[CCTALK] RE: scanners & circuit boards.. - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

16 May 2002

...
   I'd be
more concerned with accidentally scratching the
 glass bed of the scanner due to sharp component leads. 
 You can't scratch glass with metal. What you can do is leave
 a thin trace of metal on the glass. Gewelers rouge will easily
 remove this is nothing else will.

 I guess that there is a slight possibility of degrading the
 contents of an EPROM if its window isn'tcovered. 
 Glass is opaque to UV so you won't erase EPROMs either. 
EPROMs don't have UV-opaque glass windows, they have 
UV-transparent quartz windows. So they can be erased,
but not by casual exposure.

Regards,
-dq