5 Jan
2006
5 Jan
'06
10:57 p.m.
9000 VAX wrote:
I have washed motherboards and cards (most are 386s or
486s) for
numerous times. No heated dry though. Just use a fan to blow air at it
overnight.
vax, 9000
Same here, in fact when I had a dishwasher it was standard procedure.
Now I have to do it by hand! I normally scrub with a tooth brush. I
even use soap or some type of spray cleaner like Fantastic. They get
rinsed with hotish water. If the board has a lot of places to trap
water, I'll blow it off with my compressor, or R134a (canned air). Then
it gets stood up on an edge in front of a box fan, and I'll rotate it
every so often. Sometimes I'll leave it over night, but really a few
hours is all it takes. Sometimes I'll put stuff in the oven. I've even
done a PC power supply or two this way, after I've taken it out of it's
chassis. I'll get just about anything wet, that I feel I can get dry
effectively.
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA