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Offline Alex EisenhutTopic starter

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Foaming electronics-safe spray cleaner
« on: May 05, 2024, 06:42:44 pm »
as seen here
https://youtu.be/4dSBP1dQSdo?t=433
I have some higher end Wurth glass cleaner, designed to remove bugs from windshields, that foams up and dissolves like that but I don't think it's safe to use on electronics.
What's that blue can?
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Re: Foaming electronics-safe spray cleaner
« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2024, 10:08:51 pm »
I think it's Servisol Foam 30, or something like that. However, I also think it's out of production now. There are some similar things from other vendors, though.
 

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Re: Foaming electronics-safe spray cleaner
« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2024, 10:36:32 pm »
OK thanks.
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Re: Foaming electronics-safe spray cleaner
« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2024, 05:02:51 am »
as seen here
https://youtu.be/4dSBP1dQSdo?t=433
I have some higher end Wurth glass cleaner, designed to remove bugs from windshields, that foams up and dissolves like that but I don't think it's safe to use on electronics.
What's that blue can?

Damn that looks like it would make my life MUCH easier sometimes
 

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Re: Foaming electronics-safe spray cleaner
« Reply #4 on: May 06, 2024, 08:48:32 am »
I think it's Servisol Foam 30, or something like that. However, I also think it's out of production now. There are some similar things from other vendors, though.

Servisol were a brand of Ambersil, both are now part of CRC, the most recent safety data sheets I can find, seem to suggest Ambersil Amberclens (edit: still available) & Servisol 30 are the same product.

David
« Last Edit: May 07, 2024, 01:51:42 pm by factory »
 
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Re: Foaming electronics-safe spray cleaner
« Reply #5 on: May 06, 2024, 01:29:42 pm »
I was hoping to make cleaning my vintage smoker's CRT a bit easier, everything's covered in dusty greasy stuff. Even the screws that keep the case together have brown heads... :palm:
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Re: Foaming electronics-safe spray cleaner
« Reply #6 on: May 06, 2024, 06:38:39 pm »
How about a water-based flux remover?  They are generally "non-ionic."  I use diluted acrylic floor wax remove -- same basic composition with a glycol ether.
 

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Re: Foaming electronics-safe spray cleaner
« Reply #7 on: May 07, 2024, 06:58:20 pm »
 

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Re: Foaming electronics-safe spray cleaner
« Reply #8 on: May 07, 2024, 07:23:15 pm »
The most active ingredient is just butoxyethanol (attachment) -- a glycol ether -- and the very same thing is in the flux removers previously mentioned.  They also contain a small amount of ethanol amine, which helps.  3M makes good stuff, but it is expensive.  Does an aerosol matter?
 

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Re: Foaming electronics-safe spray cleaner
« Reply #9 on: May 07, 2024, 07:51:17 pm »
The 90% water content concerns me more, especially with vintage electronics, I've got enough problems with corrosion/rust without adding more water, thankfully the Ambersil Amberclens is still made.

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