Phonoland

Thanks Alan

Another rub around everything with the fibre pencil seems to have done the job. I'm sure it was that leaking battery that caused all the problems.

Anyway, it's back up and running. Thanks to all of you for your help.

Hello Keith,

I am glad to hear that you have currently got it working, but I would suggest that this be only short term, in cleaning the board with the fibre glass pencil you have made a connection that had come adrift.
I would check all the capacitor legs by moving them slightly and seeing if the solder joints show any movement.
Do not however start resoldering every joint on the board because this is an engineers nightmare to sort out after, I usually just recommend to resolder the connection pins and only then if you can solder correctly.

I usually end up with the boards to repair that everyone has had hand in.
Many years ago I was very pressed for time and I sent a board away to another repair company, this by all accounts went to several other people before it came back to me for repair.
Never again, these days if the repair takes time then so be it.

Regards
Alan

Alan Hood
ami-man
UK

Guy's,
IMHO, using the fiber (fibre, to you's guys across the pond !) to clean a PC board of "battery gunk" is not going to stop the problem--it MUST be nutrilized--plain old baking soda works, followed by 91% rubbing Al-key haul. Ron Rich