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The Sequel - Oh Blimey I bought a CNC Lathe (Beaver TC 20)
awemawson:
Yes quite feasible. The problem comes if the electrolyte from the battery has destroyed any of the copper traces.
I suspect if I were brave, a good wash in hot water might dissolve a lot of it, and where rust has been washed down a card, a light brushing of citric acid to remove the Fe2O3, but I'm not sure what effect it would have on the tinning on the ic's legs. It also rather depends what's been washed under a chip. Some of the devices are surface mount so no gap but stuff will have crept into the tiny space that must be there.
I've just made an offer to a chap in Germany for one of the battery backed memory cards - problem is it is mounted on a 'Card-B' (my notation) and he is asking rather a lot. My offer is for the sub-card. Fingers crossed - you never know he may accept.
nrml:
How about ultrasonic cleaning with distilled water?
awemawson:
They might end up going through the domestic dishwasher :lol:
Pete.:
Washing it might work, the trouble is you don't know how long for.
A few weeks ago a guy at work spilt a whole large cup of coffee onto his gaming laptop. He took it to a repair shop and they pronounced it non-repairable, all it had was a single red flashing led when you tried to power it. They couldn't even get it started to allow him to recover files plus the keyboard was integrated into the chassis so that was non-removable too and obviously full of dried-up sticky coffee.
I carefully pulled off all the keys and popped all the plastic moulding pins to get the coffee out of the keyboard, but the board still would not start. In desperation I washed it (the motherboard) in the kitchen sink by squeezing out a sponge wetted with very hot water and scrubbing the whole board off with the damp sponge, then I left it under a heat lamp to dry. After that it fired right up, and it is still running weeks later, though it does tend to get hotter than it did before.
awemawson:
Years ago we took on the support of all Eastern Electricity Board's white goods distribution system - loads of terminals in shops and offices.
We used to put their faulty keyboards through the dishwasher, taking them out after the rinse but before the dry cycle. They then went into the equivalent of an airing cupboard for a few days. The vast majority worked after this treatment :thumbup:
(I learnt this trick during recruitment interviews - I'd placed a 'staff wanted' advert in the paper in the town where the previous maintainer was based, and of course attracted several of their employees. More than one of them revealed this trick, which we shamelessly copied :clap: )
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