11 May
1999
11 May
'99
2:24 p.m.
I had a Z-19 terminal that was sitting (fortunately turned off) underneath
a leaking saltwater pipe on a ship. I took out the boards, washed them
with distilled water (I don't remember if there was a dishwasher on the
ship!), and dried them. The terminal worked just fine.
Dave
allisonp(a)world.std.com wrote:
On Tue, 11 May 1999, Jeffrey l Kaneko wrote:
Thanks to everyone who offered advice; something
I was thinking
was to use warm water, and some dishwashing liquid. Does that
seem safe?
Maybe, maybe not, depends.
Why is it that most of the manufactueres used something like if not a real
dishwasher that every one is scared off here?
My experience is with more than several hundred s100, multibus, Qbus,
Omnibus and misc non-bus cards over 20 years of doing this it's never been
a problem other than to insure the water is completely dried off the
board. This does not include my expereince with marine equipment that has
had a swim in salt water (hint salt eats boards!).
I'll leave the corestacks alone (well,
I'll use a soft brush to
remove the dust from the *outside* of the 'sandwich').
The core stacks themselves if there were even a hint of something nasty
on them they'd get washed carefully, it's the fine wire I worry about.
Generally the sense and driver boards are ok to machine wash.
Allison