11 May
1999
11 May
'99
2:31 p.m.
On Tue, 11 May 1999 allisonp(a)world.std.com wrote:
On Tue, 11 May 1999, Jeffrey l Kaneko wrote:
Good question! The only circuit cards that I would have any hesitation
about would be those with pots/trimpots and perhaps variable capacitors
installed. The possible problem there being getting them really dry.
- don
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