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What happens When You Cook Your Palm Pilot

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the burnin'-down-the-house dept.

Hal-kun writes "What happens when you put a Palm Pilot in the oven to dry with the warmth of the pilot light, only to have someone cook a Pizza while you were out? Take a look. Stick a fork in it, I think it's done."

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  1. If you like this stuff... by kisrael · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...and don't mind a little blatant karma-whoring:
    The Palm Graveyard is dedicated to tales and pictures of Palms that have piloted their way to the choir invisible.

    --
    SO YOU'RE GOING TO DIE: The Comic for Dealing with Death
  2. How to fix a car radio by ortholattice · · Score: 5, Interesting
    About 10 years ago my wife spilled some Coke (or Pepsi) into the dashboard, and somehow it drained into the radio/cassette, rendering the unit nonfunctional. The dealer and a repairman declared it a total loss.

    Here is what I did to resurrect it.

    I took the radio out of the car and the cover off the radio. I filled the kitchen sink with cold, clean water and soaked everything, cassette player and all, for 1 hour. Drained the water, refilled the sink, and soaked for another 15 minutes (rinse cycle). Finally, I baked it at 160 deg F in an (electric) oven for 8 hours.

    Why 160? I figured a car radio could get that hot when the car was in the sun with the doors closed. I hesitated to go higher, mainly concerned with the plastic parts in the cassette player.

    The radio and cassette still work fine to this day. Yeah, I still own the car - these days only gas-hogging SUVs match the surprising storage space inside of the tiny-looking frame of a 1988 Honda Wagovan, AFAIK made only one year, and only in tan. With plenty of headroom for extra-tall folks.