Hardware on carpets!

[Harrison]

What is it recently with hardware being shown on carpet?

In a lot of eBay sales, and even in some sales on Amibay, I've seen people selling hardware with images of it showing it sitting on carpet. This includes PCBs, PCI cards, Zorro cards, motherboards... etc.

And on Youtube I've seen some videos of people demonstrating repairs or how to dismantle and fix items, and they are working on a carpet.

Haven't these people ever heard of static electricity and what it can do to electronics? :double

 

[BLTCON0]

Apparently not...

 

[r0jaws]

Apparently, some nutter on here even cleans his motherboards in a dishwasher!
Generally I work on a nice wooden table and save the playtime with balloons and cats until after I've finished a job.

 

[thecellartroll]

I have 4 blue carpet tiles that I like to photograph whole machines on, as its a nice, plain uniform background. No way I'm going to lay a bare PCB on one though :nuts:

Static electricity aside, I cannot imagine a less suitable surface for repairing devices either. Pins getting caught up in fibres, solder splats and soldering iron burns.

 

[stephen202]

I just can't get over the fact that someone puts a console/ motherboard in the dish washer:nuts:

 

[fitzsteve]

I wash Keyboards in the shower

 

[WonkeyDonkey]

Well Ive been kinda guilty of the original infraction a little bit.

A few components from an A530 I currently have stripped down; they were snapped on my wool living room carpet.

 

[geminister]

I just can't get over the fact that someone puts a console/ motherboard in the dish washer:nuts:

Why not? As long as you make sure you get the water off before it dries there's not going to be any problem with that approach. There are lots of guides on how to do it on Youtube.

 

[r0jaws]

I just can't get over the fact that someone puts a console/ motherboard in the dish washer:nuts:

It's Zetr0, and he gets good results. Wouldn't try a hot wash with a Finish powerball though.

 

[Gouldin]

I do pics of computers on carpet, why not? It's only a plastic case, not gonna harm it.

I don't do exposed components directly onto carpets, that'd be bad, but so long as someone puts an antistatic bag under said component, again, see no issue with it

Slightly OT. Has ayone ever damaged themselves a component via static electricity?
I've worked on PC's and tech in general since around 1998, not once have I broken anything with static.

 

[fitzsteve]

Oh no! It's a Cyberstorm PPC on the Carpet

 

[Gouldin]

You've got loads of cyberstorms spare, you can afford to leave 'em on the carpet

 

[johnim]

is that your dead 1 steve

i put hardware on the carpet i did today my 3 main pcs needed a dust out i completely stripped them and all working fine still

 

[ChrisUnionNJ]

I just can't get over the fact that someone puts a console/ motherboard in the dish washer:nuts:

It's Zetr0, and he gets good results. Wouldn't try a hot wash with a Finish powerball though.

I have a PC from work I am going to test the dishwasher method it had some mice living in it..

Told him no promises just a test so I can really see what the mice have
done if it's fixable he saves money if not he has to get a refurbished PC.

Yeah and I hate working on the carpet but sometimes ya have to but
I always lay down some cardboard..

 

[fitzsteve]

Yeah it's the dead one, I always work on my wooden desk or antistatic mat

CPLD is likely the dead component and cannot be repaired (unless you have a spare CPLD kicking around!)

I'm using it as a Paperweight now

@Gouldin, since I sold my other CSPPC (was gambling on this one being fixed/upgraded) I have no working CSPPC in my collection, the one you saw at Amimeet was sold

I should have waited until Stan confirmed the repair/upgrade but I needed the funds to pay for (half of) a Holiday to Antigua I'd booked for Sarahs Birthday, give you an idea what this paperwight is worth when working oh:

 

[Gouldin]

Ouch, sorry to hear that mate, still, gotta be worthwhile to keep the other half happy

 

[fitzsteve]

Ouch, sorry to hear that mate, still, gotta be worthwhile to keep the other half happy

It's ok, you win some and loose some in this Retr0 game

And yeah, Mrs Fitz is very much looking forward to going here:

http://www.grandpineapple.co.uk/

It's her 30th this yeah hence the outrageous gift!

BTW! Please don't put your expensive hardware on the carpet, use an antistatic mat!

 

[Gouldin]

Looks rather nice, though doubt it'll be as sunny as Devon

 

[ShambleS1980]

prety sure all my pics will have been shot either on wooden table or wooden floor..

Not a big carpet fan.. they get to dirty and make me ESD stuff when i forget to grab my little wrist do dah or forget to ground it "or it pops off the crocodile clip"

I have seen pics of stuff on beds. carpets.. I wouldnt be suprized to see a video of some one rubbing a baloon on theiere heads whilst draging theire feer in socks repetedly and quickly up and down a carpeted room before heading over to a steel work tabble thats grounded with theiere pcbs on it then pointing directly at an IC on the board saying "this is that one that always ends up dead i dont know why"

hmm..

On my 30th i bought my self a cake
Oh.. and my wife came back from california after visiting her parents..
So i guess thats a good gift...
Wait.. she went to america, i stayed at home then she came back.. Whos damn birthday was it lol. "or was that my 31st.."

I do pics of computers on carpet, why not? It's only a plastic case, not gonna harm it.

I don't do exposed components directly onto carpets, that'd be bad, but so long as someone puts an antistatic bag under said component, again, see no issue with it :-D

Slightly OT. Has ayone ever damaged themselves a component via static electricity?
I've worked on PC's and tech in general since around 1998, not once have I broken anything with static.

I think.. "i stress think" I zapperd an 8600 once..
it was working i did some general cleaning pc strip down excetera..
carpet in my bedroom..
It was on a wooden side board but i was in socks. I think whem i put the card in the case it grounded and i discharged, and the ram took the brunt of it..

sufice to say it was messed up after that.. i managed to diagnose the ram as being to blame, and then i summized that i must have been the cause..

 

[rkauer]

I just can't get over the fact that someone puts a console/ motherboard in the dish washer:nuts:

I put dusty/grimy boards in the dishwasher, too.

Perfect results, just don't use soap (or just a very little) nor use hot water cycles. Cool cycle up to 50°C and that's it.
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Science bit:

After, some IPA to get the irrational bits out of the boards, then let a couple of days to dry.

As most people know, irrational bits gets wandering over old boards and breeds over it, reducing the performance until the board stops working.

When you pour some alcohol over the board, the irrational bits go drunk, then they can be washed out from board, or they even fall by themselves, completely wasted.:drinkin: