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wrote:wrote:I spray it down with Freon-TF.
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It's made to clean circuit boards.. non-toxic.
wrote:wrote:I spray it down with Freon-TF.
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It's made to clean circuit boards.. non-toxic.
Unless the board has obviously terrible things on it like rat piss and whatnot, I will just carefully wipe it down. I have washed hardware, but they were near unredeemable otherwise.
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Here's a board I cleaned recently.
I could probably have had cleaned it with paper towels, but it would have been quite a long task and it wouldn't have looked as good as this after.
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I might make a video or a detailed guide with pictures using my process. 🤣
phineas and ferb tooth brush when my son got a new one and some tap water and dawn dish soap. let dry a couple days while flipping around to let water out. never a single issue.
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