On Wednesday 08 January 2014 21:34:02 Gregg Eshelman did opine: > On 1/8/2014 9:09 AM, Peter Blodow wrote: > > The > > sensors were well covered with grease and sticky. I cleaned all three > > carefully with alcohol but it made no difference exept that I get no > > greasy fingers any more. The electronics unit seems to be ok, too, > > probably no noise affair or so. All three channels going crazy in the > > same manner point to a common source. > > I cleaned a glass scale on a milling machine with straight Simple Green. > Took the slider out to slosh around in a can of Simple Green and also > flooded the scale with it, put the end cap back on so it could be > sloshed back and forth. > > Then I flushed it all with plain water, blew it out with compressed air > then aimed a couple of halogen work lights at it (from enough distance > so as not to melt anything) to dry. > > After putting it back together and back on the mill it worked fine. > > My idea was if it already doesn't work, nothing I could do to it could > make it not work. ;-) > > I have an old Proctor Silex pop-up toaster oven (toast out the top, oven > door in the front, nobody makes such anymore) that quit working. The > toaster part wouldn't latch down and it wouldn't spring up either. So I > took it apart and ran it through my dishwasher, then put it back > together. Works better than ever now, just about throws the toast clean > out of the slot. Didn't work, couldn't make it not work by washing it!
Pretty good take on it Gregg. I recall once, back in the late '80's, on an old character generator that had a sticky key problem, so I flushed it all out, several years worth of grit mixed with hand creams of dubious ancestry, with wd-40. 3 days later it had lost 3 keys. I called the CG folks who practically fainted when I said I had used wd-40 to clean it. They said put the phone down, and run, don't walk to the dishwasher, put it in the top rack and run at least 3 cycles with the last using just a squirt of palmolive. Turned out that the $16/copy Cherry brand key switches were hall effect devices that were being poisoned by the wd-40's petroleum content. In the end I wound up replacing 7 of them. It was a pretty heavy duty keyboard, similar to the old IBM's that weighed about 5 lbs and could be used to smash a skull in a pinch. It had by then probably typed a million words or more. And it probably did another million by the time we retired it 10+ years later. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> When I saw a sign on the freeway that said, "Los Angeles 445 miles," I said to myself, "I've got to get out of this lane." -- Franklyn Ajaye A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
