vomlehn@ut-ngp.ARPA (03/08/84)
You should be careful when using one of those cold-in-a-can products to isolate heat-sensitive chips. Apparently someone took a look at these things and discovered that suddenly cooling down a hot chip can cause it to fail. This is not entirely suprising when you consider what happens when you put a hot glass jar into cold water; it cracks. I don't know if this person came up with actual figures for these cold- induced failures, but if you notice your board fails in a different way after cooling down a chip it may be that you now have TWO defective chips.