From: utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!floyd!trb Newsgroups: net.rec.photo Title: Re: drying out cameras and lenses Article-I.D.: floyd.384 Posted: Thu Jul 22 16:16:01 1982 Received: Sun Jul 25 22:51:38 1982 My sister once swam in the ocean and when she came home I submersed her in fresh water but... Seriously, I don't quite see how freezing or boiling or submersing something in water is going to keep it from rusting or otherwise decaying... I realize that temperature is correlated to speed of oxidation, but would someone out there explain how submersing a lense in water is going to make it not rust? Maybe if you submersed it in a more inert fluid... Chemical engineering student turned hacker (pv=nrt), Andy Tannenbaum Bell Labs Whippany, NJ (201) 386-6491