Re: PDP-8/a cleaning

2017-04-25 Thread Philipp Hachtmann via cctech
Hi Pontus, I reply to the original post, but I have read many funny comments. None of them I considered harmful. My PDP-8/A is up for restoration. More specifically and 8A100 according to it's ID plate. It is in overall "ok" shape but oh so dusty. I'd like to give it a good cleaning so

Re: PDP-8/a cleaning

2017-04-25 Thread ben via cctech
On 4/24/2017 1:19 PM, Pontus Pihlgren via cctech wrote: Hi My PDP-8/A is up for restoration. More specifically and 8A100 according to it's ID plate. It is in overall "ok" shape but oh so dusty. I'd like to give it a good cleaning so I'm tearing it down. And I'm looking for suggestion to

Re: PDP-8/a cleaning

2017-04-25 Thread jim stephens via cctech
On 4/25/2017 12:45 AM, ben via cctech wrote: I would go for distilled water, tap water could have chlorine it it. Ben. Good point. Also with care, I've seen distilled water, then alcohol rinse (not rubbing, but pure of some sort), then air dry. This is used on optics to get rid of water

Re: PDP-8/a cleaning

2017-04-25 Thread allison via cctech
On 04/25/2017 03:45 AM, ben via cctech wrote: > On 4/24/2017 1:19 PM, Pontus Pihlgren via cctech wrote: >> Hi >> >> My PDP-8/A is up for restoration. More specifically and 8A100 according >> to it's ID plate. It is in overall "ok" shape but oh so dusty. >> >> I'd like to give it a good cleaning so

Re: PDP-8/a cleaning

2017-04-25 Thread allison via cctech
On 4/25/17 6:06 AM, Pete Turnbull via cctech wrote: On 25/04/2017 10:08, jim stephens via cctalk wrote: On 4/25/2017 1:39 AM, Pete Turnbull via cctalk wrote: "Little residue" would be more accurate, and some of that residue will be water (look up "azeotrope") - plus you need a lot of