Re: Omega Race board repair...anyone?

I'll agree with John on the longevity of these boards after corrosion
repair. While I have not conducted any long term scientific test I have
observed some cases where the corrosion will reappear. I currently use a
bead blaster myself & try to retin any area cleaned of corrosion but I still
have seen mixed results. I don't know if this is a matter of corrosion
remaining in the PCB material or what. Perhaps a longer chemical soak or a
different chemical soak is required?

Try to find a unblemished board if you can.

I've got a few Omega boards to test different approaches if anyone has
suggestions.

Kev
mowerman@erols.com

> True, they are serviceable, but I have found that they can take up to
> twenty hours to fix with the massive extent of corrosion damage. Not worth
> it. At least for a shop. Certainly the work that Clay did on his site
based
> on my research about dealing with battery corrosion can be successful, but
> this is an UGLY board to troubleshoot due to lots of sockets and many IC's
> near the battery. I have trouble believing that these boards can be
> reliable (like more than a few months) based on the few corroded ones that
> I have seen.
>
> John :-#)#

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Received on Wed Jul 19 14:01:07 2000