pants pocket. Wife was complaining this morning about something banging around in the dryer. So..............went to look and lo and behold it was the CF Card. With much trepidation, I put it into the camera and surprise, surprise, all of the images were still available and even took a couple of test shots and that also worked. When I was teenager I had a cheap Timex mechanical watch. I don't like having watches on my wrist and in those days I would attach the watch to my pants, on a belt loop. Innevitably, the day came. I forgot to remove it. I found the watch in the dryer. The back had come off (in the dryer I would guess) and a plastic part had come out. The watch was still ticking. I put the plastic part back in ( a spacer ) and put the back on. Corrected the time ... and the watch still served me for many years thereafter. As to your CF card, they are reasonably well sealed and the trip through the dryer would have driven out most humidity if any got in. Usually, uncoated electronics will fail a month or so after immersion due to corrosion, but the electronics in there are most likely coated. We've driven belly mounted, engineering (non-sealed, non coated parts) Doppler navigation radar into the Gulf of Mexico (eg, submerged the radar) hanging under a MH-47 at some number of knots. This occured during special ops training and they could care less that we were piggybacking a nav system test. The radar quit. Our tech, smart fellow that he is, disaasembled the radar at the hotel and rinsed it completely in fresh water several times. Blew it dry with the bathroom hairdryer and was flying again on the -47 the following night. About a year ago, a fellow posted about his Maxxum 7 (film) camera getting totally soaked in a stream on a mountain side. After a careful disassembly and drying, the camera and lens still worked months later. (This was in one of the Minolta yahoo groups). Cheers, Alan. -- -- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch. |
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The colours may start to run though!!
"Tom Hughes" wrote in message ... Yes you really can run a CF memory card (san-disk 1gb) thru a wash cycle and a dry cycle. And believe it or not it still functions. Came home last night from work (1 hour photo tech) after making some digital prints of my own, and had left the card in it's plastic case in my pants pocket. Wife was complaining this morning about something banging around in the dryer. So..............went to look and lo and behold it was the CF Card. With much trepidation, I put it into the camera and surprise, surprise, all of the images were still available and even took a couple of test shots and that also worked. I know that Pop Photo had a recent article about similar tests, but little did I know that I would have a real life situation to verify there findings. Moral of story....................check pants pocket's before throwing in the wash machine.................:-)) Tom in Tomball, TX |
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"Owamanga" wrote in message ... On Wed, 11 May 2005 09:28:58 -0700, "Frank ess" wrote: Tom Hughes wrote: Yes you really can run a CF memory card (san-disk 1gb) thru a wash cycle and a dry cycle. And believe it or not it still functions. Came home last night from work (1 hour photo tech) after making some digital prints of my own, and had left the card in it's plastic case in my pants pocket. Wife was complaining this morning about something banging around in the dryer. So..............went to look and lo and behold it was the CF Card. With much trepidation, I put it into the camera and surprise, surprise, all of the images were still available and even took a couple of test shots and that also worked. I know that Pop Photo had a recent article about similar tests, but little did I know that I would have a real life situation to verify there findings. Moral of story....................check pants pocket's before throwing in the wash machine.................:-)) I have cleaned a Genie garage-door opener remote in similar circumstances and with similar results. Before anyone tries, it doesn't work with cats. -- Owamanga! http://www.pbase.com/owamanga Really? My experience is that they take it quite well, but they have a problem with the dryer. |
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On Wed, 11 May 2005 20:23:20 GMT, "Aaron Blacksmith"
wrote: "Owamanga" wrote in message .. . Before anyone tries, it doesn't work with cats. Really? My experience is that they take it quite well, but they have a problem with the dryer. When you require a machine to make a pussy damp, you're getting to old.... ;-) -- Owamanga! http://www.pbase.com/owamanga |
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Owamanga wrote:
On Wed, 11 May 2005 20:23:20 GMT, "Aaron Blacksmith" wrote: "Owamanga" wrote in message ... Before anyone tries, it doesn't work with cats. Really? My experience is that they take it quite well, but they have a problem with the dryer. When you require a machine to make a pussy damp, you're getting to old.... ;-) How about an 'EXTREME HUMOUR" warning. you owe me a keyboard (sprayed with Sprite and moonshine). Ken. |
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Will wrote:
The colours may start to run though!! "Tom Hughes" wrote in message ... Yes you really can run a CF memory card (san-disk 1gb) thru a wash cycle and a dry cycle. And believe it or not it still functions. Came home last night from work (1 hour photo tech) after making some digital prints of my own, and had left the card in it's plastic case in my pants pocket. Wife was complaining this morning about something banging around in the dryer. So..............went to look and lo and behold it was the CF Card. With much trepidation, I put it into the camera and surprise, surprise, all of the images were still available and even took a couple of test shots and that also worked. I know that Pop Photo had a recent article about similar tests, but little did I know that I would have a real life situation to verify there findings. Moral of story....................check pants pocket's before throwing in the wash machine.................:-)) Tom in Tomball, TX Seem to me that someone did some 'extreme tests to destruction' of CF cards a while ago. If I remember correctly the "nail to a tree" test managed to render a card useless but even after that some data was still recoverable! The 'washing machine test' failed to damage either the card or the data. If anyone recalls that please post a link - a google search came up blank. Ken. |
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