[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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