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cigarette smoke of ages - de-odouring arcade hardware

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Akuma:

Hello everyone.

To get straight to the point - I recently bought a Sega Naomi 2 motherboard and it horribly smells like cigarette smoke (arcades must be so unhealthy!). I already cleaned the insides of the housing from some disgusting, pure black dust - especially the areas surrounding the main fan and the two secondary fans where heavily covered. Now, does anyone have an idea how to minimize the stench of this thing? It smells like an ashtray! Do things like this febreeze spray work? Any chance to clean the pcb at all or can only the plastic housing be cleaned?

HaRuMaN:

I would probably mix a dilute (mild)  bleach solution and wipe down the insides...  after that, maybe put some open boxes of baking soda inside to help absorb the odors.

Akuma:

You just gave me an idea! I remeber deodourizing my fridge with lemon halfs... I will test it inside - if it doesn't distort the plastic's colour, I can use it outside aswell : )

Malenko:

with all my cabs (all wood) I strip them down, clean with bleach water then seal it with KILZ primer

Green Giant:

Do it arabian style and pour a bottle of cheap cologne on it every week.

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