wax in a usb port....

[rise]

anyway to get it out?

i have a lian li with top mounted usb/firewire and my son left a candleburning on top. the wax dripped into a usb port.

any easy way to remove it?

 

[Tarrant64]

Originally posted by: rise
anyway to get it out?

i have a lian li with top mounted usb/firewire and my son left a candleburning on top. the wax dripped into a usb port.

any easy way to remove it?

qtip with alcohol?

 

[AmberClad]

Turn it upside down and blowing on it with a hairdryer?

 

[Amaroque]

Electrical contact cleaner should melt it rite off. I'd turn the case upside down, and douse it liberally (with it unplugged, of course).

Warning: Electrical contact cleaner can melt some plastics.

 

[rise]

welp, upon further inspection, it's the 1394.

maybe the hair dryer is the best bet...

 

[AmberClad]

Yep, I use my hairdryer when I'm sleeving cables and want to finish the ends neatly with heat shrink tubing. So I assume it's not going to hurt the connectors.

 

[0roo0roo]

elbow grease and qtips and stuff. make him do it

 

[Jiggz]

Scrape off as much as you can using a thin flat tip jewelers' screw driver. Then place it upside down and use the hair dryer. Of course, with the unit unplugged.