14 May
2001
14 May
'01
12:32 p.m.
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