Re: Omega Race board repair...anyone?

After reading all this: what is is the best method or substance to neutralise
the acid (stopping even more corrosion), and cleaning up the excisting
corrosion?

Regards,

Mendel

John Robertson wrote:
>
> 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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Received on Wed Jul 19 16:47:05 2000