Broken large ceramic Rs in combos

No, as I said, it set flexible just like bathroom sealer. It was 'clear' (cloudy) rather than white, and stuck to the surface of the board or the components so strongly that it was almost impossible to ever get off. I actually did manage to repair a couple of boards by first cutting through the stuff with a scalpel, which was quite easy apart from the silicone rubber 'drag' on the blade, and then painstakingly picking it away with tweezers.

I've just looked it up. It was Dow Corning Silastic 734, I think, although it does say that it does release acetic acid on contact with moisture in the air, so I might be wrong remembering that it didn't. It's been a few years ago now.

Arfa

Silicon is listed as a nonmetallic element. I thought I heard different so I looked it up.

If so, it isn't obvious from the post I saw.

In most of the world actually.

Graham

No, it isn't, you dumb ASS. There are all kinds of graph paper, including logarithmic graphs. How about a Smith Chart? I suppose you think that is a metric graph? The common linear types are rarely used, these days. I have to special order it from a lot of office supply places, but I can print a lot of technical graph paper from cheap software, none that is metric.

Both of these would obviously not be in linear increments so I'm surprised you even mention them.

Do you really imagine I've never seen log graph paper ? N Cook didn't use it did he ?

My point is quite simply that anyone who assumes inches are the reference dimension of choice these days is simply kidding themselves.

There are only 3 countries in the world today still using inches and 2 of them don't even fit the description of being 'modern civilised nations'. It's could be argued that the third example only marginally qualifies for that description too.

Graham

Why? You make a blanket statement about ALL graph paper, and ignore that there is more than one type, because it doesn't fit into your line of anti American bullshit.

Sure you have, and I'm sure that you've used it when you're out of toilet paper.

He didn't say one way or the other, did he? That makes your point moot, as usual, donkey boy.

No, it is another of your usual anti American bullshit posts.

You only "marginally qualify" as having a mind. Why are you trolling the repair newsgroup? Aren't you getting enough abuse of the other electronics newsgroups?

It's a fact.

Get over it.

Graham

Its Eeyore who has the problem. Everything American is bad, according to the demented donkey.

Yawn. Get over yourself.