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  • itoanas
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    • Nov 2025
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    Question storing electronics

    Storing electronic devices inside cardboard boxes (like shoe boxes) along with newspapers, office paper, or A4 paper – will the cardboard and these papers release acidic fumes that corrode the PCB and the connections of the devices?

    I read something about these materials having some kind of acid in their composition.
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    • stj
      Great Sage 齊天大聖
      • Dec 2009
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      • Albion
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      no - not that i know of, but put stuff in bags to avoid the print potentially transfering to the items
      more importantly:
      NEVER put cables against plastic or poystyrene, they will slowly melt it because the chemical that makes cables soft slowly leaches out.
      i have seen lots of old stuff like games consoles with big melted area's where they where pressing against a cable in the box.
      thats why when you buy new electronics the cables are bagged!

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        • SMDFlea
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          • Jan 2018
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          Originally posted by itoanas
          Storing electronic devices inside cardboard boxes (like shoe boxes) along with newspapers, office paper, or A4 paper – will the cardboard and these papers release acidic fumes that corrode the PCB and the connections of the devices?

          I read something about these materials having some kind of acid in their composition.
          Troll. You`ve been spamming forums again.

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