Waaaah! No! :( About this, do not forget about the leaking backup batteries for static memory settings...waaaah! Green jiggles where traces used to be... Jason D.

rusted trace stuff... snip! Me whining about rust. :) Muriatic Acid? Why? Is those all fuzz green things still shorts things or still giving problems even resulting mess was cleaned up with strong alcohol and checked out for shorts, I did not find any opens or shorts....? Jason D. > I've run into the problem of leaky batterys corroding circuit boards > quite a bit, mainly on arcade games and computer motherboards where the > battery is soldered in place. As long as the corrosion isn't too bad, I > use Muriatic Acid, i.e. 33% HCl, and add it a drop at a time to the > affected area. After all the fizzing has stopped, I rinse it under the > faucet with cold water, dry it, and generally everything ends up fine. > If I am feeling particularly like doing the job right, after rinsing > under the tap, I'll rinse it off with either DI (DeIonized) or distilled > water. A couple of hours out in the sun or under a lamp completes the > job. Where traces have been eaten away, it is generally not too hard to > just replace the traces with wire wrap wire. Granted, it takes some > time but it can be worth it.