On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:11 AM, Steve Blackmore <st...@pilotltd.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jan 2014 05:26:55 -0500, you wrote: > > > >Tektronix had a rather nifty wash booth they used to clean up cruddy old > >scopes and other test equipment brought in for repair and/or cal. > > I did some work years ago for a company that refurbished PC's and > peripherals for export to Russia an Africa. They also cleaned keyboards > as a commercial service. > > The keyboards simply went into large industrial dishwashers, followed by > large warm air dryers. They were left to stand on racks keys down for a > week then tested. Well over 90% survived and looked brand new. > > Pretty much everything else went into the washers too! PC's had the > drives removed and went in also. That which survived went for export, > fails went to landfill. > > Steve Blackmore > Yep. Water doesn't hurt most electronics (as long as no power is applied). A lot of the folks mention they use deionized water too. As long as it's completely dry by the time you fire it up, it should hurt. Watch out for paper based caps though, they can be sensitive to the moisture. mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
