How relevant is this to the discussion?  Being the person that I am, I waded off into a creek to fish, electronic ignition key in my pocket, unprotected.  I usually put it in a gasketed plastic immersion bag, and suspend that from my shoulder, when in the creek.  This time it was in my pants' pocket.

I didn't realize what I had done until five hours later when I walked up to the car to unlock the doors.  I said to my friend, "Well, I royally <messed> up.  He demurred, suggesting that Toyota builds good stuff.

Well, I walked up to the car, reached for the door, and the clunk and the chime indicating that it unlocked sounded.  When I attempted to start the car, it started right up, no problem.

When I got home, I opened the fob, to find not a drop of water inside.

---- Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> "Getting power off instantly is key, though.  Modern circuit boards may
> have extremely fine circuitry with no copper to spare to electrolysis."
>
> Yes, true dat.
>
> --
> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
> Bend, Ore.
>
> On 07/21/2013 09:43 AM, David Beierl wrote:
> > At 12:24 PM 7/21/2013, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
> >> Most electronic components can tolerate washing with distilled water and
> >> then full drying but some parts, notably electromechanical parts like
> >

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David McNeely