where to get 90% alcohol swabs?

[imported_Mike]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
why are you changing the heat sink in a dell? those things are very well engineered to NOT overheat.

anyway, a bottle of 91% is $0.50 at my local HEB and the no-name cotton swabs were $1, you're getting ripped off.

the P4 is coming out of that sh!tty case & crapy mobo.

the P4 is now clean! i used some plastic to get most of it off, then i used the 70% swabs to wipe off completely, then i used a can of air to dry & dispose of any fiber that might have been there.

 

[MiExStacY]

local walgreens has it

 

[mrzed]

Originally posted by: wacki
For a swab I used an old T-shirt, thats it.

Yup. Use alcohol or acetone and a lint free wipe. Q-tips are a bad idea, they will likely leave fibres on the surface.

Other examples of lint free include:

Lens tissues for cameras, coffee filters (I use these to good results), any clean, well used cotton.

I would recommend NOT using nail polish remover. It may not make much difference, but it is basically just acetone with a bunch of perfumes and dyes added. Why use the impurities too?

If you clean it really well with 99% alcohol, no need to bother drying. By the time you get it all ready to reinstall, it will have evaporated.

 

[kaizersose]

acetone actually does a better job of cleaning goo that does alcohol, but it is also more corrosive. i work in a composite lab and we use acetone to clean vinyl ester up all the time. you can just check the back of the bottle, but i am pretty sure nail polish removers are quite pure (we use industrial acetone though).

 

[WinkOsmosis]

I've use 90% alcohol and napkins. I've had to use 70% and it worked fine. For a while I had 99%. I don't see why you are using cue tips... Fragments of cotton comes off cue tips. Nothing comes off napkins.