That looks interesting. I have once disassembled a laptop that obviously was used by a heavy smoker before, it was quite some work to get rid of that sticky residue and the smell. But it was still worth it, it was a Lenovo thinkpad witha 2nd gen i5 and 8GB of RAM for 30 Euros a few years ago. Isopropanol worked quite well to remove that residue.
A few months ago, I bought a nice used vacuum cleaner (Philips PowerPro Expert) on a marketplace for 40 Euros. I quickly noticed that it had a very strong smell of cat pee. I disassembled it, cleaned it thoroughly and bought new filters (for 20 Euros). I ended up with quite a nice vacuum cleaner for a total of 60 Euros.
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That looks interesting. I have once disassembled a laptop that obviously was used by a heavy smoker before, it was quite some work to get rid of that sticky residue and the smell. But it was still worth it, it was a Lenovo thinkpad witha 2nd gen i5 and 8GB of RAM for 30 Euros a few years ago. Isopropanol worked quite well to remove that residue.
A few months ago, I bought a nice used vacuum cleaner (Philips PowerPro Expert) on a marketplace for 40 Euros. I quickly noticed that it had a very strong smell of cat pee. I disassembled it, cleaned it thoroughly and bought new filters (for 20 Euros). I ended up with quite a nice vacuum cleaner for a total of 60 Euros.