Hi,
How many of you remember John Cameron Swazey's (sp?) Timex commercials? "It
takes a licking and keeps on ticking." Careful; if you reply to this,
you'll seriously date yourself. Chip, you might make some yen off this
story.
John P
----- Original Message -----
From: Chip Stratton <cstrat@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 10:46 AM
Subject: RE: [OM] OM4 etc.
> > The beater 3 I have has been soaked through in a tropical
> > rainstorm once, and after it "dried out" was 100 functional again,
within
> > hours. Don't have anything else that would of taken that, and many
other
> > abuses (maybe the M4P I once owned, but that is about it- none of my EOS
> > stuff would have continued functioning). Funny how the 3 never seems to
> > come up much for discussion on this list. My favorite OM
> > product, for sure!
>
>
> Hmmm, I think I can one-up you on this. I have a nice champagne OM-4t
that
> took a full swim in nice, salty, Penobscot Bay water last year. I was
> crushed, and sure it was doomed, but after immediately removing the
battery
> and swirling it about in a pail of fresh water, I carefully placed it on
the
> still warm auxiliary diesel of the boat we were using, where it sat
> overnight. Unbelievably, it still works fine - shutter speeds still on
> target too. I keep waiting for the day when it will finally kick over, and
> that day may still come.....
>
> Chip Stratton
> cstrat@xxxxxxxxx
>
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