[Coco] Unpacked my CoCo Stuff

[Rogelio Perea]

On 4/12/07, coco at yourdvd.net <coco at yourdvd.net> wrote:

> If you think a cat has urinated on the equipment - don't plug it in -
> the saline in the urine is highly conductive - think short-circuit.
> Someone once mentioned that a circuit board could be cleaned with water
> and dried with a blow dryer - i've used alcohol and a blow dryer to
> clean boards that people brought me where they had spilled soda and
> such on them, but alcohol sometimes leaves a residue...
> As for the yellowing of the plastic, I think it is caused by uv and is
> not reversible (i could be wrong) - i just used white spray paint,
> masking tape over the labels and such and sprayed away (of course it
> was disassembled so i only sprayed the case - didn't want paint getting
> near the keyboard or anything else...)
>
> I saw on a website, don't remember where, that someone used oxyclean on
> keycaps after removing them...

Not too long ago I used Greased Lightning (http://www.glblast.com/) on
my CoCo 3 case. I had kept the case rather clean but throughout the
years some dirt and grease had become 'stuck' in the case rough
exterior accents, could not remove that with plain water and mild
soap.

I don't know about what GL would do to the yellowed case BUT it worked
wonders with the dirtied plastic surface. Removed all out down to the
clean original white surface... it was so good that - as I had not
been careful on its application - GL touched the Color Computer name
plate and stripped off all the color from it. Now I am the prod owner
of a super clean CoCo 3 with a silver plated name badge on top... be
careful when using GL.

I guess I'm lucky as the CoCo 3 didn't have a yellowed case... need to
find something like that to see what GL would. But, I know I can end
up with just a clean yellowed case, UV radiation goes more than skin
deep on the plastic.


-=[ Rogelio ]=-