[Coco] Using a NTSC Coco in the UK - my findings

[Mannequin*]

jdaggett at gate.net wrote:

> On 22 Feb 2007 at 15:20, Gene Heskett wrote:

> 

>> I suspect this is going to happen more and more often, so I recommend

>> getting a "plcc" puller from the shack, and reseating the gime.  We

>> had the same problems with the amiga's as they aged, requiring both

>> the agnus chip and the socket be separated and both cleaned up with a

>> WET pencil eraser, WET to hold down the static, then blown dry to

>> remove the eraser debris before reseating the chip in the socket. 

>> Commie never heard of gold flashing anything, just like the shack.

> 

> ******************

> ARGH the wet pencil eraser!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

> 

> I have always used alcohol and a Q tip. Pencil erasers leave residue that has oils 

> in them. I use alcolhol from Walgreens that is 90%. SOme outlets you can find up 

> to 95%. Th at is even better. 


LMAO. Before working in a Macintosh only store, I used to use just a dry 
pencil eraser. During and after working there, it became a good ol' 
fashioned can of Tun-O-Wash and a Q tip. Before I left home for this 
cold cunck of rock (UK'ers in here please don't kill me! ;) ) the store 
that I was able to find it in went belly-up. I have no idea where to 
find it anymore. :(

-M.