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Offline Retro_71

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Re: Sad Tidings
« on: April 07, 2008, 05:24:30 AM »
In regards to the Amiga's if they did not have batteries on them there is a good chance they are ok as long as you dry them very well... ie oven at lowest temperature for 1 hr or so (keep your eye on them) or air dry for a week or so.
Just don't throw anything out yet until you can check (after everything dries)

Anyway I am sorry to hear of your loss.
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Re: Sad Tidings
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2008, 07:48:26 AM »
Get rid of the batteries as they could be already bad and then try to dry them(the boards and cards).

I heard once that someone put a A500 in a barrel full of water and then took it out dried it and all was ok (long ago)

If you can get the water from inside the HDD and dry them they should be ok too (depends how handy/careful you are with them)
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Re: I never thought about the oven trick.
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2008, 07:53:01 AM »
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Things dry in air quite nicely and without the risk of actually being inside an over that's been turned on. :-o


Although i don't use the the oven trick all the time, when i have used it (cards and the like) it has worked, i just pressed down on all the chips to reseat them and let it cool down naturally.
Then again i could just be a mad person....  :-D   :-P   ;-)
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3 x A1200 (1 x 030, Indivision and IDE-Fix with 40 GB HDD & DVD Burner)
2 x A4000 (4060, Deneb, Indivsion), CD32.
2 x Apple IIe and A IIGS (Various new cards), + 3 x Megadrives (CD and 32), 2 x Saturns, and a dreamcast.. :D