UPDATE: RT 6151 is home!

From: jpero_at_pop.cgocable.net <(jpero_at_pop.cgocable.net)>
Date: Sun Oct 18 16:51:47 1998

> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 18:54:02 +0100 (BST)
> Reply-to: classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu
> From: ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell)
> To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers" <classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: UPDATE: RT 6151 is home!

> Any dilute acid, I guess (the battery electrolyte is alkaline). Then wash
> with distilled water and dry. No harm in then using isopropyl alcohol on
> the boards to clean off other dirt, although that'll do nothing for the
> battery problem

yeah, that what I think.

I have to gather up a fat painter brush (round one), vinegar, and
distilled water tomorrow.
 
> There are several PSUs used in the 6150 from what I've heard. One of
> them is assembled by self-tapping screws with no slots in the heads (no
> idea how they got them in, possibly they had heads that were then broken
> off, like some security screws). It's worth gripping the heads with
> self-locking pliers and trying to unscrew them.

Gasp, that was already defeated easily because they're too proud by a
mere common self-locking pliers. 4 of them but they're plain fine
pitch not self-tapping kind. I saw them with both security and
slotted screws all "wood self-tapping kind".
 
> I've never seen blind rivets (as in, you can't get to the back of the
> panel after assembly which is the case here) which aren't of the
> pop-rivet type. Certainly not in a computer anyway.

*Smacks my head*, that is how I sees those because it looked like
rivets to me. :) They're like slotless screws. :)

Oh yeah! there are one type that has twisted ridges that are pushed
in by machine. How did I know? That was from younger days when I
was stripping out guts out of old consumer stuff and car stuff. :-)

Jason D.

>
> -tony
 
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