Whats this green substance?

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#1 12 years ago

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pinwizard1

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Baltimore, MD

13y 30,650 89 3

I have been working on my big game for some time now, and thanks to your suggestions and a really nice friend I met at eh Pinball Museum in Baltimore. I have finally been able to figure out that it seems to be shorting due to burnt out links under the PF. I looked and one was burnt and another had this weird green liquid on it??? I have never seen anything like it before. Here are some photos of it. I will order some new plastics for the wires and redo them hopefully it will solve my problem.

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#2 12 years ago

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shock_me

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14y 71,800 2,490

Corrosion?

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#3 12 years ago

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Mystic Krewe

New Orleans, LA

12y 69,550 2,887

Probably from the copper in the wire.

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#4 12 years ago

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hawkeye11

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Arvada, CO

14y 70,900 1,217 16 64

Not sure, but I wouldn't touch it!!

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#5 12 years ago

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Whridlsoncestood

The Sanctum

Meriden, CT

12y 98,800 4,119 21 14 1

Copper corrosion deffinetly isn't that color green. Very odd.

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#6 12 years ago

RWH

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Norwood, OH

13y 132K 9,925 2 10

Is that some type of electrical contact enhancer??

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#7 12 years ago

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dlbuller

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12y 30,400 429

It's a plasticizer. It's dioctyl phthalate reacting with the copper. Used a lot on 80s connectors. Happens a lot at my work with old test fixtures.

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#9 12 years ago

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mystic

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Nashville, TN

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Quoted from dlbuller:
It's a plasticizer. It's dioctyl phthalate reacting with the copper. Used a lot on 80s connectors. Happens a lot at my work with old test fixtures.

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