Interesting story!
I liked the vodka part a lot.
Tells me that in situations like these true inventiveness is needed. Hope I
never get into that kind of situation with my gear.
Did you remove the top cover on your OM4T? If so, what about the water
sealings? Did they protect it or were they just hindring the water to get out
of the body again?
Regards,
Bernd
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chip Stratton" <cstrat@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] OM System Reliabity
> Not so extreme! Our sailboat engine was still warm after motoring into the
> harbor we were visiting. After removing the battery (first thing after
> falling into the salt water) I dunked the OM4T into a pail of fresh water
> for a minute or so, then shook it out an placed it on top of the still
> warm (but not hot) engine overnight. I had also disassembled it as best I
> could.
>
> Same thing was done to my Zuiko 24/2.8, but it didn't dry out as well, and
> I had it cleaned and had all the aperture blades replaced because they
> rusted - and is as good as new as far as I can tell.
>
> If I had it to do over again, I would have followed the fresh water dunk
> with a nice bath in a quart of vodka, to dewater it more quickly.
>
> Of course, the vodka might have introduced quite a bit more distortion into
> the pictures it made....
>
>
>
> >
> > Chip wrote:
> >
> > " warm diesel engine drying"
> >
> > ??? What did you mean by this?
> >
> > - Placing the camera onto the asbestos of the exhaust manifold?
> > (might get
> > too warm) - Hanging the camera in the exhaust gas steam (too warm
> > probably, but = more likely sulfur attack) - ???
> >
> > Could you recommend this treatment in other cases?
> >
> > ;-)
> >
> > Bernd
> >
> >
> >
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