A Computer you can use in the Shower

Step 10 Some tips

Buy a lot of silicon right away. You will need 2 or 3 tubes of it, if you use the caulk kind.

Hot glue doesn't work well for this project. I mearly suggested it as a way to do it if you had some laying around. You would go through sticks extremly fast anyway.

PLEASE DO NOT SUBMERGE YOUR LAPTOP. This was only ment for showers/rain.

Don't cover the motor on the hard drive with silicon. It tends to not work after that.

Charge your laptop out of the shower or rain. At least keep it dry. I know you don't want 120 volts (220 outside North America) going through you. It doesn't feel good (death can occur).

Try to find a good way to exchange the heat in your computer. A few comments have suggested ways to do this.

Find a good way to remember how to put it back together.

If you have one of those touch pads that you use as a mouse, I recommend that you fill an optical mouse full of silicon too. These mice don't work well in water.

Wear a paint/gas mask (pictured below). The fumes in the silicon made my nose bleed. I read the tube and it said that the fumes were acidic.

Have fun but be safe.

Comments

[lemonie]

Did this stuff smell of vinegar, and carry a warning to "use in a well ventilated area"?
A dust mask isn't going to be of much use to you.

[bmlbytes]

I don't know what to say. It worked OK. My nose didn't bleed after using it and it didn't smell sour anymore.

[lemonie]

That's good. I think acetic acid is a solvent in these things, use outside if you can.