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First post, by Half-Saint

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I went to the sorting center today and picked up three complete systems along with two ATX socket 7 moterboards (ASUS SP97-VX and MSI MS5172). Also got two AGP video cards, an ATI 9200 and a KYRO II STG4500. I got all of this literally from the dumpster...

First system is an AMD 386SX-25, 2MB RAM, defective hard drive, hercules video
Second system is a Pentium 120, VX motherboard, HOUSTON battery/RTC..
Third system is a Cyrix 486DX2, 20MB RAM, defective hard drive, Yamaha OPL sound card, S3 VLB VGA, VLB IDE controller...

Everything works except for the hard drives. The 486 system has a leaky barrel battery - need to take care of that.

How do you clean up the damage?

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Reply 1 of 2, by SquallStrife

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Vinegar to neutralise the corrosive material (Acidic vinegar because the battery stuff is highly alkaline), then isopropyl alcohol to clean it off.

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Reply 2 of 2, by socram8888

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Hydrogen peroxide does a good job at decoloring those brownish plastics from the 5 1/4 floppy drives.

About the leaky battery, isopropylic alcohol evaporates faster than others and don't leave any kind of residue, so it is usually used in cameras to clean the CCDs, but here any kind of alcohol should work. If you use the standard alcohol you use to clean injuries, wait until it dries, as these aren't 100% alcohol and contain some water to reduce its volume.

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