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    Destructive Testing Gets Saucy!

    Being BOILED ALIVE sounds absolutely gruesome and, for one unlucky CORSAIR VOYAGER MEMORY STICK, it was just that! HEXUS.tv added insult to injury with scorching, lava-like sauce and horrible mastication...
    Watch the show.

    Liked it? Then Digg it!
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    Re: Destructive Testing Gets Saucy!

    Got to say that we killed ourselves laughing with this one



    Our Corsair Voyager is STILL working !!!

    Nick reckons, next time, we just shoot the thing...

    ...promise to bring you footage of the attempt



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    Re: Destructive Testing Gets Saucy!

    Made me smile.

    I've got a spare somewhere..............lol


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    Re: Destructive Testing Gets Saucy!

    I don't imagine it would survive a direct hit from a bullet, a pellet maybe, heh.

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    Re: Destructive Testing Gets Saucy!

    Funny, try microwaving it?
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    Re: Destructive Testing Gets Saucy!

    Quote Originally Posted by Paulm@scan View Post
    Funny, try microwaving it?
    Yeah, first the plastic would melt, then hopefully an explosion when raw mental is exposed, heh.

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    Re: Destructive Testing Gets Saucy!

    <checks recipe>
    I have a microwave, memory stick and cameras
    <list complete>

    Not sure about lighting one of those things - will take some thinking !

    Glad you liked the saucy one...

    ...have to say that I was REALLY not sure it would survive the boiling water

    Heat = softening/expansion of the rubber

    Boiling water = steam and condensation (bad for lektrix)

    Also, this is an old stick - maybe 12 months - and has taken quite a beating with 'regular use' - so it is not as 'young and tight' as it once was

    All in all - so far - it 'does exactly what it says on the tin'



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    Re: Destructive Testing Gets Saucy!

    OK...I saw the memory stick go into the mouth...I DIDN'T see from whence it was recovered...

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    Re: Destructive Testing Gets Saucy!

    Quote Originally Posted by nichomach View Post
    OK...I saw the memory stick go into the mouth...I DIDN'T see from whence it was recovered...
    Haha, that'd be another good one, can it survive the human digestive system?

    The gun one should be interesting, I can see it surviving it if it's free standing.
    I don't mean to sound cold, or cruel, or vicious, but I am so that's the way it comes out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nichomach View Post
    ...DIDN'T see from whence it was recovered...
    Still hobbling slightly - the things we do for love...


    Quote Originally Posted by Mblaster View Post
    ...I can see it surviving it if it's free standing...
    Good point !
    Nick will be sorting out the specifics (cos he has a long history of shooting things), but if there is a 'less destructive' way of doing it (i.e. suspended from a string) - then we'll do that FIRST



    p.s. STILL can't get past the fact that it carried on working after the water. Sauce I can understand cos it was very gloopy - but water = steam = gets in everywhere.

    p.p.s. Just to make sure you all know, I washed it (closed - under a tap) after the 'cooking' - towel dried it - then hit it with some 'canned air' - then put it on my window sill for about 20 minutes in the 'long hot English sun' - THEN we put it in and it worked.

    p.p.p.s. Some people have asked about exposure time... In the water for about 5 minutes (total) and around 2 minutes in the lava sauce. Complete wash off under the tap each time. Bottom line... IT WAS SOAKED !!!
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    Re: Destructive Testing Gets Saucy!

    I have to say these are impressive things, mine is the black and blue one and has survived 4 washes in a washing machine, and 2 tumble dries, however it would appear the tech hungry kitten has stashed it somewhere, and hopefully when we move it will show itself again

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    Re: Destructive Testing Gets Saucy!

    Quote Originally Posted by Andrzej View Post
    Also, this is an old stick - maybe 12 months - and has taken quite a beating with 'regular use' - so it is not as 'young and tight' as it once was.
    pun's galore in an Andrzej post ... surely not

    Mine's survived a good dunking in Stella, been kicked across a dancefloor and also bouncing off the walls when I've thrown it to somebody who always can't catch a cold nevermind a pendrive.

    Add to this the numerous washing cycles thats been performed on it it should have been dead ages ago, but scarily it's still functioning.

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    Re: Destructive Testing Gets Saucy!

    Quote Originally Posted by HEXUS View Post
    Watch the show.

    Liked it? Then Digg it!
    That pasta looks goooood. Mmmmmm

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    Re: Destructive Testing Gets Saucy!

    Should have got Nick to make the pasta.

    Cooking with Nick while hes pissed with a side order of tested to destruction. Mmmmm.
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    Re: Destructive Testing Gets Saucy!

    Quote Originally Posted by Nikumba View Post
    ...survived 4 washes in a washing machine...
    By accident - I bet


    Quote Originally Posted by Lee @ SCAN View Post
    ...good dunking in Stella...kicked across a dancefloor...bouncing off the walls...washing cycles...
    Can't imagine the design team that came up with it, ever had this 'treatment' in mind - can you ?

    "We'll put some rubber on the outside, just in case someone sneezes on it", was probably the 'design logic'


    D'ya think Corsair will read this and think or ?


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    Re: Destructive Testing Gets Saucy!

    If you want to impress me - stick it in with the sunday roast for 2 hours.
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