On April 15, Sridhar the POWERful wrote: Actually it works quite well, at *low* temperatures. Electric ovens work best for this since gas ovens produce tons of moisture. Trouble is, many ovens can't go low enough (~200F or so). I've had good results from sitting stuff atop floor-mounted heater vents in the winter. This obviously works best when the equipment in question has air vents. Over the past ten years or so, I have gotten a *large* quantity of equipment (literally hundreds of computers) that has been out in the rain, sometimes for months. Some of it I use daily even now. Computer stuff (except for floppy and hard drives) tends to deal with it fine, even monitors. Analog stuff like test equipment tends not to fare so well, nor does mechanical stuff like scanners (though my main scanner was indeed out in the rain for about a week; after a little TLC it performs flawlessly). The water doesn't seem to do any harm at all, even with long-term exposure...it's the crap that the water can carry into the equipment, and sometimes corrosion later on. -Dave -- Dave McGuire "Hush and eat your vegetables, young lady!" St. Petersburg, FL - Mr. Bill