Apple Lisa 1 - restoration project

[Christian Corti]

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Jules Richardson wrote:
>>    Vinegar! Vinegar! Vinegar! The common household type!
>
> That possibly depends where you are - US folks seem to think of household 
> vinegar as being the white stuff,

But you don't use that for your salads, do you? :-)

> whereas in the UK malt vinegar is typical.

Normal vinegar is usually some kind of wine vinegar, with or without 
herbs, or balsamico. I wouldn't use that to clean a PCB. Malt vinegar is 
(almost) completely unknown in Germany and France, I think.

> I believe it's the white stuff that should be used; too many impurities in 
> the other...

I use vinegar essence (25% vinegar) from Surig in such cases. I used that 
for my Amiga 3000 which had the same symptoms (NiCD "leaked", corroded 
traces etc.) some time ago.

Christian