I’ll be straight with it. I’m a smoker, I smoke inside, I have a PC that is also inside. I want to clean my PC thoroughly to buy it a few more years. I know about the q tip method, and the compressed air, and general methods of cleaning out gunk and junk from PC parts. But this boy is way too gunked up for a regular cleaning. So, I reckon, the easiest way to clean it is to dunk the dirtiest parts in a bath of isopropyl alcohol. I was considering acetone at first, but it’s way too strong of a solvent, and alcohol should be better at dissolving organic residues. Is this a good idea?

I hereby submit this query to the council, and await judgement.

  • radiouser@crazypeople.online
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    12 hours ago

    Won’t it just evaporate super quickly? I’m sure I left the cap off some isopropyl alcohol once and when I came back to it half the bottle hand gone! I say no.

    • Young_Gilgamesh@lemmy.worldOP
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      11 hours ago

      If it was acetone I would believe it. Were you alone? Are you sure nobody drank it? Half a litre of alcohol won’t evaporate in just a few minutes from a bottle. Evaporation is related to surface area and temperature. So unless it was 40 Celsius or the thing was in an open container (not bottle) then it would literally be impossible. Unless it was for several hours, but it sounds like you just left it for a couple minutes.