From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Fri Jun 19 1998 - 19:33:46 EDT
I can tell you (from first hand experience) that disassembly of a 755 keyboard is
not easy, AND RE-assembly is nearly impossible..!!
(see the 'bird' previous comment)
:-)
billy_at_MIX.COM wrote:
> > Just a quick warning about these products - I once used some of Caig's
> > Deoxit (a contact enhancer, like Tweek) on a desktop machine's slots, and
> > accidentally oversprayed onto the motherboard. Mysteriously, the machine
> > would then not work until I carefully cleaned the residue off the PC board.
> > (This violated everything I thought I knew about PC board construction:-)
> > *Did* help the slot contacts, I should add - wonderful stuff.
>
> This stuff is a conductivity enhancer so it most likely induced enough
> leakage between some circuits to cause a problem. At today's speeds and
> board densities this would not be all that hard to do. The average key-
> board is a very low-tech device with loads of room between conductors
> but even so this is the classic case of "less is more". If I had any
> confidence I could get it back together ok I'd have disassembled it and
> applied it directly and only on the contacts themselves...
>
> Billy Y..
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