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- ArchieAndrews, on 10/11/2007, -0/+20Also, if you live in a climate that is humid enough to cause the salt in your shakers to "clump" just from sitting, toss 10-15 grains of rice in the shaker with it. The rice never comes out the holes and your salt will stay granulated.
- Sagags, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15Finally I have something to do with this 50 pound bag of rice
- Waskonator, on 10/11/2007, -2/+13Does this work when you piss on your friends Ipod?
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8Yes.
- lcarsdeveloper, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5MacGyver Tip #2: To escape from a Soviet mental institution and free a diplomat who needs political asylum, disguise yourself as a doctor, sneak into the chemistry lab and mix up some explosives using what you find there. To create a distraction, find some chemicals that create smoke when combined, hide them underneath a food tray, and when the smoke starts to flow out the guards won't notice you sneaking past them to the cells where the diplomat is being held hostage. Break in using the key you stole from the guard you knocked out (don't use a gun, ever!), and then use the explosives to blow a hole in the window. Jump outside with the diplomat and into the ambulance your female partner has parked outside. Hit the gas and get out before the guards can catch up to you, and escape across the nearest international border.
- opinionation, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Mac would be ashamed at this. Blackberry.... pfft.....
- nevesis, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5This is a fine way to help it dry, but the water will still leave mineral traces, which can short circuit and fry your board.
Before turning it back on, you actually need to rinse it in deionized water. If you can't find deionized water, use distilled.
Allow to dry, again, and then you should be OK. - mrsmalkav, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5this is the same trick as to why you should put rice in your salt shakers. it helps to absorb any moisture and keeps the salt moving in the shaker.
/me thanks my asian heritage for that little tidbit.
did you know that you can use mashed up cooked rice as glue?
(ed. haha, oops, ArchieAndrews beat me to it...) - 0ceanic, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Desiccants - Do Not Eat
- OropheR, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3MacGyver...he is my fav hero!
- swOhio, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3A coworker of mine just dropped her blackberry pearl in a vat of wing sauce. Give me something to fix that and then I'll be impressed. :)
- krawkula, on 10/11/2007, -3/+6Better suggestion than this, buy a nokia tracphone. Any one except a clamshell. I upgraded to a cell phone and wanted to "dispose" of my old tracphone. I threw it, ran it over, jumped on it repeatedly and barely managed to crack the casing. And on top of that it still dailed and recieved calls. So I dunked it underwater(while on), pissed on it and then proceeded to thoroughly wash it. It then started ringing... so I put it on the railroad tracks, well that worked but if it didnt I would have one hell of a story wouldnt I? Ditch that blackberry and get you a tracphone.
- Butmac, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2The guy's a raging alcoholic! MacGruber!
- hotsake, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Uncooked rice (do not use quick-cooking kinds unless you're keen on starting a fire) tied up in a sock and microwaved for a minute or so makes a nice heated compress. Great for muscle aches and general pain or discomfort. Also good in cold weather as a hand warmer, because sometimes gloves just aren't enough in Minnesota in January! I favor jasmine rice for its pleasant smell.
- actorboy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Not to mention the rice dust. I wonder what affect all that powdered starch has. Un-rinsed rice is pretty damn rife with it.
- JohnnyXmas, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I have 37 functional blackberries sitting on my desk here at work (not even kidding). Anyone want me to try this out and see what happens. Digg up if you do, and I'll post the response here tomorrow.
- badfrog, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2How appropriate: I just watched Good Eats last night (the popcorn episode), and Alton Brown dispelled the myth of rice in saltshakers. It doesn't really absorb moisture, just helps reduce clumping by the extra agitation. Otherwise rice would be able to cook by itself just setting it out in humid weather.
So the phone probably just really dried out on its own. - stevemis, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1This is horrible advice. The proper DIY procedure for an accidental dunk is to immediately remove power (don't turn off - remove battery/power cord) then flush with de-ionized water, distilled water or a high concentration of isopropyl alcohol. These three commonly available items will flush out any salts or minerals that were left by the accidental exposure.
At that point, if you feel it is necessary to hasten the drying process, you can put the item under a light bulb or leave it in your car on a hot summer day. If you have a toaster oven that is capable of operating about 100 degrees, that would work too. Certainly putting a dripping item into a container of rice WILL re-contaminate it. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2I wonder what MacGruber would have done.
MacGruber! - xJudahx, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Swab the contacts with rubbing alcohol and it'll work. I've saved many a friend's cell phone by just swabbing. The ones that wouldn't open, we just dunked in rubbing alcohol and dried, worked just fine.
- chingy1788, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2in the toilet?
would you keep it if you took a dump and then it dropped in? - buglord, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Just last week I got a bunch of old 35mm film (going back away from digital...), put it in a tupperware box in the fridge. The warm summer air cooled down and condensed all over the films.
I remembered the rice in the salt shaker trick, poured some rice in the tupperware box and presto! Nice and dry!
We use these "old housewife tricks" far too seldomly and rely on industrial stuff like dessicant instead... oh well. - Ummagumma, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1All well and good, but I guarantee that in a month or so the device will suffer a catastrophic failure as the leads start to corrode. Guaranteed.
- Sikes, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Years ago I had a Kyocera 6035 phone which ran the Palm OS. A Pepsi had spilled all over and into it. After that, the phone would not turn on and did not work at all.
I removed the battery and ran the phone under the sink for about 2 minutes to wash away all of the syrup and sugar. I then put it into the oven. My oven was gas powered and had a pilot light. This is important as it keeps the inside of the oven slightly warm and very dry. After three days, I took the phone out of the oven, inserted the battery and voila! The phone was completely and thoroughly dry and worked perfectly. - nevesis, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Actually rubbing alcohol should work just like deionized water. But, I hesitate to soak anything in alcohol as it is a solvent.
- endersg, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Once mine shorted out.... I took off the back and put it in a dehydrator on low over night
- pwnedpds, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0A couple of my friends dropped their RZRs into the toilet, and they salvaged them by putting the phones into a sealed plastic container with those moisture absorbing packets that come in a shoe box (about 20 of them) for 48 hours, and it did the trick.
- orlyfactor, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1You mean to to say uncooked rice absorbs water? Is that why they put rice in those condiment containers at restaurants...wow. Although the word "AMAZING" should be in the title IMHO.
- bluhat, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Ummmm....I tried this. Anyone know how to get rice out of a keyboard?
- JohnnyXmas, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0This reminds me of a tip my mom gave me for resuscitating burnt stale cookies:
Throw some bread into the cookie jar, and close it up. It works AWESOME. Now your blackberry works again, AND you have chewy cookies! OMG! - DrunkenDevil, on 10/11/2007, -4/+2The source of this article isn't helping its chances on being dugg.
- PsychoticClown, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1Not the most passionate person about hygiene, I reckon. The 5-second-rule (to him) is probably the infinity-rule. Disgusting.
- chuck667, on 10/11/2007, -10/+5I was about to digg this, then i saw the source...
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