> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan B. Pearce [SMTP:A.B.Pearce@RL.AC.UK]
> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 9:09 AM
> To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      Re: [EE]: Beeswax Encapsulation
>
> >I remember trying encapsulation with candlewax once,
> >and found slight corrosion of some metals.  Can you
> >place your entire PCB in it or should you coat with
> >something else first?
>
> I would hope beeswax is non-corrosive - after all bees keep honey in it,
> and we
> extract the honey to eat .......
>
How many of us guzzle Coke?  You don't want that stuff on your PCB's believe
me.  Not everything that is fine for us to eat is non-corrosive to other
materials.  Don't forget we have some fairly corrosive stuff in our stomachs
anyway.

Hmm...enough of that, far too early on a Monday morning to be thinking of
the contents of peoples stomachs...

Mike

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