28 Jul
2015
28 Jul
'15
3:40 p.m.
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 06:18:18PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
| I remember I use to be able to find | little tubes of acetone to clean parts. I guess a trip to Active | Surplus might find something similar, but I sure don't want to store | even a litre of acetone at my place, just to use a couple of | tablespoons of it now.
Acetone used to be available as nail-polish remover. Small amounts. In drug stores.
My very few run-ins with cleaning gunk off CPUs and heat sinks involved paper towels, finger nails, and elbow grease.
WD40 works also. Accidental discovery, while working on a laptop fan. -- William