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| Alex Eisenhut:
What could this be? This weird growth on just the one pin of a socket... The PCB is for a disk drive for a Commodore 64. Indoor stuff. The board looks fine. Just the ONE pin on the ONE socketed 74LS ... Is it a tardigrade? Or a new kind of mushroom? |
| amyk:
Looks like dried battery electrolyte - maybe from a previous minor leak? |
| Cerebus:
Tin whiskers? Certainly looks like them, and electro tin plate isn't uncommon on older sockets. |
| ChristofferB:
I don't think it's electrolyte leakage. The socket surface below looks shiny, and since there is almost certainly copper and/or nickel present, corrosion damage would have a green/blue tint. --- Quote from: Cerebus on December 31, 2019, 01:35:37 am ---Tin whiskers? Certainly looks like them, and electro tin plate isn't uncommon on older sockets. --- End quote --- I agree, maybe it's not tin whiskers from the socket, but from whatever DIP IC that was in it. |
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