How to clean old electronic equipment

[ixon]

Hi Groups,

I'm not sure this is appropriate for this group. I just got one
vintage HP Function generator. It produce very bad odor all around. I
tracked the source of this to be from bad NI-CD batteries leakage. I
tried clean it with few type of the cleaner spray I have but it still
smell very bad. It seem that the odor stick very well with the
vinyl.

Thanks,
Ixon

 

[Eeyore]

ixon wrote:

Hi Groups,

I'm not sure this is appropriate for this group. I just got one
vintage HP Function generator. It produce very bad odor all around. I
tracked the source of this to be from bad NI-CD batteries leakage. I
tried clean it with few type of the cleaner spray I have but it still
smell very bad.

The best cleaner is water, possibly with some alcohol content too. If it was a
bad leak you may need to get it quite wet to remove all the crud but be be
careful where the dirty water goes because it can then re-contaminate other
bits. Lots of flowing water is sometimes best so as to keep the nasty chemicals
you're removing well diluted.

Graham