This an embarrasing confession which also carries with it a technically useful bit of info. A couple of weeks ago, a friend telephoned me for a chat and as I was in the middle of doing something, I clipped the portable battery phone to my shirt collar and now 'hands free', was able to continue working and holding a conversation. As the conversation was lenghty, and I was already busting for the loo I wandered off to the Kahzie, still chatting as I 'went' (youv'e guessed this already). Just as I concluded my 'waterworks', the phone decided it was time for a bath and leapt from my collar to perform a very artistic swan dive staight into the 'pool'......! ???
As I hadn't actually reached the flushing stage of my ablutions, I stared at the phone in the bottom of the bog in dis belief and as SWMBO was out, hurled many expletives in the direction of the bog. I was tempted to flush the thing but had visions of it getting jammed in the bend or worse still ,the sewer pipe, so had no option but to fish the thing out...... up went the sleeves , out camethe phone, qquick look round, no SWMBO so more cursing aplenty.
This is where it gets technically interesting and I refer to another thread where we discussed the best way to treat drowned radio equipment . The proceedure was as follows, turn on the hot tap, fill washhand basin with warm water whilst shaking surplus nasty stuff from the phone. Remove battery and chuck the whole lot in the warm water. After much swilling around and rinsing out, the unit was shaken dry as much as possible and immediately placed in the casing of the workshop heating boiler and left for 24 hours. I would normally immerse this type of equipment in alchohol first but didn't have any.
Next day, battery back in phone and hey presto.... one fully functional phone!
I noticed on switch on, there was a message on the anwering service, it was the friend I had been speaking to at the time of the mishap stating that there was a strange noise and that he had 'lost me'. We had a ruddy good laugh at this one but I have to say, even although the phone still works, I don't quite feel the same about using it any more!