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Re: Maintenance of sockets, cards, etc.. (was Re: Packard Bell

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From: j... Jonathan A. Chandross
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 1990 18:46
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j...@karazm.math.uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend)
> Just last week, a friend of mine had a PC's Limited XT go out of
> whack.  We called Dell (the current owner/name of PC's Limited)
> customer support (on a 5 year old machine :-) and one of the
> first things the support tech said to do was clean all of the
> card edges with an eraser.  (He didn't say to clean the eraser
> first, but we did that anyway. :-)

Don't EVER do this.  You'll remove all the gold plating from the
card edge.  Instead, use alcohol; it does the job and won't remove
the gold plating.  Once you remove the plating you'll have grief
on a regular basis as the edge, now just plain copper, oxidizes
away.


Jonathan A. Chandross
Internet: j...@paul.rutgers.edu
UUCP: rutgers!paul.rutgers.edu!jac
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From: j...@paul.rutgers.edu (Jonathan A. Chandross)
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Subject: Re: Maintenance of sockets, cards, etc.. (was Re: Packard Bell
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Date: 11 Sep 90 18:46:59 GMT
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