MattRocks wrote on Yesterday, 08:36:
Trashbytes wrote on Yesterday, 04:37:
MattRocks wrote on Yesterday, 04:33:
IIRC, what worked for me was putting the case in the bath tub with washing up liquid.
If its nicotine based gunk itll need something designed to counter the nicotine, when I cleaned the house we had to use specialised cleaning agents to remove the smell after the initial clean.
Hmm.. maybe the enzymes they sell to clean vomit off carpets would work.
Oxidisers, anything like oxy clean, dish soap with oxidisers, vinegar ... now a lot of "facebook cleaning recipes" will go "Vinegar and Baking Soda!!!!" but mixed, that's just a complicated and more expensive way to use salty water on something. (Unless it's a drain clog where you put one then the other and the gas expansion does something mechanically, premixing pointless though) However, both individually can clean, and a baking soda wash AFTER vinegar will neutralise remaining acidity. But still need a good plain water rinse.
Obviously you don't want a long period of exposure to vinegar on the traces, no overnight soaks, half an hour is fine though unless you're boiling it in 20% acetic.
But you may need both an acid/oxidiser and an alkaline/soapy cleaner because the smelly parts are an alkaloid that needs taking out, and the tarry parts are a oil/fat type thing that need saponifying or dissolving. Since one is bound in the other you might need to repeat the cycle to completely remove buildup if bad.
Citric acid is an alternate to vinegar.
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.
