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Old May 11th 05, 04:14 PM
Tom Hughes
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Default 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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Old May 11th 05, 05:28 PM
Frank ess
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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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Old May 11th 05, 06:10 PM
Owamanga
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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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Old May 11th 05, 06:23 PM
Alan Browne
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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.


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Old May 11th 05, 06:30 PM
Ed Mullikin
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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.


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-- 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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Old May 11th 05, 07:20 PM
Will
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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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Old May 11th 05, 09:23 PM
Aaron Blacksmith
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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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Old May 11th 05, 09:32 PM
Owamanga
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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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Old May 11th 05, 11:52 PM
Ken Davey
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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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Old May 12th 05, 12:02 AM
Ken Davey
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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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