Howto: Remove protective paint from EEPROM chip

[Raptor58559]

Hi,
I am putting this out here for anyone who might come across that paint.


This is a 2009 Mitsubishi Lancer gauge cluster which had that blue paint on the EEPROM.
You wouldn’t be able to read trough it.
It comes off easily with a cotton swab and nailpolish remover.
Mine was with acetone and it took about 2 minutes of scrubbing for each side.


Enjoy,
Michael

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[Etownbrawler]

Those lancer clusters you don't even need to take them apart or mess with eeprom. Just take off back cover and you will see 6 round copper pads in a strait line ,use a 6 pin pogo pin adapter for Yazaki clusters or you can solder wires direct and do it that way . . From left to right pins are 8 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 and the eeprom is a 93c86

[rafal]

to remove blue point - i am using my wife's nail cleaner ;)

[Ozmr97]

Acetone works 100%