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Best and safest way to clean up PCB's and Monitors?

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Wyluli:
What is the best and safest way to clean up dust and grime covered PCB's without damaging them? 
How the heck do you guys get them so clean?

Also, what is the best way to clean up all the circuit boards etc..around an arcade monitor?  It's a dusty mess around the back of the monitor and I'd like to clean it up really nice but I want to make sure I'm not going to accidently ruin anything.  (or fry myself)

I know you can blow some stuff off with canned air, but this doesn't remove nearly everything and I'd like to get it as clean as possible.  So, short of giving it a bath in soapy water and scrubbing it off with a sponge, what should I use?   ;D

tommy:
I take some qtips and go threw the board a few times till clean

Wyluli:

--- Quote from: tommy on February 28, 2005, 07:38:41 pm ---I take some qtips and go threw the board a few times till clean

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Hey man, you followin me around?   ;)
Q-tips huh, so you just basically wipe every thing down with a dry Q-tip?  Doesn't hurt anything.  I've been thinking about this monitor stuff way to long, the other night I had a nightmare about discharging the arcade monitor.....  :o

SirPoonga:
Clean the PCB boards with slightly damp non-static cloth and isopropyl alcohol (non-conductive).  That's how I cleaned computers parts while working at IBM.

But not on the electronics of the monitor.  Unless you know how to safely discharge a monitor I wouldn't do it.

Wyluli:

--- Quote from: SirPoonga on March 01, 2005, 02:43:40 pm ---Clean the PCB boards with slightly damp non-static cloth and isopropyl alcohol (non-conductive).
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