Tonight’s image is brought to you by the number 60.2 and the word Dismantle. What an evening! A nice cup of peppermint tea ended up mostly in a laptop, which has been stripped down, washed in de-ionised water and left in a box of rice to fully dry out. Hopefully it will boot again. 
That done my attention turned to the dishwasher. Surprisingly light when you empty the water that pools at the bottom. There’s a nice side air vent on the right that’s connected to a flexible hose, and ideal route in for filament if I keep the spool external. And a way to vent hot air and fumes. With the pump and salt filler removed I’ll have somewhere for the PSUs to sit and USB to route through.
I’ve seen loads of these things being dumped at the recycling centre and never thought to use one before. Instead of cutting the door and fixing a glass panel I’m thinking of mounting an old LCD screen on the front that can display the OctoPrint camera view. With the side panels off it makes me think of an old neglected droid from Star Wars. When the weather improves it may get a paint job. T3P3 as a hat tip to the great service I consistently get from the guys at @Think3dPrint3d
Oops, 2:30 AM, stripping the rest of the junk off it will have to follow in the morning. Night all!
Heating element turned into a chamber heater? Probably wouldn’t work correctly, but could be a fun experiment 
Could help dry out filament too. I just noted how the metal box bolts onto the plastic frame housing all the pump gear below. It would be super easy to replace it with something more like tank tracks. A mix between droid and WALL-E. Printing wheels and track segments should be easy enough. Putting a printer like a Eustathios in it would be nice, make much better use of the space.
Print treads! It could come find you when it’s done with the print!
Shoulda bought a thinkpad… ThinkPad Torture Test: The Spill: http://youtu.be/5wjBQE0_ejQ
I don’t know about wanting it to start walking across the office floor, but doing a little forward, back, turn left and right and beep could be fun. I bet there are some great motors to be had off dead washing machines at the recycle centre, apparently the majority are dumped because the main bearing for the drum is shot.
It is a Lenovo, but wasn’t a ThinkPad.
For the record, I don’t have one, but I thought all laptops should have that drainage feature.
It would have saved a lot of trouble if mine had! Still, looking on the bright side I’ve taken it as a sign to upgrade to a 1TB hybrid HD/SSD drive to get a performance boost.
