16 Sep
2007
16 Sep
'07
6:15 p.m.
At 7:02 AM -0700 9/16/07, jim wrote:
Doc Shipley wrote:
I did a quick Google, and it appears that it would be more difficult
and expensive to get a barber's UV sterilizer than a proper EPROM
eraser.
In any case it sounds like any *cheap* EPROM eraser should be plenty
good enough for me. :^)
Zane
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And every eraser I've seen on a professional's bench had either
bare metal or a sheet of mylar on the floor.
I just got a Data IO 29B from a friend, so I asked the guys at MC
Howard where to get a good cheap eraser. Mel just said "Barber
Supply". He says for hobby work, the barbers' UV sterilizers work
great.
I'd watch that whatever the pins set on is conductive. I think you
can get some static effects if you don't have conductive materials
in the thing. I had one that was made in a black plastic bread box,
and it had conductive foam to park the parts in.
If you get a unit that isn't an eraser as suggested in other parts
of the thread that is all I'd watch. Make sure that the other units
have metal to set the parts on, since a barber shop sterilizer may
have glass or such, and not metal.