On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote:
> > Pretty good take on it Gregg. > > I recall once, back in the late '80's, on an old character generator that > had a sticky key problem, so I flushed it all out, several years worth of > grit mixed with hand creams of dubious ancestry, with wd-40. 3 days later > it had lost 3 keys. I called the CG folks who practically fainted when I > said I had used wd-40 to clean it. > > They said put the phone down, and run, don't walk to the dishwasher, put it > in the top rack and run at least 3 cycles with the last using just a squirt > of palmolive. Turned out that the $16/copy Cherry brand key switches were > hall effect devices that were being poisoned by the wd-40's petroleum > content. In the end I wound up replacing 7 of them. It was a pretty heavy > duty keyboard, similar to the old IBM's that weighed about 5 lbs and could > be used to smash a skull in a pinch. It had by then probably typed a > million words or more. And it probably did another million by the time we > retired it 10+ years later. > > Cheers, Gene > Tektronix had a rather nifty wash booth they used to clean up cruddy old scopes and other test equipment brought in for repair and/or cal. http://www.radiomuseum.org/forum/tektronix_washing_your_instrument.html Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
