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People who spill drinks... by saxguy 2001-11-29 13:02:53
...should not be allowed to own laptops.

I've got a client's Toshiba right here on my bench which is a prime example. Although Toshibas are built relatively smartly (with 2 layers of plastic and a layer of metal in between the keyboard and all other essentials) somehow, whatever this joker spilled managed to follow known physical laws and seep through cracks in a downward direction and now there's brown sticky stuff all over the logic board. Preliminary scientific testing reveals it to be a cola-based substance.

Being paid to repair it isn't necessarily a bad thing - the gross-out factor of wiping up someone else's schwag is only about a 5 on my scale; where the problem comes in is that the salespeople took the liberty of quoting him the price for a new keyboard (around $50+labor) which he agreed to; now I'm the one who gets to call him and tell him that he needs a $650 part plus additional labor to disassemble the entire laptop instead of just popping a new keyboard in. Of course he's not going to want to go for it -- which means I'm going to be stuck with a dead laptop and no money -- and not even any usable parts to rip from it because they're all coated with brown goo.

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  The hard disk and ram should be salvageable by pecosdave2001-11-29 13:06:34
    yeah by saxguy2001-11-29 13:36:29
      that sounds bad - waitaminute by saxguy2001-11-29 13:39:33
        Of course... by saxguy022001-11-29 18:27:33
  May not be quite that bad by G7MMJ2001-11-29 13:30:39
    I kinda doubt that will work. by Arcanum2001-11-29 13:35:23
      Further scientific testing reveals by saxguy2001-11-29 13:56:47
        You can be certain..... by pecosdave2001-11-29 14:00:23
          LOL!! by saxguy2001-11-29 15:00:58
            Why Cola is corrosive: by chromatix2001-11-29 15:31:37
              Uses for cola by Arienadean2001-11-29 15:39:02
                Another use for cola by fredf2001-11-29 22:19:03
            The reason smokers spill crap by JPaganel2001-11-29 16:05:53
    If it had been anything but a Toshiba by saxguy2001-11-29 17:09:44
      Now that is one great gadget. by Stavros2001-11-29 17:28:37
        Funny you should ask by G7mmj2001-12-01 10:41:15
    The proper substance to clean goo on boards . . . by esd2001-11-30 00:14:23
  saline solution by nimdokk2001-11-29 15:38:49

 

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