Motherboards

Learn how to clean the motherboards down too. You have to remove excess steel, Aluminium heatsinks, Battery's.
I remove the little jumper jacks and the Brass plug screws too.



I also wash the boards in a warm, slightly soapy, with some Meths (denatured ethanol) added for 'bite', water. (For a while I diverted the hot waste water from my dishwasher, lol) and dry them. I do spray the boards as soon as I open the computer tonkill germs and keep the dust down.
Once I accidently inhaled a bit of loose dust from the computer and it got stuck in my throat, it stayed there for months.....
I started wondering just what was in that dust, every spec of dust, germs and tar filled some that that computer ever came in contact with in the rooms it was in..... Ugh, spray it as soon as you see it!
Power supply's get a dunking in the water.
Actually, the gunk on the boards just rolls up into balls and rinses off, its easy and the boards are as clean as new boards.

Removing the battery's is very very important, its a shipping hazard and if they find one battery it can cost you the whole load, plus.
Some Apple Motherboards, and others, have a solid Lithium battery and it looks very similar to a capacitor.

Originally Posted by eesakiwi

Learn how to clean the motherboards down too. You have to remove excess steel, Aluminium heatsinks, Battery's.
I remove the little jumper jacks and the Brass plug screws too.

I also wash the boards in a warm, slightly soapy, with some Meths (denatured ethanol) added for 'bite', water. (For a while I diverted the hot waste water from my dishwasher, lol) and dry them. I do spray the boards as soon as I open the computer tonkill germs and keep the dust down.
Once I accidently inhaled a bit of loose dust from the computer and it got stuck in my throat, it stayed there for months.....
I started wondering just what was in that dust, every spec of dust, germs and tar filled some that that computer ever came in contact with in the rooms it was in..... Ugh, spray it as soon as you see it!
Power supply's get a dunking in the water.
Actually, the gunk on the boards just rolls up into balls and rinses off, its easy and the boards are as clean as new boards.

Removing the battery's is very very important, its a shipping hazard and if they find one battery it can cost you the whole load, plus.
Some Apple Motherboards, and others, have a solid Lithium battery and it looks very similar to a capacitor.

Thanks. I haven't washed anything that i got for scrap so i can see why you would if your doing computers all day long. I normally take the aluminum heat sinks and battery off. And when theres plastic around the cpu area i take that off as well. Do you have to take off the reciever ends that the wires plug into when the computers whole or no just leave em be?

The only things I remove are the heatsink, fan, and any batteries. No complants or deductions thus far from forum buyers.

Originally Posted by eesakiwi

Learn how to clean the motherboards down too. You have to remove excess steel, Aluminium heatsinks, Battery's.
I remove the little jumper jacks and the Brass plug screws too.

I also wash the boards in a warm, slightly soapy, with some Meths (denatured ethanol) added for 'bite', water. (For a while I diverted the hot waste water from my dishwasher, lol) and dry them. I do spray the boards as soon as I open the computer tonkill germs and keep the dust down.
Once I accidently inhaled a bit of loose dust from the computer and it got stuck in my throat, it stayed there for months.....
I started wondering just what was in that dust, every spec of dust, germs and tar filled some that that computer ever came in contact with in the rooms it was in..... Ugh, spray it as soon as you see it!
Power supply's get a dunking in the water.
Actually, the gunk on the boards just rolls up into balls and rinses off, its easy and the boards are as clean as new boards.

Removing the battery's is very very important, its a shipping hazard and if they find one battery it can cost you the whole load, plus.
Some Apple Motherboards, and others, have a solid Lithium battery and it looks very similar to a capacitor.

Tell me about it. I'm surprised I haven't picked up Hanta virus from all of the mouse turds.