[plug] Fluid damage to Laptop

Chris Caston caston at arach.net.au
Sat Sep 16 08:33:49 WST 2006


On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 16:49 +0800, Arie Hol wrote:

> I would be very wary of capillary action - which might have taken the 
> wine (in liquid from) into confined spaces where it could be held there 
> by the capillary action (and then be difficult to "see" and remove) - 
> then with time and heat the wine could either evaporate of crystallise - 
> crystals tend to expand as then grow - so if they are in between two 
> vulnerable components - it is anybody's what the outcome might be.

Ah yes... as I remember there was a 80's movie about a computer that had
wine spilt over its keyboard.

The PC became self-aware and then later fell in love with its owners
neighbour at which point it self-destructed.

regards,

Chris





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