Re: [chirp_users] Chirp will not install
I got the impression that the OP was "streaming" the thought. I suspect it meant that before working on computer internals, pay attention to operator grounding. My experience was that older edge connectors were subject to oxidation. Removing the device and rubbing the edge pins with a "genuine" rubber erase, which contains an abrasive (compare with the eraser that removes polymer lead marks), would scrub off the oxidation. Problem is that used aggressively it tended to wear right through the electrical coating on the pins.
On 2023-10-21 14:10:-0400, you wrote:
How do you "ground" something with� a rubber eraser? DR N1EA
On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 12:48 PM Chuck Hast <mailto:kp4djt@gmail.comkp4djt@gmail.com> wrote: Doing proper grounding, the old trick used for years was a proper rubber pencil eraser.
73 Rich NE1EE
That is correct, you make sure you have done proper grounding for YOU prior to dealing with the card. Usually after one scrub, that was it. It was always new cards that needed that touch or very old ones that has been setting in a machine in a grubby environment. Obviously if you have to do it so much that you rub the contacts down, there is something wrong elsewhere.
On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 1:43 PM Rich NE1EE TheDustyKey@imaginarian.org wrote:
I got the impression that the OP was "streaming" the thought. I suspect it meant that before working on computer internals, pay attention to operator grounding. My experience was that older edge connectors were subject to oxidation. Removing the device and rubbing the edge pins with a "genuine" rubber erase, which contains an abrasive (compare with the eraser that removes polymer lead marks), would scrub off the oxidation. Problem is that used aggressively it tended to wear right through the electrical coating on the pins.
On 2023-10-21 14:10:-0400, you wrote:
How do you "ground" something with a rubber eraser? DR N1EA
On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 12:48 PM Chuck Hast <mailto:kp4djt@gmail.com
kp4djt@gmail.com> wrote:
Doing proper grounding, the old trick used for years was a proper rubber pencil eraser.
73 Rich NE1EE
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Off topic????
On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 11:15 PM Chuck Hast kp4djt@gmail.com wrote:
That is correct, you make sure you have done proper grounding for YOU prior to dealing with the card. Usually after one scrub, that was it. It was always new cards that needed that touch or very old ones that has been setting in a machine in a grubby environment. Obviously if you have to do it so much that you rub the contacts down, there is something wrong elsewhere.
On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 1:43 PM Rich NE1EE TheDustyKey@imaginarian.org wrote:
I got the impression that the OP was "streaming" the thought. I suspect it meant that before working on computer internals, pay attention to operator grounding. My experience was that older edge connectors were subject to oxidation. Removing the device and rubbing the edge pins with a "genuine" rubber erase, which contains an abrasive (compare with the eraser that removes polymer lead marks), would scrub off the oxidation. Problem is that used aggressively it tended to wear right through the electrical coating on the pins.
On 2023-10-21 14:10:-0400, you wrote:
How do you "ground" something with a rubber eraser? DR N1EA
On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 12:48 PM Chuck Hast <mailto:kp4djt@gmail.com
kp4djt@gmail.com> wrote:
Doing proper grounding, the old trick used for years was a proper rubber pencil eraser.
73 Rich NE1EE
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I shall shut up...
On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 9:27 PM Jerry - K4OAM kb4oam@gmail.com wrote:
Off topic????
On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 11:15 PM Chuck Hast kp4djt@gmail.com wrote:
That is correct, you make sure you have done proper grounding for YOU prior to dealing with the card. Usually after one scrub, that was it. It was always new cards that needed that touch or very old ones that has been setting in a machine in a grubby environment. Obviously if you have to do it so much that you rub the contacts down, there is something wrong elsewhere.
On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 1:43 PM Rich NE1EE TheDustyKey@imaginarian.org wrote:
I got the impression that the OP was "streaming" the thought. I suspect it meant that before working on computer internals, pay attention to operator grounding. My experience was that older edge connectors were subject to oxidation. Removing the device and rubbing the edge pins with a "genuine" rubber erase, which contains an abrasive (compare with the eraser that removes polymer lead marks), would scrub off the oxidation. Problem is that used aggressively it tended to wear right through the electrical coating on the pins.
On 2023-10-21 14:10:-0400, you wrote:
How do you "ground" something with a rubber eraser? DR N1EA
On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 12:48 PM Chuck Hast <mailto:kp4djt@gmail.com
kp4djt@gmail.com> wrote:
Doing proper grounding, the old trick used for years was a proper rubber pencil eraser.
73 Rich NE1EE
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