[PLUG] maybe plug-talk material, but ...
Denis Heidtmann
denish at dslnorthwest.net
Thu Oct 11 15:27:37 UTC 2007
Russell Senior wrote:
> 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!
>
>
Have you contacted the manufacturer?
Denis
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