[sdiy] deoxit

[cheater cheater]

Nathan,

Use the continuity checker (which sends a signal tone through a buzzer
if you have a correct connection between your probes). If you get a
nice clear tone, you're fine.
I don't know of a reason a trace should increase its resistivity,
unless it disconnects completely, and the continuity checker finds
that of course.
Watch out with chemicals. Rinse the board with water after use.
Otherwise residuals will be liable to react with anything that will
happen to fall into your synth (cig smoke and dust are some very rich
sources of various reactive chemicals). This could in turn eat away
your synth. Also, plastic hates chemicals.

Cheers
D.

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Nathan M. Reeves <djservs at comcast.net> wrote:
> Well, I got some of this stuff from Radioshack yesterday and, while not
> cheap, its very impressive.
>
> I sprayed some onto the legs on a VERY corroded IC in my korg poly6 (can u
> guess which board?!) and some of the leds that are constantly on turned off!
>  yay!
>
> still got lots of stuff to fix on this bad boy but i thought it was
> interesting that the deoxit at least did some good right off.....
>
> while im on the subject, how do you test traces on the PCB with a DMM?
>
> i assume you look at the resistance and if you get zero ohms then its good,
> or is it more complex than this?
>
> cheers,
>
> nate
>
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