Top tip lads. carry a hair dryer in your van

[johno_uk]

Had one of those nightmare days when everything doesn't go your way, then sent on a 'quick half job' on a fri afternoon to replace a div valve on a baxi instant 105e combi. As best as I thought I'd covered the pcb cover with my dust sheet and blue roll, some drips ran down into the housing and when turning back after new valve fitted the display lights started flashing like a disco and it wasnt playing game. I ended up giving the pcb a blast with a hair dryer on low setting and sorted... Saved an expensive trip to merchants

 

[lame plumber]

got a hot air gun, dont look like a sad lad using that

 

[Billy Bob Bob]

had a hair dryer for years,sorts wet pcb,s,lame melts his:mad2:

 

[lame plumber]

just means you wave it from further away, not melted anything except the hearts of my lady customers

 

[Ermintrude]

Cringe *****^^^

 

[lame plumber]

Cringe *****^^^

dont be like that, your just jealous, those with hairdriers just give them a new coiffure

 

[Jay Jay]

Hi I fix boilers 24/7 and the best thing is clean film wrap it round pcb/front covers,hair dryer great advice,also blue roll as if leak it detecs it better then tissue or towel.u only do it once ha ha

 

[Ermintrude]

Narr do it a few times .

 

[Jay Jay]

Or put a carrier bag over pcb/front cover that helps ,when I went on a recent manufacture product training day they trainer asked what's the most important tool in an breakdown engineers tool bag and we all said a hair dryer ,he smiled and said "rather then do power point presentations let's spend the day stripping down the boilers" as all of us repair them and he wasn't expecting that sort of response.we did have a laugh about it though,great day!!

 

[townfanjon]

I always keep some visquene and gaffa tape in the van , and where possible can make a temp plastic gutter to divert wart away.
dont laugh it works

 

[the_ace]

I tend to use canned air on those moist pcb moments but think i'll ask santa for a hairdryer! :santa3:

 

[helpsy]

Could always see if Sir Alex Ferguson is free as now retired!

 

[happyflyer]

Why not take the PCB out before you start the plumbing job and any other electronics, they all have plugs.

"by failing to prepare you are preparing to fail"



Anyway what do I know I am not GSR just an old baldy, shorted sight, deaf, git, pond life me, bottom feeder

 

[MC_Bob]

Microgenus mffi is an :nono: pcb. You don't wanna remove that. I'm sure there's others.

 

[happyflyer]

Microgenus mffi is an :nono: pcb. You don't wanna remove that. I'm sure there's others.

Mircogenus sounds like a clever bit of stuff, hey Bob.

 

[mountainman]

The only pcb that I've had issues with is the 105, even took one out, put it well away from where I was working.
Double dried the housing with blue roll, refitted the board and; Buzz.
Out came the hair dryer. Lol

 

[wetdrip]

I'm just waiting on the " Which cordless hairdryer thread?" opening.

 

[casaco]

I find the best thing to use is a Henry Hoover that has two outlets one sucking the other blowing, After a few minutes the air gets warm, not hot but the pressure blows all the moisture away. They aren't cheap though.