Two years ago my cute little Alinco DJ-C7t got wet during a kayak trip. It was in a plastic bag no less... Anyway, the display went wonky and it was never the same. It's been in a plastic bag all ripped apart for two years now. I took it to work today and decided to try to revive it. Got it all working again and even repaired the plastic case which was cracked, by melting some plastic and filling in a missing part with it and then smoothing it down with an emery board. The display still isn't right, it's still missing part of some digits, but enough I can pretty much read it and it's a lot better than it was. I can't for the life of me figure out what is killing it, as I cleaned all the oxidation off and cleaned the contacts. Weird.
Anyway at least it works at all. I like it because it's tiny and it has 2m and 440, plus it can receive pretty much anything a scanner can up to 512 mHz I think, including the aircraft band.