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to: ROY WITT
from: BRUCE LEGRANDE
date: 1998-01-27 18:51:00
subject: Cleaning Card Edges

Roy Witt wrote in a message to Bruce LeGrande:
 RW>> Pull the card and use an eraser to clean the contacts and it
 RW>> works again...
 BL>
 BL> One thing Roy forgot to mention is that after cleaning with
 BL> the eraser, don't put the card back into the slot until you
 BL> wipe the contacts WELL with a piece of cotton with cleaning
 BL> alcohol (ie 99.9%) to remove the bits of rubber or residue
 BL> that may have been left behind.
 RW> I use Acetone or MEK...cleans off residue flux as well...be careful
 RW> around plastic encapsulated components though.
Sounds good Roy...  I just mentioned alcohol because when I was
working in production/operations in a commercial radio station,
we had a push-top dispensor of denatured sitting next to the
reel2reel decks as we needed to clean the heads and pinch rollers
inbetween the tape changes (15" reels), and I figured that since
it was good enough for the tape heads - it would probably be OK
for the card edge connectors.  Your solution (no pun intended)
sounds a bit more elegante...  Thanks for the info...
 RW> ... @C:\GD\TAG\TAGLINE.LST
 RW>  - Origin: KB6PI * HAM-ECHO Moderator * San Diego, CA *
 RW> (1:202/909.10) 
Sincerely,
           Bruce - kb6lwn@qsl.net - http://www.qsl.net/kb6lwn
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