Via chipset KT133 and system instability

[ronnie gauthier]

If you need to use an eraser a soft artgum has no abrasive.

On Wed,25 Dec  2002 15:59:44 -0800 
- "Net Llama!"
<netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote the following
Re: Re: Via chipset KT133 and system instability

>On 12/25/02 15:41, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
>> My understanding that using the pencil eraser was done to clean the 
>> contacts, not give it extra conductivity.  We used the eraser on
>boards > that were exposed to chemicals that created Silver sulfide
>deposits > blackening the contacts.
>> 
>> 
>>> from Net Llama!:
>>> 
>>> [8-<]
>>> 
>>> " Graphite is an insulator, not a conductor.  Pencil eraser is also
>an>> 
>>> If we're discussing -electrical- conductivity (there are other
>>> kinds:), then, according to
>>> 
>>> http://mineral.galleries.com/minerals/elements/graphite/graphite.htm
>>> 
>>> 'Graphite is a good conductor of electricity.'
>
>I stand corrected, however i still think its a bad idea to run an
>eraser over the contacts, since pencil erasers are no longer pure
>rubber, but some other composite.
>