> On Sep 26, 2016, at 11:37 AM, 'douglasjar' via iMac Group > <imaclist@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > Open for suggestions, > Major flood last wensday > My apple 2,apple 2 plus,GS,mac 1 [4 of],Mac 1 plus,pizza box,Mac silver [many > of each model under 3 feet water] > PDP-8 with 350÷ disk and 3 to 500 pc type in flood zone.
Flood ‘act of nature’ flood or ‘busted pipe flood’? Pop any PRAM batteries out of them, asap, and wash them in clean water. You will want to disassemble them as much as you can for this process. Let them air dry (in an enclosure with Damp RId if your humidity is insane, as I’d expect to to be in flood situation.) If it’s an ‘Act of Nature’ type of flood there will be a lot of gunk, mud, nasty nasty stuff. Burst pipe floods are often just ‘let everything dry'. I got a G4 from a friend who rescued a bunch of Macs from a flood in Richmond VA a number of years ago, after Hurricane Gaston. <http://dbdev2.pharmacy.arizona.edu/flood/index.html> and my part cleaning up one of those <http://dbdev2.pharmacy.arizona.edu/swampthing/swampthing.html> It took a while to clean it out (not pictures was the power supply cleanout: I took the case off of the PS and it was a mud brick. I simply grabbled the PS by it’s cables and kept dunking it in a 5 gallon bucket of water until all the mud was washed away, then left it in the sun to dry for a day. Note, this is AFTER my friend had hosed them all out, let them dry and fired them up to see if it worked! If you move fast and avoid corrosions you should be ok. SwampThing lasted as my primary desktop for several more years, although I did eventually update the CPU, RAM, and Video card. I only replaced it when I went to an Intel mac. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
