Ultrasonic cleaning of old boards

[stepan]

Remove any crystal oscillators before ultrasonic cleaning your boards. Those are very sensitive and the crystals in them are easily destroyed. Probably what hit those SE/30s.

 

[mg.man]

and tried to remove with a blow torch?

I was just following advice I saw on YT.

 

[Phipli]

I was just following advice I saw on YT.

This Old Tony? You can always machine it back on.

Or was it AvE? In which case its fecked.

 

[max1zzz]

No, but that looks PERFECT for my batt-bombed IIsi 'board!

Now i'm no expert but I think that one might have a bad '030 too......

 

[mg.man]

I think that one might have a bad '030 too....

NO WAY!! I figured the torched-on caramel would SURELY protect it from the 1 hour session in the US bath? NO?

 

[Bryant]

This is all great advice - thanks everyone!