<div dir="ltr">I shall shut up...<div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 9:27 PM Jerry - K4OAM <<a href="mailto:kb4oam@gmail.com">kb4oam@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Off topic????</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 11:15 PM Chuck Hast <<a href="mailto:kp4djt@gmail.com" target="_blank">kp4djt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">That is correct, you make sure you have done proper grounding<div>for YOU prior to dealing with the card. Usually after one scrub,</div><div>that was it. It was always new cards that needed that touch or</div><div>very old ones that has been setting in a machine in a grubby </div><div>environment. Obviously if you have to do it so much that you</div><div>rub the contacts down, there is something wrong elsewhere. </div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 1:43 PM Rich NE1EE <<a href="mailto:TheDustyKey@imaginarian.org" target="_blank">TheDustyKey@imaginarian.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I got the impression that the OP was "streaming" the thought. I suspect it meant that before working on computer internals, pay attention to operator grounding. My experience was that older edge connectors were subject to oxidation. Removing the device and rubbing the edge pins with a "genuine" rubber erase, which contains an abrasive (compare with the eraser that removes polymer lead marks), would scrub off the oxidation. Problem is that used aggressively it tended to wear right through the electrical coating on the pins.<br>
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On 2023-10-21 14:10:-0400, you wrote:<br>
>How do you "ground" something with a rubber eraser?<br>
>DR<br>
>N1EA<br>
><br>
>On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 12:48 PM Chuck Hast <<mailto:<a href="mailto:kp4djt@gmail.com" target="_blank">kp4djt@gmail.com</a>><a href="mailto:kp4djt@gmail.com" target="_blank">kp4djt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>Doing proper grounding, the old trick used for years was a<br>
>proper rubber pencil eraser.<br>
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73 Rich NE1EE<br>
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