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Re: Cleaning old Apple II cards?



On Jun 22, 6:13 pm, Steven Lichter <diespamm...@ikillspammers.com>
wrote:
> PZ wrote:
> > Water.  Or water with some dishwashing soap, provided that you rinse
> > well so not to leave any residue.  Use a fingernail brush and make
> > sure the card dries off completely before you turn it on.  Anything
> > without a transformer on it will be fine.  I've cleaned up //e and GS
> > mobos with the spray nozzle from my garden hose.  Do a light towel dry
> > to remove drops and hit it with a hair dryer for a minute taking care
> > not to overheat the board.  Then leave the card out in the sun for a
> > day or over a register vent (ac or heat) to let any moisture remaining
> > underneath IC's to evaporate.
>
> > - Paul
>
> I was thinking about a compound that we used to clean cards for
> Telephone Switching Centers; those cards range up to $25,000 so you have
> to be careful.  I'm looking through some of my old operations manuals to
>   see if I can find out what it is called; I know it worked very fast
> and did not damage anything on the card.  I do remeber it was made by or
> for Western Electric, but you could find most of those products at other
> places; one that comes to mind is GrayBar Electric, which you can find
> in any large city and on the Web, their prices can be steep unless you
> have a working account from them/
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Hey, I've got a Greybar account, do you remember what the product
would be I would order from them?