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post Sep 15 2003, 04:22 PM
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My soldering skills leave something to be desired and the space in which to perform the soldering is rather tight but I was able to do it...I think...at least it looked okay and felt solid. Here's a picture of before my soldering and after it was all coated:
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Mine showed only a couple cracks in the tar bottom and I'm sure I could've easily patched them but I wanted to see if recoating was easy. It is, just messy and I recommend wearing nitrile or latex gloves. The LET shrinks considerably. One container will be more than enough for two coats and left overs for later wiring projects. The 3M undercoating sprayed on easily and did not shrink. Several coats of that would probably be fine. I hesitated using RTV because I thought I read somewhere that it may be slightly acidic on some metals and I didn't want to risk having my copper strips and soldered joints disappearing on me one day while driving.

If anyone else has done this differently I would like to hear about it, be is successful or not. Mine was successful (short term at least (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) ) as the car started right up and ran after installation. Will it last for the years to come? We'll certainly find out (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)
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post Sep 15 2003, 11:29 PM
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Where can one get Silicone Conformal Coating or LET or 3M Rubberized Undercoating? My board seems to have failed this weekend (had to hard wire the fuel pump to the battery to get home from 60 miles away).

Can you just soak the whole board in paint thinner or do you apply some to the underside and gently work at getting it off before applying more thinner and repeating?

Is there a reason to choose one of these materials over others? I'm thinking of how you remove it in the future should another repair become necessary.
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Air_Cooled_Nut   Rebuilding the FI relay board.   Sep 15 2003, 04:22 PM
Air_Cooled_Nut   It's working for me...here's the URL I use...   Sep 15 2003, 04:38 PM
brant   Wow... looks great. does anybody know if common g...   Sep 15 2003, 05:07 PM
TonyAKAVW   Has anyone ever thought of building a modern versi...   Sep 15 2003, 06:15 PM
Aaron Cox   i potted mine with rtv silicone. good stuff.   Sep 15 2003, 09:48 PM
jkeyzer   I used Silicone Conformal Coating. It's very ...   Sep 15 2003, 09:53 PM
dan10101   We need to do one of these boards. At least that...   Sep 15 2003, 10:11 PM
Air_Cooled_Nut   I have an old soldering pencil. Couldn't tell...   Sep 15 2003, 10:31 PM
Korijo   I would like to have mine done like this... Where ...   Sep 15 2003, 10:56 PM
jkeyzer   A higher wattage iron with a decent tip helps a lo...   Sep 15 2003, 11:16 PM
ThinAir914   Where can one get Silicone Conformal Coating or LE...   Sep 15 2003, 11:29 PM
Air_Cooled_Nut   The chemicals are readily available at any decent ...   Sep 16 2003, 12:04 AM
dan10101   Thanks for the suggestions. I'll try again to...   Sep 16 2003, 12:10 AM
Korijo   So where would I go to have this done ??   Sep 16 2003, 12:56 AM
Air_Cooled_Nut   Do it yourself! ;)   Sep 16 2003, 10:51 AM
Brad Roberts   Thank for the thread Toby.. it will go into the cl...   Sep 16 2003, 11:27 AM
Air_Cooled_Nut   Here's the image as an attachment:   Sep 16 2003, 11:29 AM
seanery   Dude, Dave has ALS, I don't think he can do i...   Sep 16 2003, 01:27 PM
Air_Cooled_Nut   Sorry, didn't know and what is "ALS"? If nobo...   Sep 16 2003, 02:01 PM
seanery   it's commonly known as Lou Gherig's diseas...   Sep 16 2003, 02:02 PM
Air_Cooled_Nut   Ah...gotcha! Hey, my sister's name is Kor...   Sep 16 2003, 02:08 PM


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