Board Cleaning Opinions Wanted

11 May 1999

...
  Allison keeps
mentioning putting them in the dishwasher...
I'm somewhat hesitant to do so.  But she's had good luck
with doing it...  
 That kind of scares me also.  I've had good luck with Mac's with a deep
 sink, mild detergent, and a rather large food dryer. 
The PDP-8f boards (except core and FP) were cleaned in the dish washer.
All that needs to be done is put them in like plates and use the standard
dishwasher soap remove before the dry cycle (too warm) and dry in a
160-170 degree Farenheight oven.  A little air to get water from under
chips is not a bad thing.  High pressure air can be deadly as some boards
may have jumpers and ECO wire that can easily be bown off with 120psi air!

Same for scrubbing as solvents like Isopropanal will swell some plastics
used then and the tooth brush may remove part numbers you may later need
to read.

Allison

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