a disaster

[DoogUK]

I've copied and pasted this from my eab thread.

I'm not a happy chappy, at 6am this morning we awoke to water pouring from our bedroom ceiling....a pipe had burst in the loft....and yes you guessed it.....all my amiga stuff is up there sat on the boards that the tank is on.
I have spent the morning stripping sodden insulation out of the loft and taking stuff out, all my boxes storing the stuff soaked up the water like a sponge and everything is soaked.
My 2 1200's and a 600 were in one box and 2 a500's in their own box...still soaked as well as all my big box games.

I know Amigas can be pretty durable and after drying out may still work so here's hoping but i think i can safely write off my games collection.

Also the 500's original boxing will have to be thrown.


In a word....gutted.

hey ho...back to repairs.

[DoogUK]

Ok crisis over, new bedroom ceiling in as it collapsed and all new insulation as it was sodden....got to get the plasterer in now grr.

Sorry to say the amigas had to take a back seat whilst this was going on but now are laid out drying in the front room much to the mrs's dismay lol.

Casulties are 2 boxed a500's, my 2 1200's including my prized 1240 accelerator , several boxes of disks,1 cardboard box with big box games in, acorn archemedes a3000 not to fussed as it didnt work correctly.

My A600 didnt get wet as i first thought so lucky there....just glad i kept my 2000 out as my main use amiga.

Will have to wait til they have dried out now to see whats working and whats not.

Thanks for the kind messages.

edit: another casualty is my supradrive 500xp external drive for the a500....gutted

[DoogUK]

Ok.....one 1200 works the other doesnt....and neither does my accelerator.

My a1200 with 3.0 roms is fine and reads disks so not a total loss.

The other 1200 with 3.1 roms has no life at all, black screen no led's.

I plug my accelerator into the 1200 with 3.0 roms and it just continualy cycles a black to grey to black screen.

Any ideas are gratefuly recieved.

both units and the accelerator are 100% dry.

[DoogUK]

Yesterday morning, they have been on the radiator for over 24 hours and are dry as a bone.

[DoogUK]

I used wd40  :-)

[DoogUK]

An update......both a500's are ok...both working fine.
Gotta love these undestructable units.

Maybe its because they had 2 n half days drying under heat.

[DoogUK]

LOL...thankfuly it was laminate

[DoogUK]

quick update...the a1200 now works thankfuly but the accelerator is still dead.

[DoogUK]

The supradrive lives!