Drowned in a vat of malmsey

[RosieH]

Or near as dammit.

A badness has befallen my ipod, involving being totally submerged in a handbag full of wine. Any hope of saving it at all?

[Jah Lush]

The ipod, handbag of the plonk?

[giggirl]

Was it Vintage wine?

[RosieH]

Ipod Jah: the plonk was sub-standard festival fare, and the handbag has been salvaged with the help of a Dyson Airblade, so all I care about now is my tunes.

[RosieH]

Gigi - indeed it was.

[Jah Lush]

Vintage wine!! Oh the shame. Bugger the ipod. It's probably kaput anyway. Now, more importantly what was the wine that you so carelessly spilt?

[RosieH]

Nah Jah, twas the wine AT Vintage.

[giggirl]

RosieH,

You may just need to reboot your ipod if it's frozen. How you do that depends on the model. Try here:

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1320

Px

[skidmarks]

My ex dropped hers in the bath. I took it to a shop in West Kensington and they fixed it in a week for ?45. Can give you the details...if they are still there it was a couple of years ago.

[woofmarkthedog]

No...

It's DEAD

Score so far

Survivors.

1 x phone down the bog ( pre flush 1's + 2's )

1 x phone into the hot bubble bath ( mid conversation ). Fished out & carried on convo

DEAD

1 x Phone/mp3 slid from top pocket straight into glass of decent vino. Never recovered, dead. I still keep trying to revive but not a sausage. It's the sugar content that does it

So, seems your I-pod is in " perma- nidd"

W**F

[karter]

rinse it in cold water then stick it on the radiator. With this weather though, having to have the heating on is blooming unpredictable..

[Applespider]

What karter says - does partly depend on whether it was on or not at the time. Either way, don't try turning it on until it's thoroughly dried out - it's got more chance of having survived if it's not a hard drive model by all accounts. I did once resuscitate an iPod shuffle that had inadvertently been through the washing machine...

[karter]

thanks applespider. rosie's ipod will not work in wine though, she should then perhaps stick the thing in the washing machine first before drying it out. maybe stick it in d tumble drier.

[giggirl]

... and, for good measure, give it a squirt of starch and a quick press

[karter]

or just take it to the dry cleaners and job done. (tu)

[dubluke]

fill a bowl with some couscous and leave the ipod sitting in it for a few days, the cous cous draws out a load of the moisture from the player and hopefully it will start working again once dried out, this girl I used to work with did that after leaving her iphone in her jeans and then washing them and it worked fine after the cous cous trick

[RosieH]

Thanks all (well, most!) for the excellent tips.

I'm going to soak it in some cold water, then put it in a bowl of couscous, and if that doesn't work, then I'll serve it up with a nice bit of harissa and preseved lemons.

[expat]

>... if that doesn't work, then I'll serve it >up with a nice bit of harissa and preseved lemons.

What the ipod? 8-)

[karter]

don't forget to share it with us rosieh. :)

[HAL9000]

If you decide to try a desiccant, seal everything in an airtight container otherwise it will absorb water vapour from the atmosphere. I'm not sure about couscous: Anhydrous Calcium chloride (available from B&Q and hardware shops) is very effective - it comes in small packs used to dry out dampness in basements, etc.

Also, if you soak it in water, a quick soak in methylated or surgical spirit or isopropyl alcohol afterwards will help chase off the water and speed up the drying process. (Caution - inflammable.)

A better option would be a vacuum desiccator - I'd offer you the use of mine but it's in long-term storage at the moment. But someone else might have one available.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Dig it out HAL, I'll be next in line for me pot pourri!

[PeckhamRose]

Been thinking about getting one of them Dyson Airblade thingies. ?100 a tad expensive though. But they look good and you can train small animals to jump through its hoop.

Couldn't you attach the ipod to a piece of wire /string and tie it to each side, or top and bottom, of the airblade, and just dry it out to death?

Soooo

Songs for wet iPods.

Anything by Wet Wet Wet obviously.

[RosieH]

expat Wrote:

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> >... if that doesn't work, then I'll serve it >up

> with a nice bit of harissa and preseved lemons.

>

> What the ipod? 8-)

Indeed expat, with a side order of Rock the Casbah.

Dessicants - now we're talking. But reading around t'internet, it seems that the sugar is indeed the problem as the dawg has said. So maybe a quick soak to try to get rid of the sugar and then the dessicant to try to get rid of the water, and then a trip to the new Apple store in Covent Garden to buy a new ipod...?

PR - I'd be inclined to go for a little Slippery When Wet myself.

[HAL9000]

The alcohols suggested above will dissolve sugar.

I'm wondering whether a breast or penis enlargement pump could pull enough vacuum to dry out an iPod? I don't have either of those and doubt if anyone would admit to owning one anyway - no harm in trying, though.

I'm sure MacGyver could get it to work (to dry a wet iPod, that is).

[RosieH]

Ah, really? (the alcohol that is, not the breast pump - don't need one of those, nor a penis pump neither). Will give that a go.

Plan.