ANTS!!!!

From: Dwight K. Elvey <dwight.elvey_at_amd.com>
Date: Mon Nov 17 13:57:54 2003

Hi
 Many contact cleaners contain silicon oils. Contrary
to popular opinion, these oils actually improve contact in
sockets and edge connectors. Petroleum oils do just
the opposite.
 I have used silicon based greases to improve the contact
of high current connectors when other methods have failed.
( DON'T use heat sink grease )
Dwight

>From: "Joseph Stevenson" <ikvsabre_at_comcast.net>
>
>Oils in contact cleaner??
>
>Joe
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Pete Turnbull" <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
>To: <ikvsabre_at_comcast.net>; "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic
>Posts" <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
>Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 1:47 PM
>Subject: Re: ANTS!!!!
>
>
>> 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
>
>
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