ANTS!!!!

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Mon Nov 17 12:47:00 2003

On Nov 17, 7:58, Joe Stevenson wrote:
> Fly spray shouldn't hurt the board, but I would spray it down with
contact cleaner.
> The biggest worry from ants is the formic acid they produce.
 Hopefully that did not
> damage the board.

NOT contact cleaner. Proper contact cleaner contains oils that will
stay behind; fine in minute amounts on your switch contacts, but not in
your ROM sockets, or all over a board where it collects all manner of
airborne crud. Iso-propyl alcohol -- which is the carrier in contact
cleaner -- would be OK, so would ethanol. Neither will do much about
the formic acid; water will be better for that.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York
Received on Mon Nov 17 2003 - 12:47:00 GMT

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