Bricksnbeatles
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Water. Lots of fuckin water.
Pictured: after I dried the floors as best I could with a small towel, I set up bins to collect the drips.
Came home from school to grab a few things for my next class, and saw my PPCB Black Friday order had arrived, so I figured I’d run it down to the workbench. Got downstairs, and discovered a pipe from the hot water heater had broken and is leaking into the back room. Is the stuff on the workbench wet? Nope— the drip misses the front of the bench by just a half an inch, so it’s all good right?
Not quite. The bottom drawer of my workbench opens on its own sometimes if there’s a lot of vibration from trucks driving down the street or whatever— so the drawer opened up about ab inch and a half; just enough to catch allllll of the drips that were coming down on that side of the pipe. What was in that drawer? Well… all of my non-uv-printed enclosures, three 80s/90s crybaby wahs which had their lids off so they could promptly be completely filled with water, a box with an all original early 80s Kahler system that I was saving for a Belew Strat build, and a set of custom Strat pickups that were in a now-disintegrated cardboard box and packed in now-waterlogged open-cell foam that promptly wicked up tons of water.
Anyone got any tips on increasing the chances of survival? Last I checked, partially-exposed-coil inductors and open-coil pickups don’t take too well to being dried in rice.
Fuck. Guess I’m gonna be late to class.
(excuse the mess— I knocked Halloween decorations off a shelf when I was grabbing a towel to mop up the inside of the drawer)
Pictured: after I dried the floors as best I could with a small towel, I set up bins to collect the drips.
Came home from school to grab a few things for my next class, and saw my PPCB Black Friday order had arrived, so I figured I’d run it down to the workbench. Got downstairs, and discovered a pipe from the hot water heater had broken and is leaking into the back room. Is the stuff on the workbench wet? Nope— the drip misses the front of the bench by just a half an inch, so it’s all good right?
Not quite. The bottom drawer of my workbench opens on its own sometimes if there’s a lot of vibration from trucks driving down the street or whatever— so the drawer opened up about ab inch and a half; just enough to catch allllll of the drips that were coming down on that side of the pipe. What was in that drawer? Well… all of my non-uv-printed enclosures, three 80s/90s crybaby wahs which had their lids off so they could promptly be completely filled with water, a box with an all original early 80s Kahler system that I was saving for a Belew Strat build, and a set of custom Strat pickups that were in a now-disintegrated cardboard box and packed in now-waterlogged open-cell foam that promptly wicked up tons of water.
Anyone got any tips on increasing the chances of survival? Last I checked, partially-exposed-coil inductors and open-coil pickups don’t take too well to being dried in rice.
Fuck. Guess I’m gonna be late to class.
(excuse the mess— I knocked Halloween decorations off a shelf when I was grabbing a towel to mop up the inside of the drawer)
(too soon?)
