James Sparenberg wrote: > Ok ... here's one for you.... As you may or may not know California > is in the middle of a series of torrential downpours... and as luck > would have it some servers I've been maintaining for a friend with a > small home business ... well.... drowned. Tried the hair dryer routine > on one of them (full tower cases water got up about 6 inches (9.2cm)) So > only the lower portion of the mobo and the nic's where under water. > Problem is that even though it was straight rain water, hardwater > deposits do conduct electricity and as a result I popped a powersupply. > Years ago I would have used trichloralfloralethane to clean the parts > and get rid of the deposits... but ... It's no longer sold. Any > recommendations on what to use to really clean up these parts so that I > can get the boxes back online? or should I just sing the following
What I would try: 1-Distilled water (the universal solvent) 2-Blow excess water with hair dryer or compressed air 3-Bake at 150F one hour 4-Test if necessary 5-Contact cleaner & bake again if necessary 6-Replace radial capacitors below the water line if necessary 7-Give up > song? > (To the tune of Silent Night) > > Servers are down. > Some of them drowned. > Water Rose > Service froze. > Don't you know that > computers don't swim > UPS just won't save them this time > Time to shop on E-ba-ay > Ti-ime to shop on E-bay. Or Pricewatch. -- "If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you. . . ." Proverbs 9:12 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/
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