" There's another touchscreen problem. Everyone's hands are all covered in
seawater residue, booze and grease from a lot of sources aboard the boat.
There's a sign I made with the label maker on the Raymarine display and
computer...."This is NOT a touchscreen."....trying to keep them from using
their greasy finger to point out something. It still gets hard to read
after a day offshore....(sigh)

I can imagine how it would look at the end of a day with the duty watch
having to push the image buttons with his greasy fingers.

Actually they clean up pretty well. At least the shop ELO does. Doing
double duty controlling the router table and the mill it gets grease and
cutting oil finger prints regularly. A little Windex on a dedicated shammy
cleans it right up. You do have to be careful about epoxy and PU glue
though. :-0 I have caught myself a couple of times about to hit the tool
change button with sticky fingers. I have had to adopt a policy of never
doing any glue ups while waiting for the router to do its thing.

--
Glenn Ashmore

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