EPROM Erasers?

[Zane H. Healy]

At 7:02 AM -0700 9/16/07, jim wrote:
>Doc Shipley wrote:
>
>><snip>
>>   And every eraser I've seen on a professional's bench had either 
>>bare metal or a sheet of mylar on the floor.
>>
>>   I just got a Data IO 29B from a friend, so I asked the guys at MC 
>>Howard where to get a good cheap eraser. Mel just said "Barber 
>>Supply".  He says for hobby work, the barbers' UV sterilizers work 
>>great.
>
>I'd watch that whatever the pins set on is conductive.  I think you 
>can get some static effects if you don't have conductive materials 
>in the thing.  I had one that was made in a black plastic bread box, 
>and it had conductive foam to park the parts in.
>If you get a unit that isn't an eraser as suggested in other parts 
>of the thread that is all I'd watch.  Make sure that the other units 
>have metal to set the parts on, since a barber shop sterilizer may 
>have glass or such, and not metal.

I did a quick Google, and it appears that it would be more difficult 
and expensive to get a barber's UV sterilizer than a proper EPROM 
eraser.

In any case it sounds like any *cheap* EPROM eraser should be plenty 
good enough for me. :^)

	Zane


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