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Best cleaner for removing resin from electronics (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/trees@lemmy.world
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I've got an older PC that I'm upgrading and going to turn into a NAS for my house, and the poor thing spent YEARS as the living room PC in a house full of stoners. Every surface is slightly amber and sticky. Any good cleaners I can use to remove it all without damaging the electronics?

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[–] 12 points 6 months ago (4 children)

So, get a tub big enough to fit your while computer in, and fill it about half way with rubbing alcohol and a pound of salt. Set your computer in, close the lid tight, and shake it like hell until it's clean.

This is a joke. Please don't do this to your PC.

Works great on glass pipes though.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

    Better for glass pipes is a mixture of rubbing alcohol (the higher percentage the better) and salt. You want the salt to form a paste so not too much rubbing alcohol. Then you shake the shit out of your pipe for about 3-5 minutes then rinse out the alcohol and salt with some warm water. Et voila you have a shiny clean pipe. Sometimes you might need to do a second scrubbing to get anything left over but usually the first go is good enough. After that I hit the whole thing with bleach just so nothing funky grows in the water and then one more rinse and my dab rig looks brand new.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    True, but what works even better than THAT, is mixing rubbing alcohol and salt and shaking your pipe in it.

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