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Skriven 2006-07-07 16:31:08 av James Bradley (1:134/77.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Greg Mayman
Ärende: Latex Connections-Was Id
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Sorry for the delay. I had a modem go wonkey, and they only do that when the
backup OLMR system is torn down. I guess we waited this long for traffic... <G>

On or about 06-21-06 10:12, Greg Mayman wrote James Bradley: LATEX
CONNECTIONS-WAS ID

 -=> James Bradley said to Andy Ball
 -=> about "LATEX CONNECTIONS-WAS ID" on 06-12-06  11:49.....


 JB> I adopted a VCR+remote, that had too much to drink. (Vodka Screwdriver
 JB> is my best guess.) The acids or alcohol seemed to prevent a reliable
 JB> connection, and finally prevented any connections to be made with the
 JB> pad, onto the electrical PC trace. I washed the latex contact area,
 JB> padded out as much of the mineral rich water I could, and I dabbed off
 JB> as much sticky stuff as I could off the PC
 JB> trace.

 JB> Problem; the more I wash, the less contact they seem to make.

 JB> I'm suspecting there must be an electrolytic wash for these things, as
 JB> contact cleaner didn't improve a previous patient.

 GM> I was under the impression that the button itself was made of
 GM> a conducting material.

That's the best info I have on them too. In my last cell phone, I swapped an
LCD screen, where there was a carbon (?) impregnated block as the only physical
attachment to the circuitry. Turn it 90^, and the contact is lost. 180^; back
to normal. Obviously, that block was designed to conduct in one physical 
polarization, and not the other.


 GM> I can only pass on the story of a remote control that failed
 GM> in a similar way. The story was entitled: Easter Egg Saves
 GM> Remote, and went on to tell how the repairer cut a piece of
 GM> foil from the wrapper of a chocolate Easter egg and glued
 GM> this to the bottom of the button where it contacted the
 GM> tracks on the board. The remote then tested out as fully
 GM> functional!

That sounds like a fantastic fix. I'd imagine the foil tape used to alarm
windows when breaking, would be a simple application.

Thanks for the notion!


... James
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