Motherboard Cleaning: Using Denatured Alcohol or Extraction Gasoline - Safe or Damaging?

Question

Hello, I wanted to ask what to clean a dirty motherboard with. Will denatured alcohol or extraction gasoline damage the equipment?

K!lleR · Answer

Brush quite wide, not too big, or compressed air. If the fluid is just isopropanol.

Xylometazolin! · Answer

Compressed air will probably be the safest.

mat_ed · Answer

Read clearly what the author wrote. He means washing the motherboard, and as far as I know, it will not wash the motherboard with compressed air. Well, unless you've seen compressed air that is used to wash the motherboard, provide the link - I'll be happy to see it.

jankolo · Answer

Basic question: what is the disc dirty with?

Xylometazolin! · Answer

And what are these emotions for? I got it wrong and that's it, I'm only human. When it comes to literal washing, as someone has already written - isopropanol.

warczyk_nbr · Answer

Hello. I washed my CD with a damp cloth ... Then I waited for it to dry very well and plugged it in. Regards.

jag61 · Answer

ZULOK - and then what a colleague wants to do YES to wash the motherboard ??

Zulok · Answer

I poured coffee with cream over the CD and now it is all dirty and a bit greasy.

warczyk_nbr · Answer

Zulok - what you don't have a computer case?

jankolo · Answer

1. Thorough washing in distilled water (with a brush);
2. Drying;
3. Washing in isopropanol or sprinkling the plate thoroughly with isopropanol on both sides (we do not regret isopropanol, it should drip off it);
4. Thorough final drying;

Zulok · Answer

warczyk_nbr I just had the disc disconnected. And extraction gasoline would not be suitable, because I do not even know where to buy this isopropanol?

Xylometazolin! · Answer

Isopropanol can be purchased from most electronics stores.

Buczusiek · Answer

You can buy isopropanol without any problems on Allegro. Chemical stores are another option, they should have. And in the latter case, electronics stores.

K!lleR · Answer

How about oil? Isopropanol 1 / L costs about PLN 10.00 I recently bought 5 / L on the Allegro for a total of 45.00 PLN.

warczyk_nbr · Answer

so it will be left to clean the disc with Isopropanol, and a soft brush would also be useful.

jag61 · Answer

Borrow brush from a friend / sister / mother / wife (delete as appropriate ) - seriously - pay special attention when washing (that is - do it very carefully) on places with small gaps between elements / leads - that there is nothing superfluous left.

chris061 · Answer

Can a flooded plate be cleaned with colorless denatured alcohol? I am going to clean it, but I do not know if I can use this product? With a brush? I will add that the laptop motherboard.

jag61 · Answer

Theoretically yes - although I would be careful - denatured alcohol is not pure spirit / alcohol, it leaves a sediment (after washing with denatured alcohol, I washed / rinsed in food spirit). Of course, propanol would be the best (maybe you would consider whether it is better to buy a liter of propanol - at least through POCh)

chris061 · Answer

But I'd better buy propanol and leave the denatured alcohol to clean other things. Thanks for the answer

jag61 · Answer

I would like to remind you that propanol, like alcohol - is flammable - flammability class 2 (same as explosiveness) - moreover, see also on Wiki

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