[PLUG] maybe plug-talk material, but ...

Russell Senior russell at personaltelco.net
Thu Oct 11 06:27:34 UTC 2007


Over in Personal Telco land, we were doing some node maintenance
today.  The node is an apartment building in which we had deployed 5
devices that meshed together using WDS.  A while back we had noticed
that something oily was dripping from several of them and we didn't
(and don't) know what it was.  Today we were there and cracked one
open and found this:

  <http://www.personaltelco.net/gallery/v/nodes/nodeloc/westovertowers/DSC03138.JPG.html>

  <http://www.personaltelco.net/gallery/v/nodes/nodeloc/westovertowers/DSC03137.JPG.html>

The goo was melted like that in three of the five devices and in the
other two, remained in a crisply-cornered block above the radio card.

Two questions: 

  a) what is that stuff?  (we thought maybe the remnants of the
     stay-puft marshmallow man, but that was just a guess);

and 

  b) what solvent would be appropriate for washing it off the circuit
     board?

Thanks!


-- 
Russell Senior, Secretary
russell at personaltelco.net



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