15 May
2001
15 May
'01
12:59 a.m.
I wonder if you could use ozone to oxidize the crud in it? Perhaps
you can set the open case on top of a laser printer or something else that
generates ozone. Ozone oxidizes the same way that chlorine does but it
doesn't bleach things out or smell the way that chlorine does. As for
cleaning the debris out, I would take the case to one of the high powered
spray car washes. It may take a while to dry all the water out of all the
cracks and crevices afterwards! A vaccuum oven is great for drying things
like that.
Joe
At 12:32 AM 5/15/01 +0000, you wrote:
From:
Jim Strickland <jim(a)calico.litterbox.com>
Subject: Re: destinking the computers.
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 22:13:54 -0600 (MDT)
Reply-to: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
In my experience musty smells like something is
growing in something else
can be dealt with with rite guard. No kidding, it's mostly
alcohol. Mind
you
I haven't tried this with electronics, this
was how I dealt with the heater
in my VW smelling like mildew after the car got filled with water in a
flood.
But a deoderant like riteguard is, after all, an
anti-bacterial with a
fragrence.
Mind that you don't get the antipersperant
kind - aluminum salts aren't
going
to help anything and I suspect they'll
conduct...
Alcohol do very little to dislodge junk and only kills bugs and
mildew but the remains stays there and still smell.
Even the windex help very little it's consumer grade. Very weak.
What I'm looking for is real thing that oxidizes the stink and get
all the dirt and junk floating out of hidden cravities with a flush.
10 years ago I used freon spray once on several cards out of a one
computer before putting that computer into friend's home was spray it
down with freon stuff. Amazing stuff, icky stuff simply slides off
leaving shiny boards like new, too bad it's not good to hole and it's
banned.
That one would do *perfectly* like mine.
Cheers,
Wizard