Terry, I believe you are correct about the plasticizer, or some such outgassing. At my work we ran into something similar with a big last-time-buy order for connectors. They looked exactly like your pictures. As I recall, the key to "prevention" is to allow for air circulation when stored, i.e. not stored in plastic bags. The stuff was declared "not deleterious to the functional aspects of the connector". They were cleaned with alcohol (don't recall which type/concentration) and placed back into stock.
On Thursday, October 24, 2024 at 3:54:55 PM UTC-5 Nicholas Stock wrote: As they're in a sealed container, any outgassing from components/PCB etc may react with plastics? Just a guess.... On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 1:43 PM Mac Doktor <[email protected]> wrote: On Oct 24, 2024, at 4:40 PM, Dekatron42 <[email protected]> wrote: None of the capacitors seems to have leaked nor does any other component seem to be affected and nothing else looks corroded but there are some small droplets on one of the power connectors. Looks like elasticizer leaching out of the plastic but I've never seen it happen to something this new. Terry Bowman, KA4HJH "The Mac Doctor" https://www.astarcloseup.com "If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes."—Roy Batty, *Blade Runner* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/19270921-BC46-4F90-847F-EC1220D378A4%40gmail.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/19270921-BC46-4F90-847F-EC1220D378A4%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/ecaba3e8-41c6-4228-9c58-4d80fb3be43fn%40googlegroups.com.
