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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Don Kuykendall_RIP" data-source="post: 203597" data-attributes="member: 6277">When I worked at the TV station we had an idiot Master Controller who worked the late night shift all by himself. He was known to drink cokes and sit the coke on the switcher. The switcher is the board that is used to route everything to the network. Think a panel that has 6 rows of about 50 switches per row.Well one night he spilled the coke on the switcher. He tried to clean in up so it did not show when looking at the board and was successful. Two hours later the board quit working and the engineering staff was called im. I got there for my shift and live show at 4:30am to find everyone there and the station off the air. Luckily  I knew how to route around the switcher and get us on the air. I told all the engineers that they needed to remove the switcher and wash it as soon as possible and they all laughed at me. Two months later and they had been trying to clean it and they could not get replacement parts they finally got in touch with someone who had worked for the not defunct company that built it. His suggestion was to take the board out and wash it with as much filtered water as possible and then use a fan to dry it for a week. Do this as many times as necessary to get it clean. After about two weeks of cleaning the switcher was put back in and worked better than it had worked in years and I had the last laugh.When I was in camera sales and photofinishing we used to suggest that when you dropped your camera in the ocean that you remove the battery first and then wash the camera off in clean water and then dry with a hair dryer. I have not heard anyone talking about what ot do with the new digital cameras when they are dropped in the ocean. So what is the thoughts on this?</blockquote>

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