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Originally Posted by cdub260
First dust it with a can of compressed air, then shoot it with some electronic cleaner.
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Everyone has their own method of cleaning the insides of fixtures/consoles/
etc.. Even though I used this method for some time, we had a gentleman in here servicing our gear that use to do component repair on battleships for 30+ years. A very nice older gentleman that eventually decided to retire with the stock he has been purchasing and saving for some time. He saw me do that with our compressor once and asked me if I realized what I was doing. I didn't understand at first, but then he said, "Where are you blowing all that dust?". I told him away/out of the fixture. He talked to me briefly about the small crevices and cracks that are on
circuit boards and mentioned that a decent amount of that dust is blowing into places your not going to be able to get it out of. He mentioned to me that if his superior on the ships would have saw him do that, he would be in for some extra (involuntary) work. So from that point on I decided to take our shop vac and suck them out as best as I could. And then even sometimes after that I will still blow it out, lol. But! None the less, he made a valid point to me and I suck as much of it out as I possibly can before attempting to blow it out.
Just remember, to each their own! It might not even be that big of a deal to most, it just made sense to me and it has stuck with me the past 2-3 years.