cleaning up edge connectors

Peter Cetinski pete at pski.net
Thu Apr 28 16:03:37 CDT 2022



> On Apr 28, 2022, at 3:47 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> I am hoping to restore my TRS-80 Model-I(s).  As is usually
> the case with these the edge connectors are badly corroded
> and dirty and cleaning them with an eraser really doesn't
> help much.  Back in the day there used to be something you
> could get that let you "gold plate" the edge connectors.
> Is anything like that still available?  How about reflowing
> the pads using something like silver solder?
> If neither of these is doable or practical, what are people
> doing to clean up these connectors?
> 
> bill

TRS-80 guru Ian Mavric sells those gold connectors for the TRS-80.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/164568343523 <https://www.ebay.com/itm/164568343523>



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