Re: Omega Race board repair...anyone?

These have to be the worst for corrosion, I have had fairly good success
with most pinball boards, but then you only have to reconstruct a dozen or
so traces. Omega Race has SO MANY IC's near the battery! Gah!

John :-#)#

At 03:44 AM 7/19/00, Kev wrote:
>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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