[plug] [OT] CPU plate cleaning

Chris Caston caston at arach.net.au
Mon May 10 22:25:13 WST 2004


On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 21:32, James Devenish wrote:

> > Cool. Any particular purity?
> 
> (Although I could be disastrously wrong...) I would be pretty amused if
> you had any practical choice in the matter, given that I imagine you're
> going to pick a product off a retail shelf rather than order litres of
> analytic reagent, for example. And, a lot of the retail IPA claims
> pretty high purity anyway. I'd be incredibly surprised if your external
> cleaning application required you to know what impurities are present.
> More to the point, people sometimes use a diluent (e.g. water) that
> itself is likely to be worse than the isopropanol. But, anyway, when
> people have plain isopropanol (i.e. not pre-mixed with anything), I
> think most people would go ahead and use it straight away ("suck it and
> see"). There are plenty of people who use IPA like water with no ill
> effects (well...don't bother drinking it). I know your question is
> genuine, and it deserves a proper answer, but I'd be surprised if the
> answer was something other than "don't worry about the purity".
> 

Thanks James,

I have a "buy everything wholesale" complex these days but you can
pick-up 90% at the chemist which is probably fine when you're like me
and only need a dab.

The reason I ask is because someone suggested* using roughly 50%
solution for cleaning LCD monitors. 

*Don't hold me to it I've never tried it.
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thanks,

Chris Caston
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