zauggart
Well-known member
hi there everybody
i remember reading somewhere probley on here about people having difficulty in processing keyboard silver traces . well i might have found a way to get them off very easy without burning them etc . i was in the process of testing some of my ideas and chemicals i have etc . maybe it has been mentioned before but i am so excited that i might have found a simple method for removing the traces etc i had to post it here. the other day i was out at a local gardening shop and seen a bottle of PH down with 15% nitric i asked the lady there if she knew if it had any buffers and she said she figured it was jst 15% nitric diluted with distilled water. anyways so i bought it and got it home . then i asked NOXX if it was easy to purify and he said something similar to (i wouldent reccomend it and its very dangerious) so with that being said i thought well S**T ill scrap that idea and today i was trying to think of something to do so i got out the silver traces and with my new dropper i got for $1.99 and my bottle of nitric %15% i put 1 drop of 35% of sulfuric on 1 trace and 1 drop of nitric on another and after a number of hours my conclusions were this
1. sulfuric of 35% after 9 hours there was no noticible difference in color and stayed in position even after rubbing a plastc toothpic over it a number of times and also didnt bother the plastic/mylar
2. the 15% nitric after 3 hours was incredable because when i rubbed another plastic toothpic across this trace it rubbed right off with no effort and the plastic/mylar was unchanged .
so my question is this couldent you take the 1litre of nitric and pour it in a container (plastic or glass) such as a glass cake dish then cut the plastic /mylar to fit by cutting it in half and laying it in and pouring the nitric in and letting it sit for a day or two . then after 2 days wouldent the silver traces be reduced to dust/etc and easy to remove the plastic to add more with silver traces until the 15% nitric becomes saturated and wont work anymore be loaded with silver nitrate to process . you could possibley even set it up and everytime you get a proper keyboard to scrap remove the old plastic pand toss in you new ones etc and when its saturated its done . So waddya gurus think of this idea before i try it? then i could post more of my test results for everybody
thanks
Ian
i remember reading somewhere probley on here about people having difficulty in processing keyboard silver traces . well i might have found a way to get them off very easy without burning them etc . i was in the process of testing some of my ideas and chemicals i have etc . maybe it has been mentioned before but i am so excited that i might have found a simple method for removing the traces etc i had to post it here. the other day i was out at a local gardening shop and seen a bottle of PH down with 15% nitric i asked the lady there if she knew if it had any buffers and she said she figured it was jst 15% nitric diluted with distilled water. anyways so i bought it and got it home . then i asked NOXX if it was easy to purify and he said something similar to (i wouldent reccomend it and its very dangerious) so with that being said i thought well S**T ill scrap that idea and today i was trying to think of something to do so i got out the silver traces and with my new dropper i got for $1.99 and my bottle of nitric %15% i put 1 drop of 35% of sulfuric on 1 trace and 1 drop of nitric on another and after a number of hours my conclusions were this
1. sulfuric of 35% after 9 hours there was no noticible difference in color and stayed in position even after rubbing a plastc toothpic over it a number of times and also didnt bother the plastic/mylar
2. the 15% nitric after 3 hours was incredable because when i rubbed another plastic toothpic across this trace it rubbed right off with no effort and the plastic/mylar was unchanged .
so my question is this couldent you take the 1litre of nitric and pour it in a container (plastic or glass) such as a glass cake dish then cut the plastic /mylar to fit by cutting it in half and laying it in and pouring the nitric in and letting it sit for a day or two . then after 2 days wouldent the silver traces be reduced to dust/etc and easy to remove the plastic to add more with silver traces until the 15% nitric becomes saturated and wont work anymore be loaded with silver nitrate to process . you could possibley even set it up and everytime you get a proper keyboard to scrap remove the old plastic pand toss in you new ones etc and when its saturated its done . So waddya gurus think of this idea before i try it? then i could post more of my test results for everybody
thanks
Ian
