Board Cleaning Opinions Wanted

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Tue May 11 18:31:21 1999

On Tue, 11 May 1999 allisonp_at_world.std.com wrote:

> 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?

Good question! The only circuit cards that I would have any hesitation
about would be those with pots/trimpots and perhaps variable capacitors
installed. The possible problem there being getting them really dry.

                                                 - don
  
> 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 - 18:31:21 BST