[Coco] Best way to clean up FD501 controller board.

[Mark McDougall]

William Schaub wrote:

> I just Gave this a try, all I could find was 50% isopropyil alcohol It 
> seems to have worked quite well. I'm waiting for the alcohol to dry off 
> and then I will give it another go hopefully it will work this time 
> round. otherwise I will be wanting a new controller  I would be glad to 
> give the non-working board as a source of parts.

What exactly are you cleaning? Just a general clean of the PCBA surface 
won't do a lot...

You need to remove the socketed chips and clean the pins, and the sockets if 
you can. Also paramount are the card-edge connectors on either end of the 
board. Anything else is little more than cosmetic...

Regards,

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