[RE-wrenches] Mouse pee in the SW

[Exeltech]

Hello Jay,

>  For those of us not so adventurous, how well would electrical spray Cleaner work? 

Good question.  I've never used contact/electrical cleaner for this type of task.  My guess is, it might work .. but only marginally if at all.  Cleaners are solvents intended to remove oxidation and organic films (think "oily", as in waxy buildup, etc).  Some cleaners also include a silicone or other residual lubricant, which would tend to seal in the remaining contaminents to the circuit board.  Not good.  Urine, though organic, is water-based, and may or may not dissolve in the spray cleaner.  This is why I recommended the distilled water wash, followed by the alcohol rinse.

You could try some spray cleaner for this task  and report the results to the group.    I'm aways open to adding information to my knowledge base.  :)

(Finding a cooperative mouse may be problematic .... but I'm sure you can come up with alternatives.)

Dan

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On Fri, 8/16/13, jay peltz <jay at asis.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Mouse pee in the SW
 To: "RE-wrenches" <re-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org>
 Date: Friday, August 16, 2013, 10:39 AM
 
 Hi Dan
 
 Amazing about what can be done!
 
 For those of us not so adventurous, how well would electrical spray Cleaner work?  I have used it before to clean a SW that was in a room with a leaky diesel generator. The inside of the inverter was coated in soot, which coupled with sea air, well not such a good combo. 

 It did work after the cleaning though. 
 
 Thanks
 
 Jay
 
 Peltz power
 
 
 
 
 On Aug 16, 2013, at 5:11 AM, Exeltech <exeltech at yahoo.com>
 wrote:
 
 > Bill,
 > 
 > My short answer is .. if things work after all this .. I wouldn't recommend doing anything to the circuit board after cleaning it.  Instead, I'd take steps to keep the mice from ever getting into the inverter again.
 >