4 Apr
2005
4 Apr
'05
10:42 a.m.
On Apr 4, 2005 7:19 AM, John Foust <jfoust at
threedee.com> wrote:
My RK05F has a white powdery junk all over the inside, and all the plastic
bits have hardened (some have shattered). Is this the same problem? I
figured something had caused all the plasticizer to boil out or something.
Vince
I was hunting for odd bits in my piles the other
night and was
shocked at the decay of several plastic parts. The ends of a
set of GPIB cables for an old CBM disk drive were covered in a
white powder coating - not mold, but slow decay of the plastic.
I have been seeing the same thing with my C= GPIB cables (as well as
certain tool handles from the same era). AFAIK, it's inevitable with
that sort of plastic.