> On Jun 22, 2016, at 10:49 AM, william degnan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I picked up a DEC VR201 display today, it was leaking a highly corrosive
> brown liquid. So corrosive it burned my skin painfully / immediately and
> I had to wash hands thoroughly. Anyone come across a display that leaked a
> corrosive liquid like that? The display was stored in its original box, so
> I don't think the brown liquid was from something stored on top of it, but
> I don't know for sure.
Electrolytic capacitor? That's about the only component I can think of you'd
find in a monitor that might contain corrosives. (Batteries also do, but a
VR201 is not likely to contain one.)
paul
