Reddit reviews CAIG Laboratories D100L-25C Contact Cleaner

If anything, remove the CMOS Battery and the housing for the GPU and you can wash the boards with water. Immediately pat it dry and place in a 200*F 90*C degree oven or an oven set on Warm (WM) to help it dry quickly. (the GPU PCB and the Motherboard can be there and be safe.) Any higher and you're going to risk melting connectors. To be extra safe, wrap in some paper towels and set on the racks after the oven gets to temp. Turn off the oven and then let them sit there for about an hour or two.

From there you can use a corrosion removal spray or solution to try and undo any damage.

CRC contact cleaner - Plastic Safe.

Deoxit contact cleaner and corrosion removal.

Pen style Deoxit.

If not, you can no confidently say that you need to spend the money on the now more expensive GPU and Motherboard. Clean the contacts of the ram as well as the power supply connectors with rubbing alcohol just incase.



Edit: Reddit had a stroke when I used autocorrect and doubled a bunch of shit.

Since it's an all in one deal, does the tinnyneas only happen when playing vinyl? Or is it there with the tape deck and am/fm tuner? If so, your eq might be hosed. Sometimes a good squirt of deoxit will help.

If it's only the table, then probably the needle needs to be replaced. It's actually a fairly simple fix.

You can find parts here.

You can get deoxit in a needle applicator package. For tube sockets I usually just use the spray stuff and spray it onto a pointy medical type cotton swab. For really scrubbing the sockets or small preamp tube sockets you can use a small interdental brush and scrub the surfaces. When cleaning the sockets you don't want to just spray it on there, you need to scrub a bit to really clean the contacts. It can be fairly difficult to retension preamp tube sockets depending on the type of socket and if you have small enough tools. You should be sure the caps are discharged before you stick any metal objects near the tube sockets.

edit - /u/TheHarshCarpets already answered most of the rest of the questions, I'd just add that you don't need to bias the preamp tubes because they're cathode biased, the voltage difference between the cathode and plate/grid connections sets the bias. The power tubes on your amp are fixed bias, meaning the bias point is fixed by an external supply source. You need to adjust the fixed source to your tubes, but in a cathode biased tube it will adjust bias automatically.

You should ask santa for an ultrasonic cleaner from harbor freight. The large one. Pull out your entire wireharness and soak each cluster of connectors in a mix of LA Awesome and distilled water. They'll come out brand new. Swing it like an old sling shot to the the water out, then immediately hit the metal contacts inside the plastic connectors with deoxit d100L that'll keep the metal shiny. And soak the next chunk of connectors. If you need to rewrap the harness don't use electrical tape. Use self fusing silicon tape from harbor freight. I think its called super tape and its $4 for 10 feet x 1 inch. But it stretches so its more like 20+ feet. Don't over stretch it tho.

I'd probably spray and scrub the battery case with brake cleaner and a brush, then spray it with brake cleaner again.

Broken plastic connectors can be bought for cheap at 4into1, link is on the right side. You remove the metal connectors by using a very small flat head jeweler screw driver. Make sure all your connectors lock in together. Most people hate electronic work on bikes. But if you do it right its fun and easy.