[PDP8-Lovers] how to clean a PDP8/A, dishwasher?

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Sat Dec 15 03:52:28 2001

On December 15, Boatman on the River of Suck wrote:
> > > I know that a good percentage of you are skeptical. Every one of my
> > > games in my arcade collection had at least the CPU boardset in the
> > > dishwasher. Several others had every single board through the wash.
> > > All of them work, and did so before going into the dishwasher and
> > > immediately after drying. Others had the monitors powerwashed. I took
> > > an entire 11/780 out into my driveway and I powerwashed the chassis
> > > AND backplane!
> >
> > I thought we weren't supposed to use the dishwasher on anything with
> > capacitors.
>
> It's fine, as long as the capacitors aren't charged.

  ...and as long as they're not paper capacitors. Most paper
capacitors are dipped in wax, but that won't always make a perfect
waterproof seal.

    -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL         "Less talk.  More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
Received on Sat Dec 15 2001 - 03:52:28 GMT

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