Board Cleaning Opinions Wanted

From: allisonp_at_world.std.com <(allisonp_at_world.std.com)>
Date: Tue May 11 15:54:00 1999

On Tue, 11 May 1999, Jeffrey l Kaneko wrote:

> Thanks to everyone who offered advice; something I was thinking
> was to use warm water, and some dishwashing liquid. Does that
> seem safe?

Maybe, maybe not, depends.

Why is it that most of the manufactueres used something like if not a real
dishwasher that every one is scared off here?

My experience is with more than several hundred s100, multibus, Qbus,
Omnibus and misc non-bus cards over 20 years of doing this it's never been
a problem other than to insure the water is completely dried off the
board. This does not include my expereince with marine equipment that has
had a swim in salt water (hint salt eats boards!).

> I'll leave the corestacks alone (well, I'll use a soft brush to
> remove the dust from the *outside* of the 'sandwich').

The core stacks themselves if there were even a hint of something nasty
on them they'd get washed carefully, it's the fine wire I worry about.
Generally the sense and driver boards are ok to machine wash.

Allison
Received on Tue May 11 1999 - 15:54:00 BST