20 Jan
2007
20 Jan
'07
1:45 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 1:34 AM
Subject: Re: Strange things found in a free SPARC 20
The cat, the board, or both? lol
I have a bunch of cats in the house, they use the kitty litter just fine.
But I did find a hairball on a machine once, that's bad enough. Oh and
Chinese manufactured KVM cables must taste like catnip to young cats (glad
they grew out of that).
Cat urine seems to be very concentrated ammonia, but the copper traces on a
circuit board would be green and show damage unless the board coating did
not get penetrated. In other words the damage should be clear to see if it
was damaged.
On 20 Jan 2007 at 1:06, Teo Zenios wrote:
> I was wondering what you people think about machines that have been used
as
a latrine by
animals, do you clean them up or toss them?
I once owned a very sneaky tomcat. He made one of my PCB's a place to
leave his calling card--and I didn't discover it for about a year.
By the time I got to it, the urine had corroded the copper right off
the substrate in places.
I threw it out. I don't own cats anymore.
Cheers,
Chuck