[Coco] Using a NTSC Coco in the UK - my findings

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 22 February 2007, Mannequin* wrote:
>jdaggett at gate.net wrote:
>> On 22 Feb 2007 at 15:20, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> I suspect this is going to happen more and more often, so I recommend
>>> getting a "plcc" puller from the shack, and reseating the gime.  We
>>> had the same problems with the amiga's as they aged, requiring both
>>> the agnus chip and the socket be separated and both cleaned up with a
>>> WET pencil eraser, WET to hold down the static, then blown dry to
>>> remove the eraser debris before reseating the chip in the socket.
>>> Commie never heard of gold flashing anything, just like the shack.
>>
>> ******************
>> ARGH the wet pencil eraser!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>
>> I have always used alcohol and a Q tip. Pencil erasers leave residue
>> that has oils in them. I use alcolhol from Walgreens that is 90%. SOme
>> outlets you can find up to 95%. Th at is even better.
>
>LMAO. Before working in a Macintosh only store, I used to use just a dry
>pencil eraser. During and after working there, it became a good ol'
>fashioned can of Tun-O-Wash and a Q tip. Before I left home for this
>cold cunck of rock (UK'ers in here please don't kill me! ;) ) the store
>that I was able to find it in went belly-up. I have no idea where to
>find it anymore. :(
>
IIRC, Tun-o-wash had tri-chlor in it.  Not conducive to good liver health 
and has been pretty much regulated out of existance for consumer apps 
these days.
>-M.



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