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Question Getting USB thumb drive wet

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wpshooter

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Have a friend (no it really is not me) who sucked his USB thumb drive (which had his backups on it) into his wet VAC.

I gave him a replacement thumb drive and redid this backup.

It has been about a month since his drive went in the soup, any possibility that after drying out, it might still work ?

Would it possibly hurt anything if I tried the thumb drive on my old laptop ?

Thanks.
 
1 month? It would have dried up by now, however it's the junk inside that would concern me. Wet vacs especially the one in my garage is full of tiny metallic debris from cars. If it's possible, I would take it apart and spray electrical contact cleaner all over the PCB.
 
put into a rubber-maid container with a sealed lid, covered in isopropyl alcohol, and let it sit for a few hours, maybe shake it up a bit with the cover on the container, and then remove and let air-dry for a few days, it's probably fine.
 
wpshooter said:
Have a friend (no it really is not me) who sucked his USB thumb drive (which had his backups on it) into his wet VAC.

I gave him a replacement thumb drive and redid this backup.

It has been about a month since his drive went in the soup, any possibility that after drying out, it might still work ?

Would it possibly hurt anything if I tried the thumb drive on my old laptop ?

Thanks.
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might need to sand off the rust get some fresh contact points.
 
Tried it in my old desktop and it worked just fine. The way it is made, it would have had to have been in the water for a fairly long period of time for the water to get into the interior of it. Probably pretty much waterproof at least for a short period of time. Thanks.
 
wpshooter said:
Tried it in my old desktop and it worked just fine. The way it is made, it would have had to have been in the water for a fairly long period of time for the water to get into the interior of it. Probably pretty much waterproof at least for a short period of time. Thanks.
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Some of mine have been through a washer and dryer in the pocket of my jeans. They have always worked after a few days of drying out for safety in a cup of dry rice.
 
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