Hello Bruce.
27 Jan 98 18:51, Bruce LeGrande wrote to Roy Witt:
 BL> Roy Witt wrote in a message to Bruce LeGrande:
 BL>
 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.
 BL>
 RW>> I use Acetone or MEK...cleans off residue flux as well...be
 RW>> careful around plastic encapsulated components though.
 BL>
 BL> Sounds good Roy...  I just mentioned alcohol because when I was
 BL> working in production/operations in a commercial radio station,
 BL> we had a push-top dispensor of denatured sitting next to the
 BL> reel2reel decks as we needed to clean the heads and pinch rollers
 BL> inbetween the tape changes (15" reels), and I figured that since
 BL> it was good enough for the tape heads - it would probably be OK
 BL> for the card edge connectors.  Your solution (no pun intended)
 BL> sounds a bit more elegante...  Thanks for the info...
 Just don't breath the fumes...especially MEK as you'll damage brain cells.
We use MEK in the shop to clean parts of the oils used in machining.  A place 
I used to work, used a hot tank filled with MEK.  A lethal environment to say 
the least...
One of my best friends is a Radio Technician who is the chief cook and bottle 
washer in his repair facility.  He keeps a push-top dispenser such as yours 
filled with MEK for cleaning boards.
... I multitask by reading in the bathroom!
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